Electric Fishwrap

Several journalism blogs have been buzzing about the latest social networking tool for journalists interested in multimedia: Wired Journalists. Of course I joined a few discussion groups after signing up. We’ll see how useful it is in the coming months.

Reporters at my paper spent a few grueling months last year looking into how global warming will impact our small corner of the world. The result was the Skagit Warming, an eight-part series (my contribution here).

The series won first place in the Pioneer Newspapers’ annual Recognizing Excellence award. I love group projects, so it was a lot of fun diving into this issue. My only regret is I didn’t produce multimedia for this project. I can’t complain, though, because right after I had concluded the reporting on this series, the editors started having me do audio for other stories I worked on. We’ll be ready for the next project.

Thank you to Meranda Watling for telling me the commenting was broken on my site. I’ve hopefully fixed it now and people should be able to post something without the hassle of registration. Time for me to catch up on my backed-up topics!