By now you’ve probably heard the reports that the City of Philadelphia is charging bloggers $300 to operate a website.
The story has been republished in the Washington Post, Mashable and other outlets after first being reported by my old employer, the Philadelphia Citypaper (though local message board Philadelphia Speaks wrote about this before anyone else). [...]
Author Archives: Blanda
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On Philly’s “blog tax”
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No, I didn’t see that story on Romenesko
Ever since I marked “journalism” on my college application I have been a frequent reader of the journalism media – the blogs and columns that cover the issues that surround journalism and the media. In fact, my first “real” job out of college made me one of those people who primarily cover the media.
My morning [...]
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Taking the leap: working on Technically Philly full time
At our presentation at BarCamp NewsInnovation this year, Technically Philly stood in front of the room and declared that it was the company’s goal to have one of the three co-founders work on the business full time.
As of last week, we can check that one off of our todo list.
Starting at the end of this month [...]
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The future of local media according to Technically Philly
I’ve been busy the past few months. Honest.
Brian James Kirk, Christopher Wink and I have been hard at work trying to do our part in making our ideas and best guesses about local media into a reality (with different rates of success, I’ll add).
I figured I’d shed a little bit of light about what we’ve [...]
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My thoughts on BCNI (and Philadelphia)
This started out as a post about BarCamp NewsInnovation.
But then C.W. Anderson helped me realize that BCNI Philly, the event I helped organize at Temple last Saturday, was just a (very) small piece of an evolving Philadelphia puzzle. Last week, after months of investigation, J-Lab released its recommendations to the William Penn Foundation. Then, shortly after [...]