By Mindy McAdams
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I admire the journalists at The Spokesman-Review, in Spokane, Washington. They are doing great work in online video, redesigning their Web site, listening to their young staffers, and practicing transparency.
Now their editor, Steven A. Smith, has posted an account of how and why the newspaper fought to have a horrifying video (of the torture and [...]
So I was thinking, as I read this Gawker post (because Will Sullivan linked to it, and I look at almost everything Will links to, except the Lego things), that maybe there’s a parallel between what happened to daily newspapers and … Walmart. You know, an enterprise gets big, then bigger, and wipes out all [...]
Jack Lail, managing editor/multimedia at The Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, wrote a comprehensive post about allowing online comments on newspaper Web sites. It’s an excellent treatment of the topic and well worth reading for both journalists and journalism students.
Commenting and comment management systems will evolve for newspaper Web sites. We’re at 1.0 versions for managing large-scale [...]
The exclamations of amazement and disgust (x 2) at the Philadelphia Inquirer’s new online policy (or should we say non-online policy? Anti-online policy?) reminded me of something someone told me yesterday about a discussion in a newsroom, very recently, at a large metro daily. (Sorry, I’m not allowed to say which one.)
In a meeting in [...]
On my vacation, I spent four days in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The newspaper there, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, made a strong impression on me. I picked up the print edition at breakfast time on Friday, and I liked it so much, I bought one each day after that.
I liked the layout, the type families, [...]
Having survived two weeks’ absence from my RSS feeds (vacation!), I have a lot of catching up to do. These three posts from Andy Dickinson are at the top of my list.
How the broadsheets use video:
The Telegraph
Financial Times
The Guardian
Then there’s a New York Times feature from last Sunday. Let me entice you with a quotation:
Nadia [...]
People are talking and blogging about what will happen to washingtonpost.com and its staff as the new executive editor, Marcus Brauchli, takes the helm in the print newsroom. There’s not much yet.
Mediabistro has a memo from WPNI COO Jen Moyer announcing plans to depart on Sept. 1.
E&P interviewed Jim Brady; he says he expects the [...]
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