Recent Columns
Editor & Publisher: “‘Paywall’ to ‘Membership’ will require a massive culture shift for newspapers” by Matt DeRienzo
Editor & Publisher: “Local sports coverage needs to adapt to the modern newsroom” by Matt DeRienzo
Editor & Publisher: “The newspaper industry’s recruitment challenge” by Matt DeRienzo
Editor & Publisher: “The audience is your lifeline” by Matt DeRienzo
Medium: “A diverse local news ecosystem is emerging, and it doesn’t need ‘scale’ or venture capital” by Matt DeRienzo
Poynter: “Journalism companies are dead. Long live journalists” by Matt DeRienzo
Newsroom Leadership
Poynter: “Six questions about local independent news with LION’s Matt DeRienzo” by Kristen Hare
LION hires DeRienzo to expand leadership in local publishing
New Haven Independent: “Digital First helmsman leaving the Register” By Paul Bass
Media Nation: “Matt DeRienzo has left the building” By Dan Kennedy
Nieman Lab: “Newsrooms need HR specialists, not just technologists, in top leadership” By Matt DeRienzo
The Buttry Diary: “Happy trails to Matt DeRienzo, a true digital first leader” By Steve Buttry
CTNewsJunkie: “Paywall could diminish Hartford Courant’s watchdog role” By Matt DeRienzo
Nieman Lab: “In a rush to maintain profits, newspapers are abandoning the art of customer service” By Matt DeRienzo
Huffington Post: “The view from New Haven: What went wrong with Digital First” By Dan Kennedy
Poynter: “How many top newspaper editors are from digital backgrounds? Still darn few” By Rick Edmonds
Knight Digital Media Center: “When digital innovation is paramount, what does a publisher need from the newsroom?” By Michelle McLellan
NetNewsCheck: “At Digital First, what ‘unbolting’ really means” By Michael Depp
Poynter: “Plagiarism may be part of ‘weeding out’ at Journal Register” By Craig Silverman
Newsroom Diversity
APME: “Michael Days, New Haven Register selected as McGruder Award winners”
New Haven Register: “Register’s award for diversity leadership a sign of change” By Shahid Abdul-Karim
Maynard Institute: “Calling B.S. on excuses for failing on newsroom diversity” By Richard Prince
Open Journalism, Engagement and the Newsroom Cafe
New York Times: “Walk in, grab a muffin and watch a newspaper reinvent itself” By Peter Applebome
The Register Citizen: “What the Newsroom Cafe has taught us about improving local journalism” By Matt DeRienzo
Journalism.co.uk: “How a newsroom cafe helped boost digital ad revenue at The Register Citizen” By Rachel McAthy
American Journalism Review: “Wooing them with coffee: A newspaper tries to get closer to its audience with a news cafe” By Romy Zipken
Reynolds Journalism Institute: “Inside the engagement experiments at The Register Citizen” By Joy Mayer
Nieman Reports: “Everyone’s welcome at the Newsroom Cafe” By Emily Olson
The Associated Press: “Open Connecticut newsroom earns APME innovation award” By Michael Melia
Society of Professional Journalists: “Traditional media and citizen journalism: Time to curate, collaborate” By Matt DeRienzo
Columbia Journalism Review: “A fact check box on every page” By Craig Silverman
Knight Digital Media Center: “Journalism and curation: A small-town news organization leads the way” By Michelle McLellan
Enterprise Reporting and Breaking News
Inside Thunderdome: “Sandy Hook coverage shows scope of Digital First teamwork” By Steve Buttry
Digital Man: “Investing in investigative” By Jim Brady
CNBC: “Rape case unfolds on Twitter and divides a town” By Mary Noonan
Columbia Journalism Review: “The trouble with Torrington: A small-town paper calls out minors who bully a rape victim online. Is that fair game?” By Mariah Blake
Poynter: “Why asking and answering readers’ tough questions is helpful when covering rape” By Mallory Tenore
Inside Thunderdome: “Register Citizen wins public service award for coverage, commentary on rape/bullying case” By Steve Buttry
The Buttry Diary: “Sunshine Week project showed digital-first enterprise approach” By Steve Buttry
The Buttry Diary: “Tom Cleary explains DFM’s Connecticut breaking news team” By Steve Buttry
From Matt DeRienzo’s Connecticut Newsroom blog – ConnecticutNewsroom.com:
– “Connecticut police move toward transparency after Sunshine Week investigation”
– “Ask the Register offers readers direct access to editors”
– “Why we ran that photo of a New Haven man posing with stolen gun”
– “We’re making poverty a full-time reporting beat”
– “No, Republican-American, rape is not a ‘tryst‘”
– “Media needs better language for statutory rape”
– “Why The Register Citizen exposed the identities of student bullies”
– “Missing in Connecticut: Investigations editor focuses on police dysfunction and indifference”
– “The limitations of our 97 percent white newsroom”
– “Community engagement can reveal big gap in newsroom, audience perceptions”
– “Corrections, fact checking and accountability: Our new approach”
– “Why there’ll be no more ‘illegal aliens’ in our stories”
– “Hurricane coverage in the new news ecology”
– “Newsrooms join forces to prepare for Hurricane Irene”
Matt
Just read about your leaving DFM. Would like to meet if you’d be interested. My company is a next Gen journalism venture. Your talent would fit well with our group.
Regards,
Terry Kelliher
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