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Inside the Baltimore Business Journal

James Levin of the American Journalism Review interviewed Baltimore Business Journal managing editor Ryan Sharrow about the newspaper’s operations.

Here is an excerpt:

AJR: Please describe any new websites (especially ones aimed at niche audiences) that your news organization has started in the last two years.

Sharrow:  We’ve launched a few blogs over the past few years – one about cybersecurity and technology called TechFlash. We also launched a blog called Charm City Flavor that focuses on the hospitality scene. So we’re always thinking about niche-specific blogs that will have a good audience. We feel like if the audience is demanding news about a certain industry, we will answer with a specific blog.

AJR: Let’s talk mobile. How is your newsroom is approaching storytelling for mobile devices?

Sharrow: Reporters know that if they’re covering a press conference or big news event they should be tweeting comments and posting pictures. Back here in the newsroom, we have a lot of followers on our main account and we retweet the reporters’ posts to help grow their brand. Also we send out breaking news alerts and users who have downloaded our app will get a message story. Mobile is our fastest-growing platform for page views.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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