Newspaper Website Performance: More than Just the Features

Inspired by our meeting last week with LA Times reporter T. Christian  Miller, I decided to take a closer look at some of our data from the newspaper study we conducted this summer.  I wanted to see how the online versions of newspapers are performing compared to their print circulations.  The findings were interesting and indicate that there are many ...

The LA Times’ Tries to Get Healthy

Recently word got out that the Los Angeles Times is using it's own investigative reporters to help chart the future of the newspaper both online and in print.   According to the New York Times, the LA Times "is dedicating three investigative reporters and half a dozen editors to find ideas, at home and abroad,...

Link Roundup

This is one of those weeks where I've got more material than time.  So here are some quick thoughts on some things that have been floating around my browser this week.

(1) A new startup launched this week called Grand Central.  According to Life Hacker, Grand Central "lets you consolidate all of your phone numbers into one number,...

Ways to Improve Newspaper Websites: Responses

Our recent post, 9 Ways to Improve Newspaper websites, has received a great deal of blogger response in the past few weeks.  TBR's most popular post of all time, "9 Ways" was linked to by over 120 blogs, according to Technorati.  Below is a roundup of some of the most insightful responses to our suggestions for newspaper website improvements....

Network News Site: The Good News and Bad News

Our recent discussions about the national and international newspaper industry got me thinking: I wonder how network news sites measure up? Are the sites of some of the United States’ most popular news networks better or worse than those of their print competitors?...