For a kid who grew up in Kansas with beef, basketball and Bob Dole, things like boxing and UFC are a little out there for me. But I have to admit that I enjoy them. And it’s obvious that a whole lot of lasvegassun.com readers love them, as well.
As I [...]
Our team has always been known for building lots and lots of databases. Or at least we get asked about them a lot.
Though we’re probably best known for our sports databases, some of my favorites from the past have been things like our restaurant health-inspection reports and state legislature voting [...]
When I originally started writing this blog entry, I typed “U2 comes to the desert: Covering a mega-concert via new media” as the headline in the WordPress title box. And that’s what this post was going to be about — how John Katsilometes covered U2’s recent concert in Las [...]
Halloween in Las Vegas is pretty much exactly what you would expect it to be — both the relative normalcy of the haunted holiday for the locals who live here and the overkill craziness that happens on the Strip.
Sarah Feldberg helped lead our team’s coverage of the edgier [...]
I’ve started and stopped writing probably five or six blogs over the last few months, but just couldn’t find the time or focus to finish them. Lots of reasons for that, but the bottom line is that I sure wish I would have.
I have always prided myself on being a [...]
I have always had a soft spot in my heart for high school football.
Back in Kansas, I covered the Osage City Indians for my high school newspaper, The Pow Wow. Yes, it’s still called that, and no, it doesn’t have a proper Web site.
I [...]
This is basically a re-post of a blog that I wrote last Spring, and the reason for the re-post is simple: We’re looking for a few talented interns to join our team for the Fall and through the Winter.
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Greenspun Interactive is looking for interns who want to get real-world, practical [...]
When our team at Greenspun Interactive was trying to figure out our sports strategy for the then-very-new Las Vegas Sun website in the summer of 2008, we knew we were dealing with a much different market than we had at previous newspapers.
But one thing was clear: Former kusports.com editor [...]
This past week, the crew at 702.tv produced two videos (well, they produced a ton of videos, but two I wanted to share on my blog) that I think will interest folks outside of Las Vegas.
It seems like for as long as I can remember people think our team has [...]
Shortly after our team had met Brian Greenspun, the Las Vegas Sun president and editor asked us if we could please work with him to figure out a way to inform those who didn’t want to be informed, or who didn’t even know they needed to be informed.
It was one [...]
Like most newspapers and local news websites, the Las Vegas Sun and lasvegassun.com are more than a little challenged when it comes to marketing.
And because of our unique JOA here in Las Vegas, running lots of “house ads” in our print product isn’t the best option for us. (Not that [...]
Many baseball players dream of hitting a walk-off home run to win the World Series. Some doctors dream of curing cancer. And my guess is there are at least few journalists who dream of winning a Pulitzer Prize.
Certainly journalists at the Las Vegas Sun shared those dreams, though they wouldn’t [...]
UPDATE: We are no longer accepting applications for these positions. We are very grateful for the almost overwhelming interest/response.
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I know I am more than a little biased in regards to this subject, but I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb when I say the Las Vegas [...]
This is basically identical to an entry I posted back in September when the SND conference was in town, but here goes …
If you are coming to Las Vegas this week for the NAA’s mediaXchange conference and would like to come see what we’re up to over at the Las [...]
It looks like 2009 will be a game-changing year for local news organizations around the nation.
The Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Interactive are going into the new year with our eyes wide open, and — as one of the most innovative publishers I ever worked for used to say — [...]
When it comes to content that works really well on the Internet, or at least that drives a lot of pageviews, I’ve always thought it comes down to the Five Ps:
* Passions — People go to the web to find out more about the things they love. Whether they love [...]
My friends, colleagues, anyone who has ever visited my office at either Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive or at Greenspun Interactive, and those who have heard me speak at conferences, and even casual acquaintances, usually figure out that I love William Allen White.
I probably mention his name and his work in way [...]
A couple of weeks ago as I was visiting several of the news-industry websites that I wanted to catch up on, I saw that Mindy McAdams had posted an entry about Colin Mulvany’s great post on “quality versus quantity” in newspaper video.
Mulvaney’s blog on this subject is ass-kicking [...]
One of the Las Vegas Sun’s goals is to build new-media content that focuses on people’s passions — thereby creating big traffic, thereby creating the perfect environment for Chris Jennewein’s team to build a successful business that supports the journalism.
BTW — Chris is still hiring if you’d like to [...]
I’m more and more convinced every day that the Las Vegas Sun is the most interesting local newspaper in the nation — both to read and to work at.
The Sun’s print edition — because of a very unique JOA with the other newspaper in town — doesn’t really [...]
If you are coming to Las Vegas for either the SND or APME conferences this week and would like to come see what we’re up to over at the Las Vegas Sun, please drop me a line.
We’re more than happy to show you around our new facilities [...]
Not a day goes by that I don’t hear from a colleague somewhere across the planet who basically says: “You’re in Vegas now? But it’s so damn hot there!”
Depending on my mood, I usually say it was hot in Kansas, and definitely more humid in Naples, but that I’m really [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts over the last few months. Things have been crazy busy and crazy cool here at the Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Interactive, and my attention has been on the tasks at hand for our team … as well as moving the Curley family to [...]
When I woke up Wednesday morning in sunny Las Vegas, I knew there was a pretty good chance there would be a story in the Wall Street Journal about our team’s work on LoudounExtra.com.
I first read the story on my mobile-phone’s browser. I didn’t even see the article’s headline; I [...]
… and in just a few weeks, I’m still going to join several of my friends from Kansas, Florida and Ohio in the Nevada news oasis known as the Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Media Group.
I’ve blogged about the great work being done at the Las Vegas Sun on [...]
Over the last week or so, there has been a really interesting discussion on the Poynter online news listserv about local news, which has bopped all over the place from discussing what is local news to does anyone really care about local news? And, as the listserv’s recent activity proves, [...]
On Friday, I was having a late lunch with a colleague from the business/advertising side of The Washington Post. We were talking about how our company’s hyper-local strategies should evolve. It was a great conversation that I wish could have lasted all day.
As we were talking/eating, I noticed the [...]
The latest issue of the Harvard Nieman Reports addresses the question: “Is Local News the Answer?”
I was asked several months ago by Reports editor Melissa Ludtke if I would write about LoudounExtra.com for the edition.
I received a copy of the latest issue in the mail before Christmas, but [...]
First off, let me apologize for the lack of updates to my site.
For the last few months, things have been hopping around the Curley household and at the washingtonpost.com offices, and I haven’t had a lot of extra time. And when I have had some time, I’ve been going [...]
If you haven’t read about the things the San Jose Mercury News is doing to try to make itself more relevant to readers, you should.
It’s fascinating. And, I know some of my friends might blow milk through their noses at this next comment, but I find it very admirable.
Here’s a [...]
About ten days ago, I started writing a blog post about my updated thoughts on recent J-School grads and what skills I think aspiring journalists should be acquiring.
I promise I’ll finish that badboy soon (mostly because I’ve already got a ton of work in it), but I wanted to comment [...]
Our company’s chairman, Don Graham, is probably as big of a Facebook fan as you will find.
Though he’s only had a Facebook account since probably July or August of this year, the guy knows more about how the site works (and more importantly, what it means) than probably [...]
This week, Washington D.C. is playing host to the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers annual conference.
I will be speaking at this conference on Thursday. This is, of course, the perfect time for a post about the state of journalism education.
But not today. I’ll try to post that blog later this [...]
A few weeks ago, I did a phone interview with Northwestern University’s Media Management Center for a report that is planned to be released publicly a little later this week.
The report (which is now available for download as a PDF) is called “Running While the Earth Shakes: Creating an [...]
