A breaking news Google Map

 
Last Sunday, Spokane, Wash., received a record 12 inches of snowfall. It paralyzed the city. What’s an online developer to do when faced with a breaking news event that’s spread out over a large region? If you’re Ryan Pitts, online director with my newspaper’s website Spokesmanreview.com, you whip up a Google Map and solicit viewers to send in their snow [...]

The Social Networking Universe and why it is important for the survival of newspapers

 
 
 
When I get in front of a crowd, I become a whole different person. I’m kind of shy in real life, but I explode with passion when I get to talk about things that I believe are important, like multimedia. 
Today was a multimedia training day at The Spokesman-Review. A photographer, two web producers and two mobile journalists [...]