Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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One of the most interesting propositions for newspapers is the overhaul of the business section.
There are more opportunities for important -- and audience-capturing -- features in this section than any other simply because, other than sports, the section relies more on raw data and numbers.
Traditional business papers should, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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One of the rather disturbing trends I have experienced in my talks with newspaper folks is there insistence on latching on to the latest trend.
It's easy to get caught up in the mix. After all, new technologies roll out every day and if you're not careful, you can ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Normally, I try to add something to the conversation whenever I read articles and speeches, but there are times when I think it's best left to the words of those delivering the message.
This is one of those cases.
John S. Carroll is the former editor of several papers and he delivered ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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I was speaking with Joe, a former Cincinnati Post writer working to launch a local news organization called CinDaily, about what a modern newspaper should look like.
Our discussions are good for him, I think, but I know they are good for me. They help me start to outline ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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The Zogby International polling group surveyed newspaper editors and found that most editors believe the newspaper of the future will have three features:
they will be free
they will have more opinion
they will include more comments
The report goes on to say that 30 percent of those editors survey wanted to ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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I've been toying around with social media all day today, discussing the future of media with lots of smart friends -- particularly those who think that I'm a little half-cocked and off my rocker when it comes to the future of journalism.
It's good, mostly. It certainly ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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Part of my lectures on the future of media are spent railing against newspapers companies inability to innovate in publishing, the very field they are the so-called experts in.
How, I ask, could a newspaper not have invented one of the first blogging content management system? These are simple ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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The New York Times has a story about that traces how IDG, one of the largest tech news publishers, turned InfoWorld from a failing print magazine into a wildly profitable online-news operation.
There's two things that stand out to me from this piece:
how incredibly "duh" much of what the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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Pulitzer Prize winning business writer Steve Pearlstein gave a talk at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference this week. Unbeknownst to me, the solution to the news industry's failings have already been figured out.
You can read the full story here, but check out this excerpt:
“And ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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All the blog research says that you're headlines should be of a positive nature to attract readers. I don't always do that. I'm doing it right now.
::Props::
I've been scanning The Wired Journalist site, a place where journalists can congregate to discuss what's going on at the papers -- ...
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