editor on the verge

Online musings from the newsroom and beyond . . . by Yoni Greenbaum

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Online story presentation: Give me a break

February 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Too many newspaper websites are simply online recreations of their printed products. These sites do little to take advantage of the opportunities being online provide. And worse, what bad habits they have in print, they replicate online. Case in point — long stories. It is well known that “lack of time” is one of the […]

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Tags: Audience Development · Best Practices · Industry · Innovation · Online · Reporting · Traffic

Data done wrong

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Data is all the rage nowadays. From Gannett’s Asbury Park Press’s DataUniverse to Roanoke’s DataSphere it seems as if every newspaper wants to have an online portion of their website devoted to showing off their data prowess. But there is a problem with many of these sites. In addition to being what Matt Waite so […]

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Tags: Analytics · Best Practices · Data · Industry · Innovation · Online · Traffic