A headline the other day in The New York Times caught my eye: Local Papers Shine Light in Society’s Dark Corners. The gist of the story: The “Road Warrior” columnist at The Record (Bergen County, northern New Jersey) focused on a massive traffic tie-up, the paper kept digging and N.J. Gov. Chris Christie now is […]
That would be: Welcome, Olympians. Speak Russian? Try this site: http://www.gazeta.ru/sochi2014/ Speak English? Try this site: http://widget.breakingburner.com/amplifinder/desktop.html?k=OlympicGames/the-2014-winter-olympics And keep an eye on the Dutch team’s Olympics site – http://www.nocnsf.nl And: http://www.nocnsf.nl/cms/showpage.aspx?id=15508 The common link between these three presentations, beside the Olympics? Each uses technology from Dutch company Crowdynews to aggregate all varieties of social media […]
There are sleepier TV markets, but Savannah still has to rank as one of the quieter TV spots in the country. Isolated from Atlanta, along the Southeast Georgia coast, a beautiful, bustling town, but not the big city. When living there decades ago, I recall a top local station leading the news with Cap’n Sandy, […]
Yes, perhaps a strange headline to type as AOL continues to struggle with profitability for its ambitious hyperlocal Patch operation. Yes, perhaps a strange headline to type after open-mike oddities during a recent staff call announcing cutbacks. And, sure, some folks love to chortle on Facebook when they find the occasional very, very local, nonsensical […]
Check out the Prudential ad across the top of nytimes.com. A great burst of creativity and ingenuity, which makes you click through to see what’s going on. Plug in your birth date and year, and you’ll see the cover of The New York Times on the day you were born. To pull it off, The […]
On March 1, in Austin at a meeting of the Texas Student Media board, there will be a discussion about cutting publication days of the 113-year-old Daily Texan, always one of the best collegiate papers in the U.S. Okay, you say, some non-student papers are moving to reduced publication. But those drastic steps are taken […]
On the Great Big Map of U.S. Newspapers, you’ll find about 8,400 flags – 1,400 daily papers and 7,000 community newspapers. Though a struggling industry, it is still a gigantic industry that is working to reinvent itself. Times are challenging and the reinvention is not unlike repairing a plane while it’s in the air. Along […]
A survey of 180 U.S. newspapers on their digital transition efforts shows steady growth in revenue from digital sales, but challenges remain in establishing sales approaches that maximize digital revenue. The confidential survey was conducted by Media Solutions Partners, an Atlanta-based consulting group focusing on helping newspapers transition into a successful digital environment. The survey […]
In the days of 30 percent margins, 700,000 circulation Sunday papers and 500-staffer newsrooms, the copy desk chief walked into my office and said, “We have two people out on the sports desk the next two days; I don’t know how we can get the job done.” Everything is relative to the time you are […]
Content, Digital, Innovation, Newspapers, Social MediaAppropriately, I drove through rain, snow, sleet, horizontal wind-whipped rain, mountain-top mist and a bit of sun from Pittsburgh to State College, Pa. and my destination, AccuWeather. Appropriately, AccuWeather is located on Science Park Road, not far from downtown and Penn State. “Look for the building with all the satellite dishes,” my AccuWeather colleague suggested. […]
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