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9 things I hope newspapers figure out about the internet in 2007

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

This list is aimed at online newspapers and the newsrooms that love them.

“Local” means it matters. Take advantage of it.
Newspapers harness and print tons of information. Do more with it.
There’s an amazing amount of information available in the community. It’s time to harness it, and then reward the community for participating.
If you’re not interacting with […]

Sweet! A news home page that indexes more types of information than just the “top stories”

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Daylife.com is a new news aggregator … big whoop, right? Well, there’s something worth looking at here, and it’s how they organize their information. Instead of a bunch of lists of stories on their top stories index, they publish:

A quote from some newsmaker,
A photo-thumbnail index of the top people in the news,
A photo-thumbnail index of […]

I like this what-if: The new news beats

Monday, December 11th, 2006

All-about-the-words journalism-blog Gangrey sparked a thread with its recent post, New Rules:

If you got to blow up your newspaper, effectively immediately, meaning even the potential elimination of the traditional, nuts-and-bolts beats – cops, city hall, school board – and if you then got to rethink completely how we harvest stories …
What would the “beats” be?
Great […]

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