I’ve seen it countless times: Reporter wants to help out online. Reporter gets the okay to start blogging. Reporter blogs for a few weeks. Without any comments, or any idea that anybody’s really reading, reporter quits the blog.
Or, there’s video. Or audio. Reporter shoots video, hands it off to online team. Neither online team or […]
Backfence, the hyperlocal startup that couldn’t, is closing its doors. Some newspapers continue testing the interactive online-community waters. What’s the big picture here? “Action.” The action-oriented internet. One thing the internet does well is make previously difficult actions much easier. Newspaper-dot-coms haven’t quite clued into this, which is why articles are still the primary way […]
Each time I see that last question I wrote I dislike it more. Out with bad ideas, in with new ones (and give the new ones a couple weeks until they’re allowed to be called bad).
This question aims at the idea that newspapers are in a unique place online. No other legacy medium publishes so […]
There’s plenty of work to be done on the local web. There’s a lot of potential in local / hyperlocal news. What’s the lowest-hanging fruit on the local news site? (Sure, this depends on the situation / market / tv-radio-newspaper angle, but there are plenty that are way too applicable to all)
Here’s one I see… […]
So, this is one of the conversation-building projects on this blog: The Open-Ended Question. While it may be optimistic to hope for much response here, being a new blog that’s not even read by my parents (yet), the wonder of blogs is that you can answer this question a month or a year from […]