The Palm Beach Post has decided to actually do what so many people in journalism have only been willing to talk about. But with the exception of a few blog posts including one from Erica Smith of graphicdesignr.net fame, that news has largely gone ignored. Just about a week ago, Managing Editor Bill Rose announced […]
Palm Beach looks to the future
February 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Tags: Industry · Innovation · Leadership · Online · Organization
Just call your content what it is
January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Many newspapers have created space on their homepages to highlight news that is breaking or new. Often these columns or sections are given a headline of “Breaking News,” “News Updates” or “Latest Headline.” Readers, I believe, expect to find just that — current news of some significance, be that crime, political or weather-related stories, etc. […]
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Oprah endorses Obama, my vote’s for Twitter
December 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Recently there have been about a half dozen blog posts about Twitter as a potential tool for newsrooms. Most recently, Steve Outing wrote about the idea of City Desk editors using Twitter to cover breaking news. Other pieces cover a variety of related ideas and are listed below, in case you haven’t read them yet. […]
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How newspapers can solve their “crime problem”
November 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Ok, so it didn’t take long for me to violate one of my own rules for this blog – thou shalt never point out a problem without offering a solution. In my Monday post “On Sunday, murder is an easy sale,†I wrote about how I believe that TV news and newspapers are drawn to […]
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