By Mindy McAdams
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The good news is, LATimes.com is getting 20 million uniques a month — and that is “about double what it was this time last year,” according to Meredith Artley, executive editor, LATimes.com.
The bad news is, they still haven’t fully merged the newsrooms (and the financial crisis might drive Sam Zell to do something drastic, but [...]
How many people look at an animated infographic on a news Web site?
“I would say 10,000 is a good number for us,” said Keith Claxton, an infographics journalist at the Chicago Tribune.
That would be a great number of pageviews for, say, a post on my little blog. But for a news site on the scale [...]
In a widespread breaking-news situation such as the recent fires in California, a lot of news organizations would like the public to send in photos, video and reports from the ground. A post at the Veeker blog describes how the Veeker platform made it easy for KNSD-TV (NBC San Diego) to manage 1,704 viewer-contributed pictures [...]
Xaquin Gonzalez Veira compared online news organizations’ maps of the California fires last week. Gonzalez, the assistant art director at Newsweek who is responsible for the magazine’s online interactive graphics, writes his blog in Spanish, so I have taken the liberty of translating and paraphrasing his post: California en llamas (California in flames).
Gonzalez had [...]
… at Clicked — a blog from MSNBC.com that’s about breaking news online.
Clicked offers a wide-ranging look at who is covering the fires, and how they’re doing it.
Update (10:32 a.m.): USA Today has two very cool fire features online — a continually updated fire map, and an explanatory graphic that shows how that map is [...]
CBS News 8 is Web publishing TV graphics of the huge fires in southern California.
They replaced the whole home page with fire coverage. Nice breaking news work online — from a TV operation!
Tip via Lost Remote (other sites doing same; see detailed Google Map from LATimes.com).
Where I live, in north-central Florida, our eyes are burning, our throats dry, our sinuses ravaged. Smoke fills the air. The smell permeates our homes and offices. Monday night, ashes flew like snowflakes about the campus. (See photo, photo, photo.)
Kay Day is covering the story in her blog, complete with maps and resource links.
At [...]
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