Tag: Newspapers
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Modernize your newsroom today
Many employees at news organizations have a very easy time blaming out-of-date computers, front-end print publishing systems, and Web content management systems on such faceless, amorphous entities as “Corporate,” or perhaps “The Budget.” Nevertheless, there are plenty of free or not-completely-expensive ways you can modernize your newsroom today. Here are 5. Use Google Documents (or…
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Smart single-copy sales
In the IHT, via Romenesko: “Now The Standard is fighting back, using a new, cashless payment system to try to make it easier for Londoners to buy the paper, even if they do not have the necessary 50 pence, or $1, in their pockets. Instead of handing over a coin or two, readers touch a…
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The one dollar newspaper
Call me some sort of radical, but here’s a simple proposal that I think could provide newspapers with a big boost in single copy sales, and profits, too: On the rack or in the box, your newspaper now costs one dollar. When was the last time you paid less than a dollar for a bottle…
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Your real competition
You *think* your competition is the guy at the TV station who always rip-and-reads your stories, or the reporter on your beat at the major metro from the big city 12 miles away, or that alt-weekly with the nasty cartoonist, don’t you? Sorry, but that’s simply not the case. Oh, sure, your ad reps and…
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CJR: Secrets of the City
Great story connected to The Wire, but more about big city newspapers, conflicts, opportunities, context. CJR: Secrets of the City
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A vote for change…
We talk a lot in the circles I run in about a new skillset for reporters and about how a wired journalist in 2008 should be keeping up with the technologies and communities that are quickly looking like Michael Johnson in 1996, looking back at newspapers over their shoulder, smugly. Yoni Greenbaum walks right into…
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Even before the Internet, news was pretty close to free – The Curious Capitalist – Justin Fox
Yes, that. Especially the bit about how circulation departments are tasked with keeping content, er, advertising in front of eyeballs. Even before the Internet, news was pretty close to free – The Curious Capitalist – Justin Fox
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Now on Drupal – HamptonRoads.com and PilotOnline.com | groups.drupal.org
Wow. I must have missed this a couple weeks ago, but these two news sites – impossible to categorize them as newspaper-dot-coms – re-launched on Drupal. Now on Drupal – HamptonRoads.com and PilotOnline.com | groups.drupal.org
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Notes on building core news site functionality in Drupal
If you’re even thinking about using Drupal to power any sort of news or community site, check out this explanation from Jeff Anderson, the product development manager for PilotOnline.com and HamptonRoads.com in Virginia. (Sidenote: If you’ve never visited those sites, or HamptonRoads.tv, or looked at what the Pilot does in print, you’re seriously missing out…