Missourian Meeting

So, here's a brief update from the meeting at the Missourian today...

The three economy videos we talked about last week are still a work in progress. They are:

1. How to market yourself
2. What to do if you lose your job
3. How to retire in this economy

This week, three more video-based stories the Missourian reporters are pursuing are:

1. How to save on your monthly utility bills
2. How should you invest differently in this economy
3. Tips for how parents should teach their kids/teens to manage money. (We talked about this being two videos...maybe one focuses more on how parents can "say no to their kids and make it stick.")

There are also quite a few print stories the reporters have been working on. One on food and fuel prices will be on the Sunday cover of the Missourian, and there are several others that are in the early stages of reporting.

Also, Jen, if we can't seem to get KBIA in on this collaboration yet, the Missourian has a link on the bottom of their homepage that says "Audio." If we click here, there are a bunch of random KBIA pieces, including economy stories, and we can pull them to our site from there.

The Missourian is also in the process of designing a separate webpage called "Economy 101" for all of their economy stories, which we could attach a link to from our site. As far as I know from chatting with the reporters briefly, there is already an RSS feed in place for those stories to go to moneycommons.

Now I'm over here at KOMU, editing and publishing stories to the web...and of course, making sure we've tagged the previously completed economy stories with the "8 On Your Money" label. All is good so far!!!