Jamie Gumbrecht

Like everyone, my job at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution changed after the last round of departures from the newsroom. I joined the new digital Insight/Opinion team, which includes mostly bloggers.

My duty: to explore what’s fun around Atlanta, try it out and see if it’s worth doing. I’ll document all of it on the new blog, Inside Access. I’m not an art critic, a theater critic or a music critic, but more an experience critic — someone to sift through all the information to answer the eternal question, “What’s the plan?”

I’ll be writing, editing, shooting photos and video and posting my own work. Keep an eye out on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. (For those keeping track at home, @jamieg will still be in service, but it will no longer serve the dual purpose of personal and professional tweeting.)

The pace is quick — they’re looking for four posts per day — but I hope I’ll have the opportunity to go deeper into some stories, the ones that might never get the space or play they deserve in print.

To compare, here’s the short story that ran online about the Town & Gown Players in Athens returning to the stage after a series of killings in April.

Here’s the blog post, and photo gallery, that I was able to produce for Inside Access.

Not a bad way to get started. Let’s see where it goes next.