Tag: Newspapers
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Dean Singleton on the plight of the major metro
[UPDATE: Predictably, this was the wrong day to bring this up.] I get the feeling people think of MediaNews* CEO (and AP chairman) Dean Singleton as some sort of billionaire boogeyman, the last guy in the world you’d want buying your news organization, but his take on why newspapers in major metro markets are failing…
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Building a Django CMS for the Spokesman Review – CoPress
Ryan Pitts of the Spokesman-Review runs down the process of buying Ellington, building their own CMS based on it (Cannonball!) and launching it at the paper in Spokane. Check out http://www.spokesman.com if you’ve never seen it before. Building a Django CMS for the Spokesman Review – CoPress
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10 little white lies you hear about the future of newspapers
Print is dead. Journalism is dying. Paid online content will save newspapers. No one will pay for online news. You haven’t tried anything. You should try everything. We’ve tried everything. We’ve certainly tried that before, and it didn’t work then, so it won’t work now. This is all corporate media’s / Google’s / Craig’s /…
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San Francisco
Yesterday, news broke that Hearst will close the San Francisco Chronicle if it a) can’t dramatically reduce costs (read as: cut payroll in half) or b) find a buyer (it won’t). Analysis: Alan Mutter Mark Potts Ken Doctor Although it is likely that you will hear and see a copious amount of handwringing in the…
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Clay Shirky on micropayments for online news
I am very specifically not enjoying the current wave of handwringing over whether or not some version of micropayments, online subscription, or paywalls could work for typical U.S. news organizations. But here’s Clay Shirky: “The essential thing to understand about small payments is that users don’t like being nickel-and-dimed. We have the phrase ‘nickel-and-dimed’ because…
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Carnival of Journalism: Are we asking the right questions about online revenue models?
As is my habit, I’m running behind on my Carnival of Journalism post this month, set to the timely and tuneful whistles and bangs of talk about whether a newspaper’s online revenue could support the newsroom, how long the newspaper of record will keep the press running, and what a major metro in a failed…
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Why commenting on news sites still stinks: Further notes on the commenting survey results
The most striking conclusion I’ve come to based on the results of the commenting survey that 49 online news folks answered over the last week or two was this: Commenting on news stories is still broken. Busted. Stinks. It’s a mudpit. Still. I’ve been writing about how to improve commenting on news sites for a…
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Standard templates aren’t such a bad idea | yelvington.com
Steve’s notes on what can go wrong with news site design and how to rein in the client from time to time. Standard templates aren’t such a bad idea | yelvington.com