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
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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.
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