21 November 2007
Congressman Mark Steven Kirk - 10th District of Illinois
This Congressman provides no means for anyone other than his constituents to contact him. I find that offensive.
Turkey Again, Thanks to the Italians - New York Times
The video here is really helpful. What a great supplement to the printed recipe!
29 October 2007
"In Canada, a New Newspaper Faces Off Against a Well-Established Family" - New York Times
There remains something very enticing about starting a newspaper......despite how very hard it is to do.
04 October 2007
03 October 2007
16 September 2007
Steph Jespersen -- Talk to The Times -- The New York Times -- Reader Questions and Answers - New York Times
Does Billy BLOGGER have such a position?
15 September 2007
Young Players, Serious Injuries - The New York Times
Another on long list of why newspapers as institutions are still so important. Who is likely to do this kind of story other than an institution like the NYTimes? Local newspapers ought to understand again why this kind of reporting is so important and why the resources are worth allocating to make it happen. To make it successful, however, readers and POTENTIAL readers need to be told of what is being done. In the case of this story, links ought to be circulated to every high school in the US, including every high school newspaper.
14 September 2007
NYTimes "letter to the editor"
This is a superb demonstration of what is so critical about the expertise and ability of The New York Times. Would Billy Blogger have put this in the context that it deserves and got here? This is testament to the importance of combining superb reporting with a commitment to air competing views. Out of a multitude of voices, the truth does indeed emerge.
13 September 2007
12 September 2007
Iraq
It is quite astounding how little we hear from Iraqi newspapers (or other media) about what they are doing or saying. While there has been some recently in connection with the PETRAEUS/CROCKER testimonies, it's really very little and it speaks very little to what Iraqi media are telling their readers and other customers. Cannot we do a better job of following what they are doing?
08 September 2007
Troop Buildup, Yielding Slight Gains, Fails to Meet U.S. Goals - New York Times
It sure is hard to imagine Billy Blogger ever producing this kind of reporting. Period. It's a superb piece of the reason that newspapers are still so important to all of us.
02 September 2007
Turning the Tribes in Iraq | The New York Times
A fine demonstration of how one can combine the expertise (Michael GORDON and his photographer) of the New York Times - a newspaper - and the power of graphics and audio on the web to produce quality journalism in the internet medium.
01 September 2007
China's Influence Spreads Around World - New York Times
When reading a piece like this one, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that the Associated Press is a co-operative owned by most of the daily newspapers in the United States.
Gen Sir Mike Jackson attacks US over Iraq - Telegraph
While this story flows from a financial deal with the author/publisher, it is notable that it appears on a newspaper website instead of any other.
31 August 2007
Printing New York Times blog postings
Almost every time I try to print a posting on one of the NYTimes blogs that are often highlighted on the home page of NYTimes.com, my computer slows/freezes and I have to close out of Internet Explorer in order to move on....without anything printed. I think it has something to do with the huge number of pages that these blogs represent. Would it help if they broke them into smaller numbers, by day, week, etc.?
30 August 2007
Bonner County Daily Bee - Your source for Sandpoint Idaho news and information
What's valuable about this article is that it comes from a close-to-the-Idaho-LOCAL newspaper in the state that Sen CRAIG represents. That's easy to check unlike some entity with a blog who could be that proverbial internet dog. In addition, it's worth noting that this is a news story obviously written by a reporter who knows journalism, again in contrast to so many who think their futures lie in something call "citizen journalism".
Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals - washingtonpost.com
It is hard to imagine an overall confidence level as high as most people would have seeing this story on a leaked document appearing in the Washington Post. If it appeared in some schmuck's opinionated blog, even if accurate, it simply is not as good as that which has gone through the Washington Post's editorial process.
Steelers linemen bid for starting spot - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Most read on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review site.
Local News | Shooting a violent reminder of Mt. Baker's past | Seattle Times Newspaper
The most read story on the Seattle Times site today written by one of their reporters.
Miners unearth world's biggest diamond | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
This is the most read story on the Guardian's site today.
29 August 2007
28 August 2007
27 August 2007
26 August 2007
The New York Times > International > Interactive Feature > China - Pollution - Environment - Economy - Choking on Growth
The question that comes to mind when I read this electronically and in print is who would do this if there is no New York Times? Billy Blogger? The Drudge Report? A wikiwonder?
That's my first observation.
My second is equally troubling. Very few other news organizations have mentioned this - for competitive or jealousy reasons - today. What a shame; the others ought to think - however hard they find that to do- a little about what is lost by not calling attention to this reporting. (For example, a search in Google News on "choking on growth" returns zero links.)
That's my first observation.
My second is equally troubling. Very few other news organizations have mentioned this - for competitive or jealousy reasons - today. What a shame; the others ought to think - however hard they find that to do- a little about what is lost by not calling attention to this reporting. (For example, a search in Google News on "choking on growth" returns zero links.)
23 August 2007
Le Monde.fr : Monster, victime d'un piratage, perd 1,3 million de noms
Imagine this ever happening to a traditional newspaper?
Advertising Age - VIDEO: "Anchorwoman" Crashes Hollywood Fluff into TV Journalism
Not the sort of thing we traditionally associate with newspapers, is it? Perhaps this program will further highlight the "fluff" that remains most of local television "news".
22 August 2007
21 August 2007
18 August 2007
"Lifting Corporate Fingerprints From the Editing of Wikipedia" - The New York Times
Right or wrong, good newspapers have none of this Wikimischief. I honestly don't see how the problem can be addressed. One what basis, one might ask, do you believe that your favorite newspaper got a story "right" and is there any basis for believing that Wikipedia gets it "right". I don't know what that basis might be.
"Let Bylines be Bygone?" - Poynter Online
There was a time when newspaper bylines really were important.
17 August 2007
Village Events Calendar | Fearrington Village Calendar
Former NYC Mayor Ed KOCH comes to Fearrington regularly because of a close friend who lives there. This time, he'll be talking to anyone who comes to listen on 1 September.
Welcome to pressnet - Japan
A good way to follow in English some of what is happening in the Japanese newspaper market.
"Now, the Clicking Is to Watch the Ads, Not Skip Them" - The New York Times
I've never understood why newspapers have not been more creative in bringing the value of their print ads to the web. Just cutting and pasting is not good enough. Leaving them out entirely, as most do, is even worse. Surely creative heads could prevail on this.
"Chicago Tribune's Triblocal.com Spawns New Print Papers" - MediaPost Publications
The internet is more of a pre-printing press than some have thought.
"Massacre on A6" - Columbia Journalism Review
Another one of those historic newspaper principles - getting the news to us as fast and as well as possible - that seems to be in jeopardy.
14 August 2007
"New blogad networks... as classies crumble"
The person making the dire predictions about newspapers here is the same Luis UBINAS who has just been named to head the Ford Foundation.
"Some readers are angry, but change must come" -- baltimoresun.com
So much more is needed than these changes.
13 August 2007
"Tools for Print Journalists" - Committee of Concerned Journalists
It seems odd that this should be titled "tools for print journalists". Why only print?
"Pour la presse américaine, le départ de Karl Rove marque la début de la fin de l'administration Bush" - Le Monde
This is the second story in two days in Le Monde, the best known of the Paris-based French dailies, about the views of the "presse" in the US toward an event. Yesterday, it was the hamburger lunch in Me with Presidents BUSH and SARKOZY. Today it is Karl ROVE's departure. What's interesting are the "presse" to which the reporter refers. In this story it is Politico.com, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday, it was the Washington Post, The New York Times, and the LA Times. Not a mention of electronic media other than Politico.com. We all live in our own worlds.
"The graying lady" - Los Angeles Times
This just does not need to happen. There are ways to draw in the very best reporting from other countries and newspapers have done virtually nothing to make that happen. The focus is on the wrong issue. It is not foreign correspondents or foreign bureaus; it is people overseas who can cover a story a well. Surprising to most newspapers, I fear, those people don't have to work for the AP or your own newspaper in order to be really good.
"Natural Selection - National Journal
More from a very thoughtful commentator on those core newspaper principles.
"The Hidden Cost of Newsroom Cuts" - Editor & Publisher
This is no way to keep newspapers afloat. Again, back to historic principles honored more in the breach, but that are worth resurrecting in grand style in the digital age. Why shouldn't the new newspaper be the very best at responding to people who "call"?
"Newspapers are changing to suit readers' tastes" - Los Angeles Times
As traditional newspapers wind down, more and more people will be suggesting that they could avoid the demise of the medium. Here is one more.
"Half of Web time spent viewing content: study" - Reuters
This should be good news for newspapers and their principles and values. The challenge is to translate this trend into value that comes from newspapers on the web.
"'Metro' Columnist Elliott Kalan Fired for Declaring Newspapers Dead" -- New York Magazine
It would be a whole lot better for a newspaper publisher to respond rather than fire this guy. That's one of those principles newspapers ought to be in the business of demonstrating and preserving.
10 August 2007
09 August 2007
"Google News Offers Rebuttal Time" - The Wall Street Journal
Another good example of newspapers being sound asleep at the switch. Newspapers should have figured out a way to do this a long time ago.
08 August 2007
06 August 2007
Push and Pull
The question of whether we like finding the newspaper in front of our homes or prefer to go find it on the web is an important one. A lot of the economics of the news business depend on that answer. Think about the different ways you now get news, the news that's important to you and the news you might like to have had earlier or better. If the obligation is entirely on you to go find "it" somewhere, you may or may not get there ahead of the others in front of whom you would like to be - whether family, friends or others. The concept of delivered news is under assault for the wrong reasons. It merits some reconsideration that does not start off with either the inevitability of the internet or this morning soggy newsprint newspaper.
"Iran shuts down leading reformist paper" - World Association of Newspapers
It's a lot harder to shut down a website.
03 August 2007
02 August 2007
Ninth St. Bakery
Here is the site for one of those local businesses we find represented in various places around CHCHP.
"Editorial pages turn on war" - Politico.com
Newspaper editorials seem to still matter in some places on some subjects.
31 July 2007
"Former ASNE President McGuire on realities the industry faces and ways to overcome a cataclysm" - ASNE
For anyone who cares about newspapers, this is required reading.
"To our readers" The Chicago Tribune
That first page one advertisement is a little hard to pick ou here and there is no link to that first advertiser in either place. This seems to have that advertiser.
30 July 2007
New Life on the Web for a Killed Newspaper Column - New York Times
Newspapers today leak like the internet sieves they have become. There are just too many ways that people can access what a newspaper "has" and too many opportunities for those inside to pass something electronic outside. It's just another attack on an institution that usually has been much more secretive about its work than any government entity the newspaper might have covered.
"Environmentalists Push, but Home Depot Refuses to Drop Ads on Fox News" - The New York Times
What do you suppose Home Depot thinks of newspapers today, in general? Home Depot has not been around for very long in the grand scheme of things. If you plotted the overall importance of the newspaper institution to Home Depot over its life, what do you suppose that line would look like?
"AP Ending Its "asap" Service in October" - Editor & Publisher
So much for that idea on reaching young readers.
"Bancrofts Said Divided as Journal Deadline Looms" - The New York Times
Whether one blames the potential sale of Dow Jones on the decline of family-owned newspapers or on the general decline of printed newspapers, there are principles and values embedded in the institution that is the Wall Street Journal that should be preserved whoever owns it. The greatest tragedy will not be the loss of the Wall Street Journal but rather the loss of the quality commitments made in its news columns and, yes, whether one agrees or disagrees, the quality of the expressions of points of view on the Journal's editorial pages. That's something one has to look very hard to find anywhere in MySpace, Wikipedia or somebody's blog.
