An iPad strategy is only as good as the information flow
Calls for community newspapers to have a strategy for the iPad are misguided — unless they’re really suggesting a whole new way of gathering and presenting information.
Got multiple calendars in print? Make a go-and-do column instead.
Sometimes making a connection with a networked, busy reader involves simply tweaking the process of news to fit a modern lifestyle: those with a “If news is important it’ll find me” kind of approach.
Video: So now you’ve overthrown the tyranny of reporters. Now what?
Watch me at IgniteCorvallis II talking about some ideas for local news and why I think the best time to be a journalist is right now.
The elephant in the college town: university news and communications
Universities in college towns have communication staffs that rival or exceed the number of journalists at the local paper. Is it cool to publish the university’s science writing when your newsroom can’t get it done?
Using twitter for journalism panel
Reread the liveblog of a really great panel on using Twitter for journalism I was invited to sit in on thanks to some sharp folks at the University of Oregon j-school.
Gulp. I just dropped the last two newspaper headline feeds from my reader.
Did I just join the “if news is important it’ll find me” generation? I think maybe so.
Creating distinct roles for print and online
I was asked by my boss this week to respond to some strategic planning coming from the company, specifically related to crafting distinct roles for print and online in newsrooms. Here’s my take on making that happen.
What do Lake Wobegon and journalism’s ‘golden days’ have in common?
A colleague forwarded a quote this morning from Garrison Keillor, of “Prairie Home Companion” fame: “This is the beauty of the new media: it isn’t so transitory as newspapers and TV. Good stuff sticks around and people email it to friends and it slowly floods the country. What the new media age also means is [...]
“One size” solutions don’t really fit anyone
Ryan Sholin posts this morning on a topic that has kind of rankled me for some time now: blanket pronouncements about about what “newspapers” should or shouldn’t do. …if you’re in the business of publishing pronouncements, predictions, prayers, analysis, criticism, or full on takedowns related to the current state of the newspaper industry, please understand [...]
Associated Press DRM gets there the hard way. Wherever ‘there’ is.
Have you seen AP’s new “protective format” for tracking and charging for links? I most certainly don’t understand how this is supposed to work. For that, have a look at Steve Yelvington’s excellent post. But the convoluted diagram does remind me of other ‘inventions’:
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