(Note to the hand-wringers: It’s the newspaper industry that is on the endangered-species list, not journalism itself, which merely is undergoing a transformation).
Author: Glenn Nelson
Based in Seattle, Wash., within three hours of three national parks, Glenn Nelson is the founder and publisher of The Trail Posse, which documents and encourages diversity and inclusion in the outdoors. He has won several national awards for his writing, photography and Web publishing. A graduate of Seattle University and Columbia University, he was born in Japan and started his career at The Seattle Times. He later founded HoopGurlz.com (now at ESPN), which covered girl’s basketball and college prospects nationally, and helped found Scout.com, a network of college and pro sports websites. Nelson is the primary author of a teen book about the NBA, has been published in numerous magazines and book collections, had a photo in a Smithsonian exhibit, and has been profiled by NPR.
The New American
When you tell stories for a living long enough, you learn that you almost never get the perfect conditions in which to spin the most compelling yarns.
What’s Black and White and …
One of the “problems” with being a photographer, which I (finally) own up to being, is that one sees pictures everywhere.
Newspapers, murder-suicides and the Kindle 2
I think the same thing about the massively unenlightened newspaper executives around the country. They have, after all, lined up time, technology and new ideas, and shot them in the head. Now, one by one, they are swallowing the poison -- gutting their staffs and their products -- that makes the death of newspapers almost a fait accompli.
The Buzz: Glenn Nelson 