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Announcing: ReportingOn 2.0 is live

July 2, 2009

ReportingOn 2.0 is live and ready for your questions. And answers.
It’s still the backchannel for your beat, but it’s an absolute re-imagining of the network.
For those of you who haven’t been keeping score, ReportingOn is a project funded by the Knight News Challenge, and it’s a place for journalists of all stripes to find [...]

Dealing with the elephant, elsewhere

September 3, 2008

Paul Bradshaw comes up with a list of 10 ways that ad sales people can save newspapers:
“…how about a slot against the ‘most popular’ story of that minute (if it helps, think of it as the equivalent as the front page ad), second most popular, and so on (you could even auction these slots in [...]

Newspapers: Make money online, minus the news

September 28, 2006

Who knows more about Santa Cruz, California than the Santa Cruz Sentinel?
Well, that’s debatable, but let’s put it another way: Who’s bothered to put together a modern, readable Santa Cruz site for tourists?
That’s right, the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
DestinationSantaCruz.com is live, and it looks like a damn good idea.

Build a site that has nothing to [...]