Archive for the 'Business' Category

Saving money, newspaper style

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

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 […]

Maybe nobody in the newsroom wanted the job…

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

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, […]

“Newsroom ISO programmers” gaining online buzz

Friday, March 9th, 2007

There’s been a stream of posts this week about the “newsroom-programmer” connection. You could say it culminated today with Holovaty’s “work with me at the Washington Post” post. Then there’s Mark Glaser’s state-of-the-geek-in-the-newsroom post. Then there’s all the discussion around those posts.
In the spirit of inclusion, I’d like to invite folk in the Denver / […]

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