A few reasons why I love the Internets: making connections, seeing people succeed, and providing hope for the future. #

It’s good to see Jim Killam get response to his post about spending time in a newsroom that takes the “web-first” mentality seriously – that’s success as a blogger. #

It’s better seeing connections that can help college journalists. Meranda Watling, of MerandaWrites and a former Kent State student journalists, wrote that her newsroom expects online updates (please, read the whole comment), and provides some of the hope for the future of journalism: #

Nobody told me to do this. It is what we’re expected to do. Yes it’s more work (I ended up writing three stories for print, plus the one that went online that morning, plus packaging the data for a graphic for print and another, more detailed one, for online), and yes it means you’re on constant deadline and your work is never done. But it’s totally worth it to know that your community is relying on you to get the news to them in a timely manner and to still put it in perspective and offer context to help them understand. #

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