As a follow-up to our research on newspaper websites that we published recently, we decided to break out a list of the best examples of “good” newspaper websites. Steve, Todd and I collaborated on the following list, judging sites not only on their web features but also on the design,...
Continue ReadingLast week The New York Time purchased [clarification: the paper is, as Jeff Jarvis notes, "hosting it, selling ads on it, promoting it, but not buying it or hiring its creators"] the sometimes irreverent Freakonomics blog run by University of Chicago economist Dr. Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner. Clearly the newspaper saw that this informative blog had a community worth transplanting to its web site....
Continue ReadingI’m a big fan of the Facebook, MySpace and Technorati stats TechPresident is keeping on the 2008 Presidential candidates. These stats are a good measure of the amount of traction each candidate is getting in those communities and on the web overall.
The YouTube stats, however, are really deceptive due to the vastly different ways candidates are using YouTube....
Continue ReadingLike Erin, I enjoyed attending the Journalism That Matters conference this week. Although a panel discussion that concluded with a bleak prognosis for the current mainstream news media business model kicked off the event, the dreariness only surrounded the business model, not the craft of journalism.
However, many veteran journalists felt threatened by the conference's tone towards traditional journalism as it focused on "citizen journalism's"...
Continue ReadingSteve Petersen and I just spent the last two days at a conference here in DC called Journalism that Matters. I went with the intention of figuring out what the business plan will be for newspapers as we move deeper into the digital era. I didn't quite figure this out,...
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