WellCommons recognized in Knight-Batten Awards

Posted on July 22, 2010 by jestevens

Because he summarized it so well, here’s the post that LJWorld.com assistant director of media strategies Jonathan Kealing put on WellCommons, the local health site that we officially launched in April, a couple of days ago: WellCommons was honored Monday as a “notable entry” in the annual Knight-Batten Awards competition. Though WellCommons wasn’t among the [...]

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Talkin’ about….WellCommons

Posted on June 6, 2010 by jestevens

For the last year, I’ve been head-down in development. My (poor neglected) blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts have seen few words, photos, graphs or video. However, now my head’s finally up, and it’s time to talk about what much of that last year has been about: WellCommons, the new local health site that we at [...]

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Of News Branding and a Journalism Mensch

Posted on October 6, 2008 by jestevens

Last week NPR Science Editor Anne Gudenkauf and I were chatting about journalism’s future. The occasion was the first week of NPR’s third pilot workshop/immersion into Webcentric journalism. Most of the science desk is taking time off from their regular duties for five weeks. [I wish other mainstream jurno organizations would take such an organized [...]

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