Mr. Mark Briggs

On October 11, 2007 we had the privilege of having Mark Briggs come down from The Tacoma News and speak to us about his accomplishments to the paper and in general, about their website, and paper.

Mr. Briggs is the editor of the news tribune.com; he has worked in new media for the paper since 2000. Two years ago he started training classes for blogs, videos, the class was called how to be digital. He takes much credit for a co-worker that received a job after from ESPN for writing blogs about the Seattle Seahawks. Mark gave him the job to do to on the side, and sure enough he enjoyed every minute of it. Theses blogs and plenty more can be seen online at their website.

Besides the blogs, you are able to read the news that is posted in the original paper. Mr. Brigg mentioned that he feels that the newspaper onlining is behind, so there at the tribune they try new things out. For example they have a reported that never comes into the building unless told to do so. He or she goes out and reports what the people think right off the street and he post what he thinks may be a reasonable topic from his laptop, straight to the blog/website. Mark mentioned as well that it is good to have a degree in journalism, if you want to work for the company, then went out and hired a UWT student that did an internship with them. Mark says he didn’t know how the others would react to him, or if they would say anything to him, not knowing what his capabilities are. But all turned well for the fellow and the Tribune. Using the Tribune online is very beneficial to me, you can connect to different sites from theirs, highlight key information, and most of all don’t have to throw any bundles away, unless you print it out lol.

I learned quite a bit from Mr. Briggs about the Tribune. Have you guys looked up his book getting a clear summary? I might just do that today!!!!!