I just spent a couple hours working on a project in which I had to identify the location of a couple of hundred news websites. This task was tougher than it should have been.
While many of the sites I visited are pretty and slick, I had a hard time figuring out where the TV or radio stations and newspapers are located,...
Continue Reading“It’s a big-picture site, for big-picture thinkers” according to Managing Editor Christopher Jones and although I’ve not been guilty of any big-picture thinking lately, I do like a big shiny picture on a web site’s home page as much as the next adult A-D-D sufferer....
Continue ReadingWe've talked a good amount on this blog about the value of hyper-local and niche content in the media. Mark Glaser from PBS Mediashift had a great post a couple of days ago talking about the value and difficulty of getting locally-based sites maintained by citizen journalists off the ground. ...
Continue ReadingDagsbrun, an Icelandic publishing company, is launching free daily newspapers in 10 U.S. cities in the coming months, and blog content will make a significant portion of each issue.
According to a report from WBUR’s Curt Nickisch on today’s Morning Edition from NPR, BostonNOW — which starts circulation today —...
Continue ReadingFollowing is the first paragraph or so of an email pitch I just got from an employee at one of the five largest PR firms in the world. I have liberally edited the email to protect the identity of the client, PR firm and specific person responsible. Changed stuff is in caps....
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