Tag: Online News
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Catering to information obsession
The moment that launched years of overzealous information consumption, filtering, sharing, and engagement, for me, was seeing Scoble’s feedreader on a screen in 2005. He was subscribed to 1200 feeds. Since then, he’s shifted his information production and consumption around from stream to stream as necessary to stay at the absolute front of the curve…
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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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Help a journalism startup out
Why We Should Feel Bullish For the Future of Journalism: “Go ahead. Go get lost on the web for 20 minutes, find a journalism startup you like and email the founder to let them know you support what you are doing. You’d be surprised how much that means to them and how much that can…
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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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Innovation is easy.
Here’s a PDF of the short presentation I made at SND in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago. It’s remarkably simple. I think I waved my arms a lot to fill up my five minutes. This presentation goes well with the list of mostly free online news tools I posted a couple weeks ago, as…
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The best newspaper webcast I’ve seen yet: Ledger Live
Remember that time when I spent two hours out of every day, five days a week, writing, shooting, and editing a daily newspaper webcast? It stunk. It was no fun, a waste of time, and a poor way to engage online readers with video. No one — and I mean no one — wants to…
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Wired Journalists in Cedar Rapids weathered the floods
Remember back awhile when I mentioned how some seriously wired journalists were bubbling up to the surface at WJ.com? Yeah, I specifically called out Matt Neznanski and Jason Kristufek, didn’t I? Here’s Matt interviewing Jason about running the online operations at the Cedar Rapids Gazette during the floods: “Q: Had you already put into place…
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If you think online news is difficult…
If using a Web-based content management system is difficult, try putting together a print edition in an old version of Quark and then come back and tell me how hard it is to push the Publish button. If editing video takes too long, then go back to developing your own prints in the darkroom. If…