On the job

I not only wrote a piece about what will be Indianapolis' tallest hotel (the JW Marriott) in March, I actually filmed a separate video story, using the Star's Sony HD and the editing equipment on Avid. Click here to see that story on indy.com. The story was also picked up on Hotel Online.

Matt Kryger took the pictures of me in action. Here is the lede of story I wrote for the Web:

Already five stories tall and 20 percent finished, the JW Marriott, which will be the state’s largest hotel when it opens in early 2011, is taking shape.

Additionally, here is the video I shot and edited:

Web work: The Watson's Girl

Another example of seeing something on TV, having the institutional memory to know that others were seeing it and would have the same curiosity, led to an interview with the Indianapolis-famous Watson's Girl, and then a post on this date. Name Change Aside She'll Always Be the Watson's Girl was the most clicked-on story on indystar.com.

Breaking news: Putting out fires

Cosmopolitan on the Canal was supposed to have opened in May, and the 218-unit building was to be a rarity, one of just a handful of major new rental developments in the Mile Square built since 2000. Then it caught fire way before dawn. Read the story, the second I had written during the early morning hours. We had updated this story from the get-go, with my first post just after 5 a.m. on IndyStar.com, written on a laptop from my house. Here is the running chronology of events. The aerial photo is from my buddy at the Star, Matt Kryger.

Web work: The King is gone

One of my specialties is the second-day power interview. My coworker, Erika Smith, had written about layoffs at a popular Indianapolis radio station. Layoffs included Dave "The King" Wilson, afternoon DJ. So the day the story appeared in the Star, I called Wilson and interviewed him and posted the story on the Web. This was the story kept in archives on indy.com.