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 […]
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 […]
Here’s a list of handy ideas newspapers are using or could use to save that all-important dough. I pulled these from personal experience and observation.
Got elevators? If your newsroom isn’t on the first floor, odds are you’re taking an elevator to get to it. Every second spent in the elevator is a second not […]
INTERNET SEARCH engine Google is understood to have reached deals with several large UK news groups over carrying their content on Google News.
The deals are reputedly being kept strictly secret for fear that Google will end up having to pay for similar licences with all of the 4500 news services it carries on its news […]
The L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune announce a combined 250 or so cuts in the newsroom. The Denver Post (my employer) announced a buyout of up to 37. The numbers don’t give online much of a chance to bail newspapers out. Will desperate newspapers continue their superficial, trend-jumping approach to the internet? Will they hunker […]