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May 25, 2006

Raising the moss curtain on a participative website

- yelvington.com -

Awhile back I mentioned a project that we had in the works. The curtain has been lifted, partially, with the "preview" launch at new.savannahnow.com of an all-new community website associated with the Savannah Morning News. In a matter of... ›››

Category: Newspapers

AJR: Newspapers adapting to Internet. Really.

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Rachel Smolkin at American Journalism Review writes that newspaper leadership won't just roll over and die at the prospects of the Internet, including (a) being disintermediated, (b) being unbundled, (c) having prices destroyed or (d) any mix of a,... ›››

Category: Advertising | Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | content | interactivity | strategy

May 23, 2006

Two presentations at Poynter

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

I had the profound privilege of participating as visiting faculty at last week's Leadership for Online News Managers seminar at the Poynter Institute. Seminar participants already have the links to my two PowerPoint presentation decks, and I'm sure the... ›››

Category: Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | Search | Technology | content | design | development | interactivity | strategy | usability | user research

May 19, 2006

Star Wars Weekends

- New Media Marketer

For all you Star Wars geeks out there, The St. Petersberg Times and TampaBayOnline.com have a pretty cool Star Wars promotion starting today. The promotion is sponsored Disney MGM Studios and includes a Walt Disney World® Theme Park admission,... ›››

Category: Advertising | E-Business | Newspapers

May 18, 2006

Tagging news for structure, utility

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Adrian Holovaty, one of journalism's smartest people on all things online, proposes some new ways of tagging news stories to give them more useful structures. A news story is intended to be "consumed" by humans, not computers. Indeed, one... ›››

Category: Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | Search | content | design | development | usability

May 17, 2006

Then there were two

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Canwest has announced Dose, it’s nationwide, hip, free daily is no more. (CBC report here.) The title will continue as an online publication, but according to CanWest, 50 people will lose their jobs. I’m not surprised that the plug... ›››

Category: General | Newspapers | canada | dose

Megatrends, megachallenges

- yelvington.com -

I've been noodling on a list of megatrends that present megachallenges for newspapers. What am I missing? Fractured marketplace. We don't have an audience any more; we have lots of little audiences, and some of them are really different.... ›››

Category: JOURNALISM | Newspapers

May 10, 2006

That sinking feeling

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

I couldn’t find anything about this in my local quality daily, but the Globe & Mail is reporting that Vancouver’s daily newspaper circulation continues to shrink. According to the G&M report, Vancouver Sun weekday circulation is down 4.4 per... ›››

Category: General | Newspapers | circulation | vancouver

May 08, 2006

Reporting on rumors (10 "facts" on immigration)

- yelvington.com -

I grew up in a world where editors could make the rules. "We don't report rumors" was one of them. Those days are gone now, and reporting on rumors is one of the major shifts for professional journalism. No,... ›››

Category: JOURNALISM | Newspapers

May 03, 2006

Interactive Home Service Guide

- New Media Marketer

This past weekend we launched our first interactive Home Service Guide. I'm not one to toot my own horn but it turned out great. The vendor we worked with did an awesome job at putting this thing together pretty... ›››

Category: Advertising | Media | News | Newspapers | Web/Tech

May 01, 2006

Wondering about Microsoft/Times e-reader

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

I don't know whether dedicated e-reader devices -- such as the one Microsoft and The New York Times showed off, or the first-generation RCA-branded ones I used to work with in 2000 -- will ever achieve widespread consumer adoption.... ›››

Category: Media | Newspapers | Technology | design | e-newsletter | usability

April 26, 2006

Cauthorn and Defense Minister Challenge Asian Publishers

- Rebuilding Media

Excepts of Bob Cauthorn's speech to the Publish Asia 2006 conference Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur.... ›››

Category: Newspapers

Publish ’til the cows come home, then what?

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Vin Crosbie carries forward analysis by Prof. Robert G. Picard to a troubling conclusion: even with the fanciest of new media strategies in play, newspapers may be doing little more than buying time before death: Even if newspaper Web... ›››

Category: Advertising | Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | content | interactivity | strategy

A Date with the Butcher

- Rebuilding Media

Why the American newspaper industry is doomed unless it makes radical changes, including in its new-media efforts.... ›››

Category: Newspapers

April 25, 2006

Just do it

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Words of wisdom from Alan Mutter: While it is heartening that newspaper folks increasingly recognize the need to compete with the interactive, mobile media, they need to stop trying to evolve their product into a unique, specialized instrument that... ›››

Category: General | Newspapers | epaper

April 23, 2006

Nailing it

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Douglas Fisher has done all of us media-watchers a favour by reporting on media analyst Lauren Rich’s presentation to the American Copy Editors Society convention. There’s a ton in what Doug reports that makes sense. Mixed with optimism about... ›››

Category: General | JOURNALISM | Newspapers | future

April 20, 2006

The business front

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

To resort to movie poster cliché: If you read only one blog post this week, make it this one: Alan Mutter, in Shake, rattle and roil, pulls together three bits of media business news: the apparent impending sale of... ›››

Category: General | Newspapers | business | medianews | nytimes

April 19, 2006

Some science on the registration question

- yelvington.com -

Kudos to Jay Small for sharing discoveries from a carefully test of registration models at Scripps newspaper sites. In a test at 13 newspaper sites, Scripps modified the so-called threshhold -- the number of "free" pageviews a visitor is... ›››

Category: Newspapers | audience management | registration

Registration evolution at Scripps sites

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

The following item, regarding user registration at sites I work with in my "day job," was also posted to two newspaper industry e-mail lists. My apologies if you've already seen it as a member of either list. At 13... ›››

Category: Advertising | Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | content | design | e-newsletter | marketing | strategy | usability

April 18, 2006

Pulitzers still stuck in a bygone era

- yelvington.com -

E&P's Joe Strupp has a wrapup of how online components figured in the Pulitzer Prizes announced yesterday. While online elements were included in many of the winning entries, they were limited to text and still photographs -- no audio,... ›››

Category: Media | Newspapers | awards

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