Filed under: Journalism, Kevin, Travel | Tags: alaska, design, Kevin, mccain, newspapers, palin, wasilla
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- The moose at the hotel.
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- The hotel next to the hotel I stayed in.
Twice!
Sarah Palin is John McCain’s vice presidential nominee. She’s governor of Alaska. And, she was mayor of Wasilla (where she lives).
I was up in Wasilla (about 45 miles north of Anchorage) twice in 2006 working on a redesign of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (based in Wasilla). The first trip was during the Iditarod start, which was pretty sweet. The redesign was part of MG (Mansfield-Goldman) Redesign.
Anyway, here are a couple pics of the area. I seem to be missing my Iditarod photos (woof!), so will try to find them. But this place is SMALL. I’m more impressed Palin can survive up there, which has to be far more difficult than being mayor of the town.
-Kevin
Filed under: DNC, Journalism, Travel, ashley | Tags: ashley, denver, DNC, Journalism, multimedia, reporting
This morning, I met up with the Merc’s political reporter, Mary Anne Ostrom, to help her with some video to accompany a feature running in tomorrow’s paper. We headed down to The Big Tent, which is basically a two-story, 500-person base for bloggers (some DNC-credentialed, most not) sponsored by Google, complete with free burritos, beer, couches, massages and smoothies.
I was lucky enough to meet Craig Newmark (Founder, craigslist) and Markos Moulitsas (founder, The Daily Kos) among many others, and grab some video to go along with Mary Anne’s story.
Here’s the video:
I’m going to try to meet back up with her later this week to get inside the Pepsi Center and shoot more video. Uploaded some more shots of downtown Denver on Flickr as well.
Tonight was pretty difficult, design-wise. There was a lot of breaking news, including a clash between protesters and police right outside the Post building. I believe one or two Post staffers were pepper sprayed, and I think A/C was shut off to our building for a while to avoid sucking in the fumes.
Here’s a photo from the aftermath (you can see that the police had cornered the group at this point):
More tomorrow. I’m exhausted.
-Ashley
Filed under: DNC, Journalism, Travel, ashley | Tags: ashley dnc democratic national convention denver colorado journalism newspapers reporting multimedia
So I made it … finally! And yes, Mom, I am alive. Most of today was spent inside The Denver Post’s newsroom attempting to learn yet another new pagination system (Hermes, this time). I’m lucky enough to be working with a great group of people, and have already met many interesting folks such as a delegate from abroad on the rental car bus, and many of my Bay Area News Group colleagues who are also working at the Post this week.
Needless to say, the Post building is pretty amazing. It’s smack in the middle of Denver’s civic center area, and therefore in the middle of all the DNC action
Here’s a view from the balcony of the Post building (which also houses the Rocky Mountain News and Media News Group’s headquarters):
There’s one other photo on my stream from the protests this afternoon. I’ll have many more tomorrow, as I’m meeting up with the Merc’s Mary Anne Ostrom to help shoot some photos/video to go with her upcoming story.
So that’s all for tonight. I’m here at my fantastic host home, with the nicest kitty in the world sleeping on my feet.
By the way, follow www.twitter.com/politicswest for breaking DNC news round the clock.
-Ashley
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OK… In theory, we’re up and running. Ashley will take the lead with tales from the DNC…
