By Mindy McAdams
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While marveling at the very idea that 876 people work in editorial at the Los Angeles Times (and catching up on two months of blog reading), I read this:
… the question came to mind — if a newsroom, under economic pressure, can afford to lose 10, 20, 30 or even 50 staff positions now, why [...]
The World Editors Forum asked five prominent newspaper designers to pick their Top 5 newspaper Web site designs:
elpais.com (Spain)
guardian.co.uk (Britain)
globeandmail.com (Canada)
24sata.hr (Croatia)
Times Online (Britain)
I agree that elpais.com is No. 1. I wonder what everyone thinks about the rest of these? (Source.)
I would add the Las Vegas Sun site (some reasons why), and even though it’s [...]
This just came in my e-mail from someone inside the Tampa Tribune:
Do you know about the reorganization they’re doing here at the Trib? They herded everyone into a conference room today to tell them about 21 layoffs that will happen tomorrow (effective immediately) and a new reorganization of the newsroom’s hierarchy. [Update: The newspaper said [...]
“The New York Times is doing all this video for the Business section. If you never look at their Business section online, you’ll never find it.”
My friend Ehrin and I were somewhere in Hanoi, eating pho cuon at a table on the sidewalk, when he told me this. He said the Times has been hiring [...]
From Beet.tv:
The reporters in the print newsroom are integrating video shooting into their normal, everyday storytelling, Chet says.
Awesome post from Melissa Worden:
Looking from the outside in
She explains how she consumes and follows news now that she is no longer a working journalist. She is still a news junkie, obviously — but one who never reads a printed newspaper. And she’s clearly online-savvy.
I subscribe to news Twitter accounts. CNN posts breaking news tweets, [...]
Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com, was answering readers’ questions online for the past five days.
What he looks for when hiring a new employee:
[A]n ideal applicant would have very strong traditional graphic design skills; in-depth training in usability and interaction design; practical experience coding XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash; a commercially viable comfort level with [...]
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