It took me about a year to turn “transparency” from a word with nasty connotations to a word with positive ones. The internet gives a great new landscape for transparency. Here are a few places newspapers could start:
Create an index of your corrections that include the correction made and a link to the original article […]
The trib launched a community site today, triblocal.com. It looks like what a newspaper thinks would work for the model of community participation, and in the write-up the Tribune gives the site they mention TribLocal takes its cues from YourHub. The article also includes choice phrases like “taking a tentative step into a brave new […]
Newspapers don’t come with a manual. They never have. They’re simple, right? Maybe, but this “no need to explain” thing is turning into a problem online, and, sometimes in print.
Without a voice from the newspaper giving advice to the reader on how to use the newspaper, each reader gets to figure it out on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Each day this new blog, Today’s Rock Stars, writes up the newspapers that use the rock star metaphor in their articles. Yesterday it was some Canadian and Stephen Hawking. “It’s a rare day with neither sports rock stars nor political rock stars” wrote the narrator, Matt Gill.
This is a goofy way to use newspaper content […]
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 / […]