http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2007/11/10/i-am-a-journalist/ Thoughts from a technologist and journalist Wed, 09 May 2012 14:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2007/11/10/i-am-a-journalist/comment-page-1/#comment-1271 Who is “getting it” | News Videographer Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:07:15 +0000 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=77#comment-1271 [...] Pat Thornton seems to have taken a similar route: I was on AOL before there were buddy lists, and I used Netscape Composer and Geocites to post less-than-attractive Web sites. They weren’t very good, but I’ve always been fascinated with delivering content — any content really — to people and interacting with them. There is something fun and free about the Web…I became a journalist after I discovered the joys of the Internet. Thus, when I finished j-school and formally started my journalism career, I wasn’t held back by any preconceived notions of what journalism is or what it isn’t. [...] [...] Pat Thornton seems to have taken a similar route: I was on AOL before there were buddy lists, and I used Netscape Composer and Geocites to post less-than-attractive Web sites. They weren’t very good, but I’ve always been fascinated with delivering content — any content really — to people and interacting with them. There is something fun and free about the Web…I became a journalist after I discovered the joys of the Internet. Thus, when I finished j-school and formally started my journalism career, I wasn’t held back by any preconceived notions of what journalism is or what it isn’t. [...]

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