On his blog, Dan Oshinsky describes himself as “a reporter … entrepreneur, lover of start-ups … frequent troublemaker and builder of awesome stuff.” But his main interest is telling stories. Oshinsky’s current focus is Stry.us, a start-up that grew out of a reporting project through his work as a Reynolds Fellow at the University of…
#6 – 140Elect’s Zach Green on social media’s influence in the election
Zach Green has been closely following the 2012 presidential campaign. He’s the co-founder of 140Elect.com, a company that provides social media strategies for political campaigns. He says in this election cycle the battle for the White House will be fought in the Twitterverse. “A lot of the national debate happens on Twitter,” Green said. “So,…
#5 – Steve Buttry, Digital First Media, Part 2
Steve Buttry, the community engagement editor with Digital First Media, was writing on his blog as far back as 2009 about the importance of newspapers adopting a mobile first outlook. “If I were to update now,” Buttry said, “I would say you need a digital approach that is device flexible. That it’s going to work…
#4 – Steve Buttry, Digital First Media, Part 1
When you talk about digital-first newsrooms, one of the first names that’ll come up is Steve Buttry’s. Buttry is currently the director of community engagement and social media for Digital First Media newsroom at the Journal Register Company, which has daily and weekly newspapers in nearly 1,000 communities in 10 states. “Clearly there’s a demand…
#3 – Pam Maples & Anthony Moor, ONA Conference co-chairs
The Online News Association’s annual conference has been a mirror to the shifts and tremors of the journalism industry meeting the Internet. In 2002, the few hundred people who attended the conference learned about transforming the newsroom with “really cool Flash applications,” said ONA 2012 co-chair Anthony Moor. That interest in newsroom transformation is still…
#2: Ethan Klapper, Huffington Post
Ethan Klapper is a political and social media junkie. So, with the 2012 presidential election heating up, the Rye, N.Y., native is in the thick of things as Huffington Post’s social media editor for politics. “What goes out on social media is really becoming part of the story itself,” Klapper said. “And I do sincerely…