Newsroom

It's been a busy week. I've tried to catch up with some of the great people I met at EIJ. Email, twitter and LinkedIn are great tools for keeping in contact with folks overseas.

Yesterday I had a meeting at work with people from SVT sports. They have a huge twitter and Facebook following and I hoped to learn some strategies. Unfortunately there was little or nothing I didn't already know. The trick is to implement digital thinking in the entire newsroom, but that's the hard part. However, if everyone thinks "digital first"    the problem is gone. And we're going to have to do that since every average joe in the country thinks digital first. As a very wise man told me "If we don't do it, they are gonna do it themselves. But I didn't say it was gonna be good."

On an unrelated subject, Obama has left Sweden to go to St Petersburg, and I'm watching The Newsroom - it's a great show!

What I haven't told you about

Tons of stuff went on during these few days in California that I haven't had time to write about. The SPJ president's installation banquet was a great event (even though the food was not very good, and you had to pay for the drinks, but besides that...)

The banquet was also an award ceremony and some great journalistic work was honored.

I was humble to join these colleagues for the meal. Lewis Kamb, News Tribune, and Carol Smith, InvestigateWest were awarded for their "Center of Detention” series. They exposed the gruesome truth about a refugee detention center in their home state. Many others also received awards, but this stuck with me because it's great journalistic work: true, thorough, important and shocking at the same time.

Read more about "Center of detention" here: http://www.invw.org/project/center-of-detention

Now I'm glad to be back home. Hopefully I'll be able to use my new skills soon. I go back to work on Saturday. 

See you on the flip side and thanks for reading!