Ken Otterbourg, managing editor of the Winston-Salem Journal (where I was working before I came to Denver), has a tale of an awesome photo of the lunar eclipse that a reader submitted:
A reader submitted that photo, which looks great. But, when the photo editor was readying it for print, well, the image told a different […]
I started writing this post Monday, and in the meantime Adrian Holovaty’s Everyblock site launched, which is all about answering the “where” part of information.
It’s funny — I was talking with my coworker Doug today about how newspapers forgot to ask how the “Who / What / Why / Where / How” questions change when […]
Online news organizations have plenty of opportunities to launch new products that build on their information, build on their community, or launch distinct information. Many of these products will be useful … not all of them will be successful. For newspaper-dot-coms not sure where to start, I recommend building an app on top of a […]
First, an announcement from the Department of Holiday Offerings: Happy Thanksgiving to you, you U.S.-living internet reader. For you other-country folk, well, no turkey.
Yesterday Flickr announced Flickr Places — new indexes for what looks like just about every place / city / town / state / province / country (but not neighborhood, yet — […]
Snark aside, my employer the Post is up for the General Excellence (medium site), Breaking News and something else relating to our business columnist Al Lewis. That’s terrific, and it comes from the work of our team and Al Lewis. On another Al Lewis-related note, he wrote an excellent and semi-snarky column about leadership […]
Howard Owens has a solid post about five attributes necessary for newspapers to continually cope with the changing information landscape. Number four is my favorite:
Fourth, measuring success won’t be a matter of dollars and sense only. I think Hagel is right on this point: We need to develop metrics that help us gauge our ability […]
If I had any numbers on how many bloggers out there have filed a FOIA, well, that would make this post more interesting. No matter. The folk at the popular Boing Boing say they’re doing the FOIA-dance on behalf of some detained-by-TSA air-travelers. This will very likely make FOIA’s popular in the a-list blog crowd, […]
Christine Tatum, president of Society for Professional Journalists (and a co-worker of mine), is posting links to all SPJ member blogs on her blog. If you are, and you do, send her the link.
Now, I don’t think the current state of blogroll-style links is particularly useful (which is why I haven’t started mine yet). Sure, […]
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 internet makes it possible to dynamically build context for the news that newspaper-dot-coms publish, which can make news matter more.
Much of news aims at the […]
It’s cute that the Post wrote a story about its new ‘hyperlocal’ effort (
In Push for Local Readers, Post Unleashes LoudounExtra.com). But, in an article clouded by links on a page cluttered with them, nowhere is there a link to the site-in-mention, LoudounExtra.com.
Now I’m not saying everybody oughta be perfect. But, with one of the […]