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An ancient list of digital newspapers
David Carlson reminded me today of a list I created in November 1993 of all the U.S. newspapers I knew of that had electronic new services. It wasn’t a long list. From [email protected] Wed Dec 1 15:13:53 1993Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 20:45:13 -0500From: jack lail <[email protected]>Reply to: Computer-assisted Reporting & Research <[email protected]>To: Multiple recipients…
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Social media drives traffic, but the prize is direct users
Facebook is an important source of website referrals for many news outlets, but the users who arrive via Facebook spend far less time and consume far fewer pages than those who arrive directly. The same is true of users arriving by search. Our analysis of comScore data found visitors who go to a news media…
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Evolving is a painful process
For many, working at a newspaper doesn’t seem all that fun anymore. Chas Sisk had had enough. The Tennessean had just fired Sisk and the entire staff of the paper the day before and asked them to reapply for their jobs. The reorganization was announced in the paper by executive editor Stefanie Murray as a…