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Exactly a year ago today, I worked my last day in corporate at a newspaper company and walked out the door to three days of technical unemployment before I started my new job at a startup on a Monday. Of course, those three days of unemployment were highlighted by a Saturday spent in Philadelphia at… Continue reading Philadelphia and the pace of innovation
When I started this blog, in my first week as a Mass Communications graduate student at San Jose State, it was hosted at Blogspot, and it was anonymous. That lasted for about a month. Pretty quickly, I signed up for a free WordPress instance at Blogsome, where I enjoyed a bit more freedom to learn… Continue reading Five
I’ve been saying those words in person to people a lot lately: “There is no newspapers.” What’s it mean? It means that if you’re in the business of publishing pronouncements, predictions, prayers, analysis, criticism, or full on takedowns related to the current state of the newspaper industry, please understand that despite the convenience it would… Continue reading There is no newspapers
From Yoni Greenbaum, on the topic of outsourcing applications, the division of print and online newsrooms, and the hiring of online journalists: “We all know that, increasingly, online is where the money is, but it will take talent to earn it. I would urge newspapers to make sure they’re paying their online employees appropriately; if… Continue reading Only hire the best.
Rob comments at Lost Remote: “I try to work around the Google News situation by posting almost all of our video content to YouTube. So far that’s one place where our content hasn’t been usurped by AP. We also are trying to blog breaking news – and sending automated updates to Technorati in the process… Continue reading Two Google News workarounds
“Local and hyperlocal content are unique to specific publications. It’s the kind of content that is guaranteed to draw unique eyeballs. And it’s the kind of content that newspapers should be striving to produce.” – Can I get an Amen? Is AP content still relevant on Web sites? – The Journalism Iconoclast
Newspapers should produce amazing local databases with great maps, ratings and reviews. A newspaper company should buy Yelp. Yelp now has an open API. Newspapers should stop trying to develop something better, and use the API to provide users with Yelp’s functionality on their own sites, applied to their local businesses. Apply that logic everywhere… Continue reading If you can’t beat ’em, or buy ’em, use the API
This is pretty basic, but it’s something I’ve been trying to get at recently: Every newspaper’s push into online innovation (Multimedia, Interactivity, Data) is going to be different, based on its resources (time, money, staff) and community (size, age, attitude). That should be obvious enough, right? What might work for a national paper like the… Continue reading Every newspaper’s killer app is going to be different
In two back-channel online news discussions this week, folks have been debating how newspapers should be gathering video and how they should handle comment moderation. The video discussion among Howard Owens, Mindy McAdams, and others, is notable because the question is no longer IF newspapers should be running video online (Yes) or HOW they should… Continue reading How to juggle multimedia and Digg interactivity
When I talk about how newspapers should put out a tab version and a full version, this is what I’m talking about. Interested to see how this goes. ‘OC Post’ Rolls into Homes
