Journalism, Technology, History

Another Top 10

I like this Top Ten Newspapers Web site list, too. It was done by Howard Owens, director of Digital Publishing at Gatehouse Media, who took issue with some of the picks in the Bivings Group Top 10 earlier this week....

A peek out the box

Some of my younger co-workers say their perception of out-of-the-box thinking at a newspaper is of someone ever-so-slightly opening the top of the box and taking a furtive glance; maybe on a bold day, cautiously extending a moistened finger to...

Maybe we're missing the picture?

Even with newspaper video, the reruns can be better. Some fascinating discussion on low-end vs high-end video (does there have to be a versus?). I think this is an important discussion. Newspapers have a disruptive opportunity with video that shouldn’t...

A bludgeon for Blodgett

Are newspapers irreconcilably screwed as Internet economy analyst Henry Blodgett says. London-based strategic analyst Seamus McCauley says no, but he doesn’t see happy days for lots of them either. Blodgett’s argument and the argument of many others is that we’re...

Building bridges before a disaster

Is Twitter the future of breaking news? A post by David Erickson has a fantastic collection of how people (as opposed to the nada phrase “Citizen Journalist”) covered the Minneapolis bridge collapse. Be sure to browse that. Erickson is an...

The book just takes up space for me

In early 2006, according to Greg Sterling, the Kelsey Group found print Yellow Pages were the “first choice” for local business information. Fast forward a mere year and a half, and a new study from TMP Directional Marketing finds 60...
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