Author: Jack Lail

  • As seen on HBO …

    Mary Farrell, one of my favorite potters, says in her email newsletter: Those of you who’ll be tuned in to the “John Adams” miniseries, which begins on HBO this coming Sunday, may notice some familiar pottery!  For the filming of “John Adams”, Westmoore Pottery provided over 60 pieces of pottery to enhance the historical setting…

  • Over 70 snowmen captured in Nashville weather roundup

    In covering the snowstorm that hit everywhere in Tennessee but Knoxville on Saturday (OK, there was a little on the ground if you didn’t blink), I noticed that WKRN in Nashville totally rocked with user submitted photos. When I surfed through, the site was heralding 70 snowmen photos or over 400 weather pics. In a…

  • Leveraging what people are already doing

    There’s a point here: There’s so much opportunity on the web — it’s just a matter of seizing it. So how can the web make LESS work for journalists rather than more? Which weekend assignment would you have rather had? Write human interest feature on the storm from scratch, call up people to annoy them…