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NEast Philly: West Frankford Town Watch profile
Phil Pappas, of West Frankford Town Watch, investigating an alarm near Comly and Bustleton on early Saturday morning July 10. Click to enlarge. It's my photo. Earlier this month, I went on a ride-along...
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Philadelphia Enterprise Reporting Fund awards grants to Technically Philly...
I’m proud to say that I’ll have a small part in three of the fourteen inaugural reporting projects funded by the Philadelphia Enterprise Reporting Fund, as announced Tuesday. Funded by the William...
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Someone else is doing a better job of tracking community news sites
About a year ago, I hadn’t come across a good list of someone trying to track all of the community news sites worth covering. So I did so myself. I only recently come across someone doing a much better...
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My 2011 Professional Resolutions
Yes, I’m doing a resolutions post. If for no other reason than to hold myself accountable. Looking at last year’s professional goals, which were much more about staying afloat financially, I think...
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Focus: my goal for 2011; Growth: my experience in 2010
About a year ago, in December 2009, I was sitting in my living room with two friends. I had no heat, two plastic chairs and a coffee table. I was chasing down the last of that year’s freelancing...
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Make your Facebook page better
Facebook pushes traffic and helps build an online community. We’re over that. Joining Facebook and learning lessons from it is in the distant past. It’s time to have that next conversation. I’m...
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NEast Philly: traffic, data and graphs on a hyperlocal news site
All-time referral traffic to NEastPhilly.com, as reported by Google Analytics on March 3, 2012. Quietly last fall, NEastPhilly.com, the hyperlocal news site for Northeast Philadelphia, marked three...
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News Frontier Database from Columbia Journalism Review: Technically Philly...
The Columbia Journalism Review launched this year its News Frontier Database, meant to be a curated directory of independent online news organizations, included the two niche sites on which I...
View ArticleDistrict 172: John Perzel coverage for NEast Philly, funded by JLab
Though I took part in three of 14 JLab-funded Philadelphia Enterprise Reporting Fund projects, first announced here last fall, I led one of them. For Northeast Philadelphia hyperlocal NEast Philly, I...
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NEast Philly: everything I learned by working on this now-closed hyperlocal...
The hyperlocal news site NEastPhilly.com that served Northeast Philadelphia for five years stopped publishing in December and was closed by founder Shannon McDonald. During that time, I helped her with...
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