The team approach
As we move forward with the newsroom’s reorganization and start to get new multimedia journalists hired, there will be another change – how the newsroom is actually organized. Previously, we...
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Independence and cooperation
My final blog post, related to the reorganization of the newsroom, is about our relationship with The Tennessean. The rumor mill is always working and there are a lot of folks who think we are, or...
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Coverage of the checkpoint
On Friday, July 5, I was at home enjoying a day off when the phone calls and emails started. It seemed a video taken at a DUI checkpoint in Rutherford County, claiming Rutherford County deputies had...
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The newspaper of tomorrow
As I look around and see the changes that are descending on the industry at the speed of, oh, roughly light, it naturally makes me wonder what the DNJ will look like in five years, ten years, or 20...
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A bit of family, a bit of faith
Prior to my arrival at The DNJ, my predecessor, Jimmy Hart, spent quite a lot of time on a content evolution plan. The goal was to identify key topics to the community – passion topics – and organize...
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When you can’t win for losing
I was talking over dinner with my wife about Sonny Gray, the guy from Smyrna who is now pitching for the Oakland Athletics. His first start was not a successful effort. The print headline was “Sonny...
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MTSU Sports and the Mobile App
Stephen Shirley got a little cranky on Twitter the other day, complaining about our mobile app. And rightfully so. This, to me, is the key tweet: As a high volume mobile user, I just wanted @dnj_com...
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On the third, I provided you with some numbers and thought I’d start doing that weekly. So by the numbers from Monday, Sept. 16 through Sunday Sept. 22: DNJ staff wrote 33 local stories. DNJ staff...
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Why we ran the story: Teacher’s DUI
Every once in a while we’ll run a story in The Daily News Journal that sets a portion of the community against us. A recent one was our report on a local teacher who received a DUI. The story was...
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By the numbers: October 7
First a bit about Monday Some readers may have noticed that the Monday paper is four pages smaller than normal. This is due to the elimination of what we call “house ads.” These are advertisements in...
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