Sheena, Way to go! We will help show your editor that not only does Astronomy sell, It inspires! This is Good News Rodger Fry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheena McFarland" <smcfarland@sltrib.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:10 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Astronomy blog at www.sltrib.com coming soon
Hi Utah Astronomers,
This is Sheena over at The Trib. I'm writing you to let you know that I've just gotten permission to start an astronomy blog on The Trib's Web site. I'm super excited about it because now I should be able to get more astronomy news out to our readers.
Apparently, after the story I wrote about a big full moon hit No. 1 on our Web site, one of the top editors here made the comment "astronomy sells." So, I'm capitalizing on that while fulfilling my desire to write more about astronomy.
The best thing is, the news doesn't have to be super local or huge in scope. I'm planning to kick off the blog when I write about the Quarantids meteor shower coming up on Jan. 4. And yes, blog readers absolutely can make comments on each and every blog post, something I highly encourage!
I am also looking for name ideas for the blog, and any ideas about where I can cull information about astronomical happenings. Obviously, this is a great forum, and I've signed up for NASA's mailings, but any other suggestions would be great.
I plan to blog as regularly as possible, meaning whenever a cool star/ planet alignment, meteor shower, star party, etc. is happening, I want to know. And if you guys run across cool articles in other publications, let me know, and I can link to it and guide our readers there. Of course, I'll still pitch bigger stories for the paper, so the blog won't steal the thunder from The Trib's astronomy coverage.
Anyway, I can't wait to get this going, and I want to thank you in advance for your help (and readership!!)
Sheena McFarland State Government Reporter (and resident astro girl) The Salt Lake Tribune 90 S. 400 West, Suite 700 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Office: (801) 257-8619 Cell: (801) 510-5567 Fax: (801) 257-8525 smcfarland@sltrib.com
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