21 days ago
Linkorama : Reflections of a Newsosaur: It's time to rip the lid off - Newspapers need to get off their haunches, boldly pick their shots, and then rip the lids off their respective towns, turning themselves once again into confident and thundering voices delivering coverage that compels attention and delivers results.
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3 month ago
philgyford : Newspapers and magazines - Digital National library of Serbia - Scanned and browsable issues, from the avant-garde 'Zenit' to 'Advanced Beekeeping'. Awesome (especially if you read Serbian).
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Derek Powazek's 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments - solid suggestions that would lead to a massive short-term decrease in comments, for the better
Richard Rutter : 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments - Good solid sense from the man Powazek. In particular: Participate… Get your writers involved in the conversation.
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Revenue from print advertising is in radical decline with online advertising taking up much of the slack.. - If I was a betting man, I'd say that you could expect broadcast television advertising to be the next to be dramatically hit, in favour of targetted advertising packaged around on-demand download video.
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15 month ago
plasticbag : Newseum is an interactive museum about news - Best thing is that it gets the front pages of a few hundred newspapers every single day. Which is neat.
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19 month ago
jimray : Rob Curley's got some interesting thoughts on outsourcing “local” reporting - First I'd heard of this story of a Pasadena paper farming out local reporting to India
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19 month ago
jimray : Reinventing newspapers is Murdoch's long-range goal - International Herald Tribune
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19 month ago
jimray : Transmedia newspapers - "Print isn't bad, it's fantastic with huge staying power but you've gotta produce something I'm gonna want to keep around." I, frankly, don't really buy the premise that newsprint can ever be anything but disposable, but I do like the compariso
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19 month ago
jimray : Fake Steve on Murdoch buying The Journal - "But wait a minute. Isn't profit good? Shouldn't the market be allowed to work? [...] now Murdoch is offering a nearly 70% premium and you reporters are urging owners not to take it? Oh, Journal hacks, you are a bunch of frauds."
Eric Meyer : God I hope Murdoch buys the Journal - Nailed it in one, FSJ. Market forces are always good as long as they operate on someone else.
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19 month ago
jimray : Sam Zell thinks it's time to stop "giving away" content to Google - Oh, boy. What has the Trib gotten itself in to?
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19 month ago
jimray : News Corp. makes a bid for Dow Jones - Obviously, the political alignment makes sense, but this just doesn't feel right
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19 month ago
jimray : Holovaty breaks down the new presidential candidate tracker at the Post - Great feature set, pretty much exactly what you'd expect from that crew
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20 month ago
jimray : Why does Rob Curley's summer internship program piss me off so much? - Could it be that he uses the word "cool" 7 times? That he openly acknowledges they won't pay you what your worth? Or that he waited until now get this together and expects kids to quit the internships they've already accepted to work with him an
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jimray : Is USA Today’s orientation toward social networking detrimental to its journalistic purpose? - Too much social, not enough editing
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20 month ago
jimray : The Seattle dailies quit their bitching, for a while, at least - I'm still not quite convinced Seattle is a big enough town for two alt-weeklies and two print dailies. I'm betting one goes online only by the end of the decade (probably the PI).
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20 month ago
jimray : Newspapers Struggle to Respond to Web Challenge - Somewhat boring story about that crazy disruptive web thing using newspapers as an example
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20 month ago
Khoi Vinh : New York Observer: The <em>Times</em> Machine - A look at what’s supposedly happening Web-wise at the Gray Lady. No comment from me.
jimray : The Times machine - New York Observer takes a look at what the future might hold for the New York Times as they move locations and start integrating their newsroom
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jimray : LJWorld launches local business directory - Aims to compete with bigger players (Google, Yahoo) by being hyper focused and knowledgeable about the community. Not a bad model for newspapers.
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20 month ago
jimray : Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes - "What I want from my local newspaper"
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jimray : Real estate magnate Sam Zell is buying the Tribune - $8.2B, selling the Cubbies
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20 month ago
jimray : Washington Post refreshes design - Aimed at clearing clutter, better organization. Seems to mostly succeed, need to dig in a bit more.
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21 month ago
jimray : We don’t talk about citizen carpentry - Really excellent feedback to all the "OMg!! newspapers is dying!!1!" wankery of late
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21 month ago
jimray : 10 Newspaper Myths Deconstructed - Well, certainly smarter than the tripe Scoble was blahbing about.
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jimray : Doc Searls on fixing newspapers - Feel free to ignore everything Scoble/Winer/O'Reilly/etc are saying and just read this. I just saved you half an hour, thank me later.
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21 month ago
jimray : Dave Winer hooks the NYTimes up to Twitter - I've used a few of these (BBC, weather) and end up unsusbscribing after a couple of days. I just don't think the "twiiter as feed reader" metaphor really works.
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