Our local story on the sale. No one in the building knew this was happening yesterday until a few minutes before the MediaNews execs walked into the newsroom.
Sentinel sold to MediaNews partnership – By Matt King – Sentinel staff writer
I for one, welcome our new MediaNews overlords…
Interesting day at the office. Went out and shot this myself. I was out there for four hours or so, cut this together and got it posted in about one hour.
DOT webcams, now including a piece of the fishhook in Santa Cruz.
With all this talk about the Death of Newspapers going on and on and on, I started thinking, “What about the undead reporters?”
Best interview of the night?
Dick Cheney: He kept saying “It was a hunting accident, I swear.”
Then he pointed the plastic shotgun at me.
Video of all the chaos and skin that is Downtown Santa Cruz on Halloween is online.
*In which I make another disingenuous attempt at a regular feature, reviewing several items that have come across my desk/eyes/ears in the last little while.
That’s all for now. If you have opinions of your own about any of these, drop ‘em in the comments.
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 do with news, don’t put your brand anywhere on it, fill it up with valuable content for tourists looking for hotels, restaurants, etc., and sell some ads.
The site looks and feels new and real, not like the sort of cheap hotel aggregator site full of paid links and annoying pop-ups I often find through search engines.
Instead, the Sentinel used Joomla, an open-source content management system, without worrying about shoehorning all this content into an existing database on its existing, conventional, and slightly outdated newspaper site.
I love it. I would tell friends and family to use this site to find a hotel here. If I’m willing to recommend it to my Mom, that means you did a good job, folks.
I’ll be interested to see where this site comes up in search engines. Hopefully, the use of, y’know, actual content, will help it beat out the crud.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel is up for sale. One potential buyer? MediaNews.