Dive into the archives.
- The Big Picture
Patrick Goldstein, one of our columnists, has started a a new blog, This Big Picture. In one of his posts, I think he gives a great overview of why so many newspapers are starting blogs.
But in journalism, it’s time for a change–big change. As you might have heard, this newspaper, along with virtually every [...]
- Weekend Chicago ‘RedEye’ Reaches 100,000 Opt-In Subscribe
Interesting… I wonder what it is about RedEye that is causing this.
A year after its launch, the weekend edition of RedEye has more than 100,000 opt-in subscribers, the Chicago Tribune’s quick-read tabloid said Monday.
Mondays through Fridays, about 200,000 copies of the free paper are distributed through newsboxes and stacks in the city of [...]
- The Pothole Paradox
Last year, Steven Johnson wrote about the Pothole Paradox and why it matters for local news. In a nutshell, it goes like this:
1. Say you’ve got a particularly nasty pothole on your street that you’ve been scraping the undercarriage of your car against for a year. When the town or city finally decides to [...]
- Still grasping for a clue?
Lots of talk about Don MacAskill’s post detailing his experiences with BusinessWeek and the LA Times. Reading the bits about the Times makes me cringe. I want the experience to be different and I think there is a gathering momentum to do things in a much more Web-friendly way but we aren’t there [...]
- Changes at the Times
Over the weekend, there was a parting of the ways between The Times and former editor James O’Shea.
In a defiant speech delivered in the newsroom, O’Shea, 64, complained about what he called the “pervasive culture of defeat” manifested by repeated cutbacks in newsroom spending across the country. He attacked Tribune’s budgeting process for [...]
- Newspapers as a Social Object?
I’m re-reading Douglas Rushkoff’s Get Back in the Box and finding it extremely more interesting and thought-provoking at the Times then when I was at EarthLink. The chapter I just finished was on social currency and it was mirrored some things that Hugh Macleod has been posting about social objects
Here’s Hugh’s definition of a [...]
- NFL Playoffs start today
Most of you might already know that but the New York Times have put together a nice site which breaks down the various pieces in the games. Looking at the Pro Football section of the site though, you don’t see any mention of it. I found out about it because I follow Jacob [...]
- Mr. Hiller, Tear Down this Wall
Ok, even though the title is a bit over the top, there seems to be a new push to look at the real benefits of forcing users to register before they are able to see any content on newspaper sites. Mathew Ingram asks the question, How many does registration keep out? Obviously, I [...]
