Capitolbeat Conference Haikus 2 and 3

#2
The Liberty Bell.
City of Brotherly Love.
And lots of drinking.
#3
You think your state’s bad?
Come hear our horror stories!
Your pols? Amateurs!
I do b’lieve I feel a contest coming on. Anyone?
Maybe you’ve been to Capitolbeat… or maybe you just feel an inexplicable need to talk about what you do in cryptic 5-7-5 structure. Either way, knock yourself [...]

A Capitolbeat Conference Haiku.

Philly In August
Second through Fourth, What a Deal.
Be There or Be Square

http://www.capitolbeat.org/conference/home.htm

Never turn your back on an aggressive goose

Since this was picked up by Romenesko, I must share.. It’s the funniest memo intended to be serious I’ve ever read.

 

Columbus Dispatch memo re aggressive geeseFrom: Help Desk
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 2:06 PM
To: [Staff]@dispatch.com
Subject: Canadian Geese NestingTo: All employees at the Crosswind facility.
From: Joe Hackney
Re: Canadian Geese Nesting
Spring is upon us and our waterfowl [...]

What’s in your bag?

Greetings, all. I was out on an assignment recently with one of our local AP reporters and I am always amazed watching him. He’s a good reporter, and he’s also the most technologically tricked out reporters I’ve ever seen. He’s got a Treo, a little portable computer (I don’t even know what it’s called, but [...]

Philly fun

We guarantee you’ll leave Capitolbeat 2007 full of great tips and story ideas and reinvigorated about the best beat there is: the statehouse. But it won’t be all work and no play. There’s tons to do in Philly while you’re there August 2-4!
*See the Liberty Bell or check out the actual Watergate break-in tools, [...]

Job opening in Salt Lake

From journalismjobs.com:

Company:
The Salt Lake Tribune

Position:

Wanted: State Government Reporter

Location:

[...]

Listserv thread on Statehouse space

UPDATED 3/21/07 WITH HAWAII
I’m going to try and cut and paste all of the responses on the listserv to Papa Ray Long’s query about press space in statehouses around the land. Could be a useful archive for someone down the road.
Aaron
ORIGINAL MESSAGE
I’d like to do a quick survey of whether your states provide space [...]

Wow….

Barely 24 hours live, and already the true spirit of the Capitolbeat conference comes shining through.
Thanks, Aaron and Tiffany, for breaking this in. And to the rest of you, well, quit being shy already. It’s your space!
Laura

Reason #2

Reason #2 to come to Capitolbeat’s 2007 conference in Philly this summer:

Love it!
Aaron
(long-time listener/first-time blogger)

Is this thing on?

OK, so while everyone else on the board is going to use this space to tell you all the officially great reasons to come to Capitolbeat 2007 in beautiful Philadelphia, and to enter the contest — the only reporting contest in the land for Statehouse journalism — and all that, I’m going to give you [...]