Author: Jack Lail

  • Social media guides for journalists

    A quick list of social media guides for journalists from former Knoxville resident and University of Tennessee jounalism teacher Bob Stepno.

  • John Temple on being an organizational man

    Former Rocky Mountain News Editor John Temple reflects and looks forward. So I charted a different course, ending up inside an old and large organization where I built a life that supported my family and provided me great satisfaction. Then came last fall’s economic collapse. The Rocky Mountain News, where I had worked for 17…

  • A stranger than fiction story line that’s true

    I go out of town for a couple of days and return to the surreal. Liberal Randy Neal and conservative Brian Hornback united in defending a blogger for the News Sentinel, a media company neither has been shy about calling out when they’ve felt moved to do so. And that happens with some regularity. (Hornback…