Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Modern Journalist reader TJ, webmaster for WWJ 950 in Detroit, instant messaged me a story about the top eight Ohio newspapers sharing content with each other.
It seems the top papers, which are spread geographically far enough that there is little competition between them, have set up an Intranet ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I'm always tickled when people roll out metrics online as a measure of how well a site is doing. At the end of the day, there's really only one metric that matters: revenues.
There are levers that you can adjust: inventory rates and pricing (although if you ask most site producers ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The relationship between the Web and print staffs (and yes, it's still plural) is always going to be contentious, at least until the print folks realize that the king is dead. Long live the king.
I'm reminded of this while perusing American Journalism Review, reading this article, Enough is Enough, a ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
A new company -- Trapster -- allows motorists to alert drivers to police speed traps by using their cell phones. This isn't a website, it's a mobile network that updates people as they are on the move. A far more effective use of technology than a mashup map because ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The Internet Advertising Bureau has a series of studies on its site that track the local ad market throughout the last few years. There's loads of information, but the one fact that stood out: the local online advertising economy was expected to sustain local papers and television stations. By ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I'm trying not to keep my brain from exploding inside my skull, but the more I read stories that explain to journalists what a good interactive, multi-media presentation should look like, the more difficult it becomes. Let me try to explain. The National Press Photographers Association has an online ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
The Newspaper Association of America announced that 2007 revenues dropped 9.4 percent, the largest single year drop since the industry tracked advertising metrics. That's not great news. Of course, online revenues continued to climb -- 18.8 percent -- although that growth was off the 31.4 percent growth ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
That's the quote that jumped out at me while I was reading (the first page) of The New Yorker article by Eric Alteramn.
It's a scathing review of the industry, which is exactly the kind of review the industry needs. This week alone I've had a half-dozen new media types instant ...
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