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.
Tag: online+newspaper
ZIPskinny demographic information for 95060 – SANTA CRUZ CA
As always, this is the sort of stuff that belongs on a local newspaper site as evergreen content. Answer the questions locals and out-of-towners have about your neighborhoods.
The Marginalization of Newspapers « Screenwerk
Some wishes for improvement at newspaper.coms. via Will S.
Photo of lynching posted on TH site – Dubuque Telegraph Herald
A complicated problem with a simple solution: No html allowed in comments. Or use a system that has some granularity to it so you can allow tags but not tags.
Photo of lynching posted on TH site – Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Web Editors Reveal Online Flops or Failures – E & P
Notes on failure: “But with those accomplishments and expansions have come no shortage of starts and stops, bumps, flops, and sometimes outright debacles.”
Building dynamic context – Joe Think
“Newspapers have a significant opportunity to enhance their coverage. It’s called context, and it’s information that helps readers make better decisions and observations about the news and their community.” The hard part: building the databases.
Page Views And CPMs Are Suppressing Online Advertising Growth and Innovation » Publishing 2.0
“On a CPM basis, to make $59 billion in online ad revenue, at a $30 CPM, you need 1,966,666,666,666 ad impressions.” – The moral of the story: Change advertising models or die.
Page Views And CPMs Are Suppressing Online Advertising Growth and Innovation » Publishing 2.0
Digital Editor Jim Roberts — Talk to the Newsroom — New York Times
“Some news sites adjust their news decisions based on how many people are clicking on certain stories or photos. We don’t; we still make our own news judgments. And to directly answer your question, we don’t adjust reporters’ salaries according to t
Digital Editor Jim Roberts — Talk to the Newsroom — New York Times
knoxnews.com
Knox News gets the Django-powered Ellington treatment. Yes, I’m jealous.
Making the ’24-hour newsroom’ work – inlandpress.org
Notes from the Lawrence Journal-World on adapting to the 24-hour news cycle. via Editors Weblog, who got the name of the paper wrong in the headline. Sigh.
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