Tag: Newspapers
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Further notes on how investigative journalism continues in online-only news organizations
From a New York Times story on VoiceOfSanDiego.org and other onlne-only local news organizations doing original reporting and investigative journalism: The people who run the local news sites see themselves as one future among many, and they have a complex relationship with traditional media. The say that the deterioration of those media has created an…
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Let’s go BARcamp on the API CEO meetup
Know what Foo Camp is? Know what BarCamp is? OK, now that we have that out of the way, Jason Kristufek is calling for a “summit” of future-of-news hotshots/thinkers as a counterpoint to the recent American Press Institute mostly-executives meeting of the minds. Sounds like a BarCamp to me. Like Jason, I’m not entirely sure…
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Packaging national election headlines for local news sites with Publish2
Happy Election Day-After! I’m still up to my neck in post-election analytics, gathering stats and data from hundreds of news sites I work with to do a little postmortem on what worked, who learned some new tricks, and what the readers thought of it. One of the things we put together here at GateHouse for…
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Print is dead. Long live print!
A brief inventory. Things I never read in print anymore: Bank statements Newspapers Opinions Things I always read in print: Books Alt-weeklies Magazines Things I often read in print, but not always: Recipes
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A short manifesto on local linkblogging
Brittney Gilbert blogs for a TV station in the Bay Area. I’ve mentioned her before, and even though I’ve moved geographically far from her coverage area, I keep up with her tweets and various postings. Today she writes: I am not a journalist. While I disagree (the curator is a journalist and the journalist is…
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El Comercio Perú | Audios de la corrupción, Paro de la CGTP, Selección nacional, Temblor en Lima, Noticias Perú
A gorgeous newspaper.com homepage. They lead with video, follow it with a brilliant breaking news grid that rotates through a variety of sections, then the reader finds themselves in front of a console of information, from soccer schedules (mapped) to stock markets. El Comercio Perú | Audios de la corrupción, Paro de la CGTP, Selección…
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Newspapers: Vanishing faster than you think
Philip Meyer, author of The Vanishing Newspaper, in AJR: “The town crier’s audience was limited to the number of people who could be assembled within the range of an unamplified human voice. Printing changed everything. It made the size of the audience theoretically limitless and, by the creation of multiple records, enabled more reliable preservation…
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Dealing with the elephant: Hire Web-native salespeople
This is the third post in a short series I’m going to write about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual habit of banging my head up against walls made out of giant rolls of newsprint. The starting point, the givens in the equation, are listed here. Suggest what…
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Interview: Chris Krewson on changes at Philly.com and the Inquirer
Last night, I took an unceremonious break from my self-imposed Romenesko diet. I had seen a stream of tweets and blog posts and shared links about something that sounded crazy coming out of Philadephia. The word going around, more or less, was that the Philadelphia Inquirer was going to hold stories back from the Web,…
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The ultimate guide to newspaper curmudgeon talking points — Eat Sleep Publish
Hahahahahaha! The ultimate guide to newspaper curmudgeon talking points — Eat Sleep Publish