There are 465 front pages of newspapers from all over the world, fresh today, at the Newseum site. This is a new and much more usable version. The beautiful sharp JPGs, well optimized, load quite fast. You can even sort by region. (Via Joe’s del.icio.us bookmarks.) Technorati tags: newspapers | design
From the LA Times story published Wednesday about the newspaper’s new focus on the Web (story by staff writer James Rainey) — some key points that perhaps some others newspapers ought to heed: Los Angeles Times editor James E. O’Shea “urge[d] The Times’ roughly 940 journalists to throw off a ‘bunker mentality’ and to begin [...]
I’m about to dump — bigtime — on my local daily newspaper, The Gainesville Sun (owned by The New York Times company, by the way). So all you colleagues over there, put on your weatherproof attire and listen up. An RSS feed is really useful to people — if it provides what they are looking [...]
The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pa. (daily circ. 55,000), has been posting a fair amount of video online. What’s more, they have been posting it to Blip.tv as well as their own Web site. It’s very local stuff — check out this flood coverage from a few months ago. Found via an article about Blip.tv courting [...]
ZDNet posted a Reuters story about The Washington Post’s efforts to integrate its two separated newsrooms (also known as “A River Runs Through It”): Starting in January, print editors will “help us at the Web site and at the paper think smartly about more three-dimensional ways that you can present that news,” Post Executive Editor [...]
Don Dodge, director of business development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team, says, “Newspapers should own local search results.” Rob Hyndman, a Toronto lawyer, disagrees. The conversation reminded me of why I prefer Yelp over any newspaper’s local reviews section. I always use Yelp before I travel to any U.S. city. I also post reviews there [...]
Ryan Sholin has rounded up links to the ongoing conversation about online video from news organizations (mostly newspapers) — but as I sometimes do, he stuck his own remarks at the bottom of the post, where you might miss them! So when you click over to Newspaper video: Who shoots it and how do they [...]