Join us: Dec. 19 Portland freelance writer holiday party
We may work alone, but at Christmastime we want a party just like everyone else. On Dec. 19, Portland writers are making merry at McMenamins. Be there.
WMTM follow-up: A Portland journalism incubator, and more
I spent most of WeMaketheMedia talking to other journalists about creating a network of small groups that could collaborate regularly, a Portland media incubator.
Last chance: attend WeMaketheMedia Nov. 21
At WeMaketheMedia conference on Saturday, Nov. 21, at UO’s Turnbull Center in Portland discussion will focus on creating a nonprofit news service in Oregon.
OPB looks at future of local journalism
Tune into OPB’s a.m. talk show, Think Outloud, Tuesday, Nov. 17, to hear me and other area reporters and editors discuss the future of local journalism.
Announcing Portland digital journalism monthly social hour
The first Digital Journalism social hour takes place Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., at the Lucky Lab pub in S.E. Portland.
WordCount Q&A: Steven Walling, wiki boy wonder
At 21, Steven Walling has accomplished what some writers twice his age are still trying to figure out: how to make a living as a digital freelancer. Despite his youth, Walling took a very old fashioned path to get where he is today. Fresh out of high school, he took whatever paid writing work he [...]
Can the techies save the news?
If you think reporters, editors, newspaper pundits, Sam Zell and the Sulzberger family are the only ones worried about the fate of the media business, you haven’t spent a Saturday morning with a room full of geeks. At last weekend’s BarCampPortland III meetup, the assembled developers, programmers and Web 2.0 entrepreneurs were just as concerned [...]
PDX City Club hosts April 17 panel on newspapers, democracy
If newspapers as we know them go away, who or what will act as democracy’s watchdog? That’s the question of the day as the newspaper industry transforms itself, and the subject of a panel discussion this Friday, April 17, at the Portland City Club, a non-profit public affairs and research organization. Panelists taking part in [...]
