KillTheCliche.com fell into my rss reader today (via delicious’ most-popular journalism-tagged links). It’s an idea I wanted to do myself, but, well, in the war of ideas many fall victim to Mr. Not-Enough-Time’s axe.
Anyway, Kill The Cliche measures cliches in articles from The Boston Globe, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Financial Times […]
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 […]
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 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 […]