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Link: iPad 3 rumor roundup: What will it be?
Most tech blogs like to write about every single rumor as it stumbles across the web. As CNet and a few others did, I rounded up the rumors for anxious tech readers.
The round-up was also a good way for potential iPad buyers and sellers to think about what is most likely to be included – in case they wanted to buy or sell ahead of the Apple announcement. Also, the links throughout help readers to find out more about each specific rumor.
Posted in Clips, Reporting, Web.
– February 23, 2012
Link: Chapman law professor dies suddenly
Link: Katherine Darmer remembered fondly
Link: Law professor’s death probed as suicide
Link: Vigil honors Chapman Law’s Katherine Darmer
I was working a weekend reporting shift when I was forwarded an email announcing the death of a beloved Chapman law school professor. I wrote an obituary about her, her work and the impact she had on others’ lives. Then, I started and continued updating a collection of memory’s about Darmer that streamed in after people read my story. Due to high reader interest in the story, I continued reporting on Darmer during the week and posted that it was probed, and later confirmed, a suicide and I posted that a vigil was planned and then followed up with photos from the vigil.
Posted in Breaking News, Clips, Narratives, Reporting.
– February 18, 2012
Link: O.C. remembers Steve Jobs
I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just gotten home from work and was walking my beagle. I got a text from my husband who asked if I knew. “Know what?” I asked. And then he told me that Steve Jobs had died. I still couldn’t believe the news. I read through all the text messages and push notifications and emails I’d received as news alerts. I was in disbelief.
As our tech reporter worked up the main story, I worked on two Storifys as sidebars. The first one was on Orange County people reacting on Twitter to the news. The other I published the next day – a Storify of the exact words of the famous “Think Different” campaign by Apple that also speaks to Jobs’ thinking that shaped Apple and everyone who uses the company’s products.
Posted in Clips, Reporting, Social.
– October 5, 2011
Sonya (Smith) Quick is a graphics reporter at the Orange County Register.