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 […]
Thought: There’s information, and there are filters for that information. Online newspapers have focused on what new information they ought to publish online — it’s worth a harder look at what new filters can be created (like this or this).
On a tangent, yesterday I pitched three categories for the information we’re displaying on the Denver […]
“One member at a time” is not the same as “your subscriber base,” and should not be approached in the same (one-)way.
This paragraph matters big-time to the one-way media, and so does the post behind it:
Strong social sites build value one user at a time. If one user finds value, then they’re much more likely […]
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 […]
The answer: it varies. The problem is it varies a lot.
I was in the middle of writing a guide on writing a guide for online news content (how meta) when this came across the radar:
The editor of the Greensboro N.C. paper spent time interviewing loyal, 7-day subscribers to the paper last week. More than […]
Update: TBO.com’s Rusty Coats explains what happened: “the timing of this job appearing alongside layoff news is coincidental.” That information makes the meat of this post irrelevant. Which is too bad, because I already posted it. This is my first experience with the “shoot-first” blog practice, and if I keep on top of my stuff, […]
Plenty of online publications have those “most-popular” charts that measure the articles / blog posts that get the most clicks.
Poynter released part of an eyetrack study that says “Readers select stories of particular interest and then read them thoroughly.” That’s cool — and that opens the door to another type of most-popular metric. In […]
Newspapers use plenty of vendors to handle their online content. The Oregonian has started posting their photos on Flickr here.
Why is this notable? Because the O doesn’t get any ad money for the photos they post.
What might be the point of this? It’s another way to draw in an audience that wouldn’t otherwise […]
Saw this quote on the web last week. It’s the tagline from Microformatique, a blog / book about microformats. It makes sense for microformats, and it has use in the newspaper world as well.
In the face of all the challenges newspapers have, “silver bullet thinking” is attractive, and is responsible for a lot of […]