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- By day, I'm a business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News.
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I was sitting at my desk at the San Jose Mercury News on Tuesday when I first heard about the Los Angeles earthquake through an inter-office message from a colleague. My next instinct was to click over to my
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A new multimedia newsroom in Brazil
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Hey, I need to call you sometime to talk to you about a possible story. What's a good time to call you?
The Times is going to go through a reorg in the next 4 months. I think we'll be stronger for it. But it's tough here just like it is everywhere else. We should catch up by phone one of these weekends. How are you?
He is a great guy, smart and, like you has a passion for his craft.
All the best, I'll be on the look out for the post
I blogged about your presentation and I have a commenter that asked a question about the jobs that will be part of the next newsroom. Whould you mind seeing if I answered it correctly and giving your more detailed and accurate answer? thanks
http://tinyurl.com/54ar3v
I have some thoughts that have been brewing since the Berkeley panel. Must get those up on the blog soon.
@ Rumbley: this is a perfect example of the kind tool you can jump right ot customizing instead of spending months and $thousands building from scratch. It's somewhat limited - but it's also FREE.
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