Category: Journalism
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Storytelling apps to try from ONA13
As part of the UGA ONA group that attended the Online News Association conference in Atlanta this past week, we all covered a few sessions. I really enjoyed this one about new storytelling apps that are free and easy. Posting here for my benefit, but feel free to peruse and use as well. Innovative…
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ONA13 techs me up, I’m zooming through Codecademy
The Online News Association 2013 conference in Atlanta really hammered the idea I’ve been thinking for some time — I need to freaking know how to code. So I came home Saturday and immediately started working on Codecademy. I’ve completed the HTML and CSS sections (refreshing what I learned a few years ago) and am…
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Updating the site, new resume and clips
Keeping a portfolio site is always the never-ending task, isn’t it? Well, here we go. Once again. There’s a wealth of newness, and I’ll add more soon: Georgia (EMC) Magazine from July Lake Oconee Living from July Southern Distinction from June 13th District site from June 36 Hours in Prague site from June And of…
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Designed 13th District site
This is also late, but I’m posting it. I helped to design the site for Grady’s Academy this year. The theme was Hunger Games, get it? Once again, I was web wrangler and the students produced the content. Good stuff for a group of high schoolers thrown together on campus for a week.
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Designed 36 Hours in Prague site
The update is late, but check it out if you want to see what we were up to in Prague. I was the webmaster and WordPress wrangler for this one. The students produced all the content, and I’m so proud!
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Catcher in the Rye = serial killer
When I picked up Mein Kampf, the investigator also asked if I had ever read Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I haven’t, but it is most definitely on my reading list for this summer. I’ve been meaning to read it for years now. “15 out of 18 serial killers own the book, you…
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Mein Kampf at a police station
When I went to the Newnan Police Department yesterday to look for crime and story ideas, I found Mein Kampf on my favorite detective’s bookshelf. As I was glancing at the books on the shelf, I laughed aloud. “Shooting, How to Talk to Your Teens about Drinking, and Mein Kampf. Nice.” He admitted that the…
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Famous in Coweta County?
So before I went to the office today I walked to the local coffee shop down the street. A man sitting on a random bench shouted out, “Hey do you work at the paper?” Me–“Uh…yeah.” Him–“Yeah, I thought so. I was sitting here thinking, ‘Hey, that looks like the girl who’s interning at the paper…
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Undercover police work?
Okay so I went to the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office yesterday with the county crime and courts reporter and visited a few people I knew from last year. I’m really surprised that exciting crimes are down in the county right now… 🙂 It’s all DUIs and minor marijuana charges. Where are the prostitution spas and…
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The life of a young journalist
Okay after a few months of letting the blog die, I think I will pick it back up again. The entries before these were pretty sad, so let’s see if I can find a niche and hold on to it. I’m interning at the local newspaper in Newnan, Ga., this summer, and I run across…
Carolyn Crist 