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Another Month, Another Job
Yes it’s true, I am leaving my current position as Lead Web Developer at The Journal Register Company and joining the highly creative team at Klunk & Millan Advertising Agency.
I was only at JRC for 2 months and I feel bad about leaving so soon. I had some goals I wanted to accomplish when I first got there but sometimes unplanned events are the best events of your life.
My commute will be cut from 3+ hours a day to 40 minutes. That means my round-trip 100 mile journey a day will be about 38 miles. That is a plus. That is not the main reason I decided to leave but it sure didn’t hurt any.
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Print to Digital – Change Resistant
So I jumped back into the online news world and it has delightfully brought back all these grandiose ideas, things I wanted to try when I left this business, things I thought would work, etc. Little did I know a lot of folks still in 2010 are having trouble letting go.
It doesn’t help that the company I now work for, Journal Register Company, had a corporate mandate not too long ago that prohibited its newsrooms to post any news that wasn’t at least two days old and a max of four stories a day (all from what I’ve been told). This is absurd to me. Think it was hard to get print-born folks to transform before, try to now break them from a previous communist corporate parent that would burn you to the ground if you disobeyed its laws.
Luckily JRC signed on John Paton as their CEO and put Jeff Jarvis on the board, well maybe not put, he was probably asked. Paton is all about good journalism and digital first. Jarvis is well, Jarvis. If you don’t know anything about him, Google him; he makes sense, and says things that some of us ‘younger’ online news folks have been saying for years. He makes sense, he is all about trying new things and empowering not just employees but your community. Makes sense.
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Departing from Viddler
After about 10 months at the internet start-up Viddler, I have decided to move on to something that better suits me. I am moving back into the media business with a company named Journal Register Company. I am very excited for this transition and to get back to something I never knew I enjoyed so much until I left it, the news.
Viddler is full of great people, smart people and they have developed a great product and I have no doubts they will be around for years. Personally, it just wasn’t fulfilling. I didn’t find myself growing like I would have liked to, really pushing the envelope of what I know I am capable of. Some of this is my fault, just lack of passion for this particular business; but all-in-all I am extremely happy that I took the chance to try something new and meet a lot of great people along the way. My last day at Viddler with be March 12th and I start JRC on the 15th.
This is actually quite comical because about 6 years ago I started at Tribune Company on March 15th as well. Must be something magical about this date. Maybe it’s destiny, uh, maybe not; just coincidence?
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