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| − | Conover blogs at Xark! <http://xark.typepad.com> , e-mails from dan@danconover.com and is | + | *[http://conovermedia.blogspot.com/2008/03/old-idea-has-new-future.html Using the iPhone to read related stories identified in the print paper] |
| + | *[http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/news-futures-a-whats-next-overview.html News Futures: What's next?] | ||
| + | *[http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/my-final-newspa.html "My Final Newspaper Article"] | ||
| + | *[http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/10/10-reasons-why.html Reasons Newspapers Won't Reinvent News] | ||
| + | *[http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/12/21st_century_tr.html 21st Century Trust ... The Techno-Geek Way] | ||
| + | *[http://conovermedia.blogspot.com/2006/02/journalism-from-software-perspective.html Journalism From a Software Perspective] | ||
| + | *[http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/coordinates-20.html Coordinates and Foundations] | ||
| + | *[http://conovermedia.blogspot.com/2008/02/foundations-of-21st-century-journalism.html Foundations of of 21st Century Journalism] (written for the journalism students | ||
| + | and faculty at the University of Mississippi) | ||
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| + | Conover blogs at Xark! <http://xark.typepad.com> , e-mails from dan@danconover.com and is [http://twitter.com/xarker [ @Xarker] on Twitter. | ||
Revision as of 00:47, 17 May 2009
Dan Conover is a writer and filmmaker who spent 20 years in the newspaper business, 14 of them at the daily paper in Charleston, SC. His newspaper career ended with a buyout in 2008.
Along the way he worked as a pasteup clerk, a reporter, a page designer, a political editor, a city editor (twice), an illustrator, a cartoonist, a puzzlemaker, a web director, a blogger, a metro columnist, a features writer and a web video guy. He was named South Carolina's Journalist of the Year in 2005.
Conover hand-coded his first web page on Geocities in 1994 and began studying the digital revolution's effects on traditional media companies in 2004.
Some of his ideas:
- Using the iPhone to read related stories identified in the print paper
- News Futures: What's next?
- "My Final Newspaper Article"
- Reasons Newspapers Won't Reinvent News
- 21st Century Trust ... The Techno-Geek Way
- Journalism From a Software Perspective
- Coordinates and Foundations
- Foundations of of 21st Century Journalism (written for the journalism students
and faculty at the University of Mississippi)
Conover blogs at Xark! <http://xark.typepad.com> , e-mails from dan@danconover.com and is [ @Xarker on Twitter.
