Lindsay Toler

My job during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games was to interview artistic gymnastics athletes and coaches and upload their quotes to a database for the Olympic press corps. My deadline? 10 minutes.

I also covered the Olympics as a blogger for NeighborsGo, the citizen-driven content site for the Dallas Morning News. 

Later, NeighborsGo editor Oscar Martinez gave a lecture about my work for his Digital Journalism class at Southern Methodist University. He used the textbook Journalism NEXT by Mark Briggs, which points to my work in Beijing as an example of how citizen journalism can match up to major metro dailies.

Check out the blog I kept during my two month trip to Beijing, China. I usually posted a few times per day.

NeighborsGo also set up a portal to all of my coverage, including videos of the Opening Ceremonies and much more!

Back in Dallas, NeighborsGo used my content in their weekly tabloid publication. One week, I even made the cover. Click the links for more stories.

And here's the Twitter feed! 

My Beijing Blog

I reported on the 2008 Summer Olympics by writing a blog, taking photos and video, and reporting to a local radio station.

As I posted daily stories about life in Beijing and at the Olympic Games, teasers and links to my content were up on DallasNews.com and Neighborsgo.com during July and August: