Here's a shocker: An Associated Press editor thinks it's a bad idea for local news organizations to withdraw from the AP. Really? In an awfully one-sided report on E&P, AP's Kathleen Carroll …
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Newspapers: Unlock the vaults to readership and revenue
Go to a lot of online news sites and search the archive, and you'll soon hit a pay wall. If you want to dig into the history of a city, the richest repository of that information usually wants you to …
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Thieves steal printed newspapers to keep story from being published, forget completely about the internet
This is right up there with video of liquor store thieves falling through drop-ceilings. Apparently some person or persons wanted to "stop the presses" on a story about a college homecoming queen …
If your site can’t handle inbound Drudge traffic, are you really in the news business when it matters?
Seriously. If your calendar says 2008 or later, and you're a metro-market news site, and you can't handle a wave of traffic from Drudge or Digg or Slashdot or any of the popular linkfarms, you should …
Just because you have a tool, doesn’t mean you have to always use it
I like what two Liverpool newspapers are doing: geotagging certain news stories and plotting them on a map. But I like what they're not doing even better: tagging every single story. “We don’t use …
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J-school wants geeks, will pay
J-schools are far from blameless for the lagging state of modern journalism, but at least Medill is doing something about it. Through an ad in the free version of Twitterific, I just saw that the …