editor on the verge

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

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Do you know where your newspaper is online? – UPDATED

December 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

“If you build it, they will come,” goes the line from the popular Kevin Costner film “Field of Dreams.” Too often though, when it comes to online news operations, that line should read “if you don’t tell anyone you built it, will they still come?” Increasingly newspaper websites are embracing social news/networking sites. You see […]

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Tags: Best Practices · Industry · Innovation · Online · YouTube

A hire every newspaper should make

December 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I think it is great that the Knight Foundation has decided to create a position for an “Online Community Manager.” On both their website and via a YouTube video, they sum the position up as: “Do you live and breathe the blogosphere and practically live on the Net? Do you have a track record of […]

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Tags: Audience Development · Industry · Online