Oregon Business pioneers real-time regional business news

07 July 2010 Categories: Nozzl Media's Blog

Oregon Business today becomes the latest member of the Nozzl Media family.
Those who have followed the venerable publication over the past three decades have probably noticed its evolution into an elegantly designed, cutting-edge website and daily e-mail newsletter, in addition to the print edition. That’s no accident. Editor Robin Doussard and her merry band of [...]

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You needn’t be a wonk to be fascinated by real-time window on politics

12 June 2010 Categories: Nozzl Media's Blog

Today, the last day of the Washington Republican Party’s convention in Vancouver, Wash., politicos inside the meeting and out were buzzing. Among the topics that were bubbling up, come lunchtime:

A speech last night by nationally renowned conservative blogger Michelle Malkin;
An excursion yesterday by U.S. Senate candidate Clint Didier to see Sarah Palin;
An online poll by [...]

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Brian Hendrickson, super man or Superman?

11 June 2010 Categories: Nozzl Media's Blog

Brian Hendrickson, our lead developer, is known for his calmness under pressure. This morning, the fates decided they would push him to the limit to see if he would break.
Score: Brian, 1. Fates, 0.
Less than 24 hours after The Columbian, The Lund Report and ParkroseGateway.com went live with Nozzl real-time streams, a key server in [...]

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The Columbian launches daily journalism’s first real-time hyperlocal news streams

10 June 2010 Categories: Nozzl Media's Blog

The Columbian, Southwest Washington’s largest daily newspaper, today launched online services that will deliver unprecedented up-to-the-minute community news about Clark County, Wash., as well as news about Washington’s Third Congressional District and statewide politics.
The service, powered by Nozzl Media of Portland, will stream news items, public records and social-media conversations onto the daily newspaper’s website (www.columbian.com) [...]

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Streaming Oregon health-care news in real time

09 June 2010 Categories: Nozzl Media's Blog

I’ve known Portland health journalist Diane Lund-Muzikant since the go-go ’80s. We met when I was editor of the Portland Business Journal and she was launching a statewide health-industry non-profit organization and newsletter called the Oregon Health Forum and Oregon Health News. In those days, paper was king, the Internet was mostly for academicians and [...]

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Nozzl Media’s happy one-month Facebook anniversary

21 May 2010 Categories: Nozzl Media's Blog

We launched our Nozzl Media Facebook page about a month ago, and it’s interesting to see how it has evolved in terms of demographics and interactions.
After a rocket-like launch on April 19, our total number of fans has continued to rise, reaching 97 as of today. Of those 97, the vast majority — 91 — [...]

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The real reason the iPad will save print journalism

13 May 2010 Categories: Nozzl Media's Blog

Once upon a time, desktop computers ruled the Earth. They sat on a desk like a typewriter. They used a keyboard like a typewriter. They did word-processing … like a typewriter.
Over the years, desktop PCs morphed into workstations, laptops, netbooks and pocket PCs. They broadened their functions from word-processing to spreadsheets, slide presentations, imaging, Web-browsing, [...]

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Top editor joins Nozzl Media advisory board

04 May 2010 Categories: Nozzl Media's Blog

One of the nation’s most respected newspaper editors, Richard Oppel, has joined the advisory board of Nozzl Media Inc.
The former Marine began his journalism career at the Tampa Tribune. After working for the Associated Press and the Detroit Free Press, he became executive editor of the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat in 1977. The following year, he [...]

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Leading news technologist joins Nozzl Media

03 May 2010 Categories: Nozzl Media's Blog

One of the Northwest’s leading news technologists has joined the Nozzl Media team.
John Hamlin, who retired in December as The Oregonian’s newsroom technology director, is now working harder than ever after we threw him into the deep end of the Nozzl development pool.
Truth be known, John was flunking retirement. Though he loves playing bridge and [...]

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The Columbian pioneers real-time local news

20 April 2010 Categories: Nozzl Media's Blog

This month, The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., became perhaps the first newspaper in the world to stream local news in real time.
It’s a modest, yet ambitious, start: a web app that updates every time a news source, blog or Portland-area Twitter user posts a story or a comment about the local pro basketball team, the Portland [...]

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