Tag: Online News
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Culture shock
Trying to turn the tide of the decline of newspapers from the inside involves a great deal of evangelizing and pontificating and running through sets of common scenarios with folks who are still firmly planted in the Paper business rather than the News business. That’s no surprise. And it’s no surprise that top-down, do-it-this-way mandates…
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Migration and alternate reads
I’ve been a little busy for the last week or so moving across the country, although going weeks between posts isn’t really anything new here, eh? As always, I’m posting to Twitter far more often than I could hope to blog here. While I’m slammed with life and work busy-ness, please check out the following…
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How I have used the print edition, historically speaking
My personal reasons for picking up an ink-on-paper newspaper, whether from off the lawn or the kitchen table or the newsstand or the stack in the newsroom. For reference purposes, I grew up in a household with a Miami Herald subscription, which explains the details of 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 to some extent.…
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10 blogs your newspaper needs to rip off
I’m making a short list of frequently updated news blogs published by mainstream news organizations that post breaking news and link out to other sources. If you run a newspaper.com and you don’t have a blog like this to put together links and short updates, ask yourself why not. These are all great examples of…
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Links that redefine news
Wednesday night, I’ll be speaking with Steve Sloan’s New Media class at San Jose State University. I’m planning to show off some of the best of your work. Yes, you. I’m looking for online news sites and projects that stray from the traditional definition of news. I’m assuming these journalism students get enough Gloom &…
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The new Las Vegas Sun is really, really good.
Las Vegas Sun. Whoa. I liked it a few days ago when I looked at the homepage and an article page or two, but I keep going back and it keeps growing on me. Read Rob Curley’s rather informative take here, including the ridiculously constraining bits about the crazy JOA that makes the print edition…
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What’s this new Twitter thing I keep hearing about?
It’s the Friday between Christmas and New Year’s in newsrooms all over the world, and apparently, everyone’s reading Romenesko, clicking through on the link to a post by Howard Owens (full disclosure, y’all: he’s my boss), and jamming on his link tagging me as a Twit-vangelist. So, here are a few places to start if…
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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…
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Participation counts.
If you’re in the online news business, you’re in the participation business. If you’re a journalist, starting conversations is your job. So what are you doing standing on the sidelines? Start blogging here: wordpress.com Start sharing your photos here: flickr.com Start sharing your bookmarks here: del.icio.us Start developing a social network here: facebook.com That’s the…