29 July 2007
"Dead end" newspaper stories
Why have newspapers not figured out how to keep stories updated in the way that a Wiki entry permits? It's fine to have a historical record of what was published, but why not allow another version to evolve as the facts and circumstances change? In other word, keep the story alive? Very few stories published in newspapers amount to the last word on the matter. Life is like that.
"The Guardian BAE investigation" - Guardian Unlimited
There is no way that this could be presented on newsprint or other paper anywhere near as effectively as it is here.
Sports section advertising
Why is it that newspapers are so unsuccessful in selling advertising in their print sports sections? To what extent is this now true for online sports sections? It seems to me that it is the same, and that while there are some banner ads online, they are not there out of a conscious advertiser decision to appear there in most cases.
"WNBC - News 4 New York" - The New York Times
This will not happen here - the cancelling of a broadcast news program! Such be part of the value of the web, in so many cases, over traditional media.
"Find Browzer's Biscuits" - News & Observer
Newspapers in recent years, especially outside the US, have used really odd promotional gimmicks in order to get people to buy copies. To the extent that anyone views this as a plus, count it as a plus on line too as evidenced here by "Browzer's Biscuits".
28 July 2007
"Stupeur" à la Tribune après les déclaration de Bernard Arnault (LVMH)" - Agence France Presse
Another newspaper owner - this time in Paris - announces that his newly-acquired financial daily (La Tribune) is effectively impossible to make profitable.
27 July 2007
"Four die in mid-air chopper crash" - smh.com.au
I don't know of a single incident in which a newspaper reporter has ever died in one of these tragic incidents involving useless activity in the false name of news. Management remorse over sending these people to their death seems to be missing here or here. Bravo to Jeff Jarvis for making the discouraging point so well.
26 July 2007
iGoogle and The New York Times
One of the positives of newspapers as we known them in print is there front page. The New York Times has preserved a lot of the Page One value in their website. It is lost completely in iGoogle if you add the NYT as a news source. Creative people ought to be able to solve this. Some of the comments on this page suggest that others agree that there is much work to be done.
Bill MOYERS making the transition
People in the newspaper business have made the move from print to the digital world at different times and at different speeds. Bill MOYERS is still in process, but look at his bio and see where he started and some of the newspaper things he has done in his life. Then look at where you find him today - yes, broadcast on PBS - but also unleashing some of the power of the web to provide more value to the people who want to relate to him better than they could at a newspaper.
Reorienting....
We are going to try to use this blog as a way to do several things. One will be to recognize that the newspaper as a primarily print insitution is beginning its inevitable decline. Another is that the qualities and values we associate with newspapers are worth keeping.
From that base, we'll try to help you use this and related offerings as a way to profit from the new newspaper of the web here at Newspaper.com and to chronicle the changes in the newspaper world as newspapers everywhere move in this direction.
Eventually, we hope to be the survivor in a process that will take time.
For now, think of us as the place with what's new and valuable from and about newspapers and a great way to help ease your and their transition from the print newspaper of yesterday to this web newspaper of tomorrow.
We hope Newspaper.com will be as good as any print newspaper you can remember and better than most.
Roll those digital presses!!!!
From that base, we'll try to help you use this and related offerings as a way to profit from the new newspaper of the web here at Newspaper.com and to chronicle the changes in the newspaper world as newspapers everywhere move in this direction.
Eventually, we hope to be the survivor in a process that will take time.
For now, think of us as the place with what's new and valuable from and about newspapers and a great way to help ease your and their transition from the print newspaper of yesterday to this web newspaper of tomorrow.
We hope Newspaper.com will be as good as any print newspaper you can remember and better than most.
Roll those digital presses!!!!
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