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Mike Noe

Denver, Colorado

Homepage: http://www.rockymountainnews.com

Mike Noe is the editor of RockyMountainNews.com. He has been with the Rocky since 1999.

Since moving the Rocky’s interactive department into the newsroom in 2001, he has worked to integrate the newsroom and online staffs. That included combining the newsroom's library and online departments.

He was also part of the team which created the community journalism site YourHub.com.

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Training key to helping journalists become comfortable with Web 2.0

November 14, 2008
When Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1908, American Indians were still referred to as "wild" by famed Rocky Mountain News journalist Damon Runyon. Delegates were entertained by snow hauled in from the nearby mountains. And the Rocky chronicled the convention in a broadsheet format. It would be three more decades before Colorado's first newspaper would take a chance on publishing in the tabloid format that its readers still embrace today.

To say the least, 2008 was a far cry from that 1908 DNC. A staff of 150 field journalists covered this year's convention 24 hours a day for five straight days, posting vignettes, photos and video to RockyMountainNews.com. So much content poured into the site at once that we used two scrolling windows on the home page to channel the flow of information. A nurse at a local hospital told me she was glued to the site throughout the week, checking back whenever she could to see the latest updates on protests, celebrities and the delegates.
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