Newspaper furniture: Eco-friendly designs for a recession redecoration (1)
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Filed under: Fashion, HomeAlthough designer David Stovell most likely came up with this awesome upcycling furniture concept before the financial meltdown of 2008, I think it's perhaps even more appropriate now that the credit system is in DEFCON 1 disaster mode. The idea is simple: take a bunch of newspapers -- usually abandoned after about 5 minutes or less of enjoyment -- and bind them together with a strap to get a funky kind of ...
LA Times To Be Dumbed-Down To Level Of Own Executives [Newspapers] (1)
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The LA Times is considering a redesign. One of their most prominent proposed changes: changing bylines from "Times Staff Writer" To "By (Person), Reporting From (location)," as shown. The sad, likely reason for this change: the fact that Lee Abrams, Tribune's "Innovation" officer and maker of comical pronouncements about newspapers, came into his job not even understanding what bylines and datelines mean: From an Atlantic interview with Abrams via LAObserved: Abrams: I was in Los ...
MARRAKECH 9.10.38 (1)
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The other daily paper sometimes obtainable is Maroc Matin, illustrated, Casablanca. Much more left wing than the others. Poor paper and print, evidently not prosperous and not much in evidence, in fact seldom obtainable. After the crisis was over everyone here showed great relief and was much less stolid about it than they had been during the trouble itself. Educated Frenchwoman in official position, known to us personally, writes letter of congratulation to Daladier. It ...
Vivement le papier électronique couleur, interactif ! (1)
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« Print is dead ! » Et le web n’assure financièrement pas le relais. Faisons le pari que le salut viendra, en partie, d’un un support électronique souple, en couleur et d’un prix accessible. Plusieurs équipes, dans le monde, mettent, en ce moment, les bouchées doubles pour proposer un « e-paper », qui remplira non seulement ces trois conditions de base, mais qui pourra aussi communiquer et accueillir des contenus « rich-media ». Il faudra ...
Could some newspapers be saved by specialization? (2)
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We know that newspapers are dying. It’s popular in new media circles to talk about the extinction of newspapers altogether, but as I’ve argued here before, that presumption ignores the split between newspapers as a physical print publication, and newspapers as providers or news. I believe that some newspapers (5-10%) will survive, but with an online presence only, as online news providers, even if the models surrounding that end point today aren’t yet clear or ...
آرايش نيروهاي سياسي در آستانه انتخابات (1)
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در آستانه انتخابات رياست جمهوري دهم و در حالي كه عرصه سياسي خود را از مدتها پيش براي صفآرايي نيروها براي رقابتهاي انتخاباتي آماده كرده است، به نظر ميآيد با نگاه بيروني به آرايش نيروهاي سياسي بتوان موقعيت هر يك از گرايشهاي سياسي را مورد ارزيابي قرارداد و چشمانداز ائتلافها و مواضع نيروهاي سياسي را تا حد زيادي ترسيم نمود در آستانه انتخابات رياست جمهوري دهم و در حالي كه عرصه سياسي خود را ...
The End of Dailies (4)
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Hastened by the economic and credit crisis, we are moving ever closer to a moment of catastrophe for one or more major daily newspapers. Sometime in the next few months, we're going to lose one–or it's going to be changed so radically as to be barely recognizable under the current definition of daily newspaper. And given the lemming-like tendencies of the newspaper industry, once one newspaper goes, others will quickly follow.Call it the End of ...
UK newspapers in the Google time tunnel (1)
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With everyone keenly paging through Google's 2001 search index, I thought it might be interesting to see how our British national newspapers were faring on Google back at the turn of the decade, and how their sites are represented in the Internet Archive. Daily Express Searching for the Daily Express in 2001 turned up express.co.uk at number 3 on Google. The homepage that Google links to shows that the attention of the Express was firmly ...
The Power of Profiles (10)
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I visited the New York Times today and saw this at the top of the front page: For those of you with good eyes, that's my avatar on the upper left and that top banner is something that is called TimesPeople. It's a profile based service for sharing stories with friends and colleagues on the New York Times website. TimesPeople also has a facebook app which I installed today. This is an important step for ...
The media forgets it is in the being useful business (3)
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A lot of media entities -- and the journalists who work for them -- think they are in the news business and all of their strategies and initiatives are wrapped around that concept.But despite the much-burnished reputation of the Fourth Estate and the unchallengeable value of a Free Press, that's not the business they are in -- not at all. Media companies are in the business of being useful, useful with information that people consider ...
Layoffs hit The Spokesman-Review hard (3)
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It has been a trying week at my newspaper The Spokesman-Review. It didn’t start out that way. Last weekend, co-worker, Multimedia Producer Brian Immel and I drove down to Portland, Oregon to give a couple of presentations on multimedia storytelling and editing at the NPPA’s Flying Short Course. On the six-hour drive home, conversation turned to innovative ideas about how we could improve our new website that was just about to launch. As the sun ...
The blogging platform of choice for Main Stream Media (7)
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Most people compare blog sites and bloggers to main stream media. I am not sure I agree 100%, but lets go with that assumption. The top 20 US newspapers, or main stream media newspapers with the largest circulation currently (and also mostly by website statistics) are listed below and their blogs. Side note: In the top 20 newspapers worldwide, USA Today does not appear in the top 15, so keep that in mind. But on ...
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Looking for a blog platform? Here's a breakdown of what some of the top publishers use and why.
Clay Shirky tells AOP conference: ‘don’t believe in the myth of quality’ | The Wire | Press Gazette (2)
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Online publishers mistakenly believe their users will only engage in high quality content and are misjudging their young audiences, according to academic and writer Clay Shirky. Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, was the closing speaker at yesterday’s Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Summit and told the assembled executives and online experts that they were [...]
Which CMS do they use in online journalism utopia? | Martin Stabe (1)
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Martin Stabe summarises key points from Making Online News, a collection of academic articles edited by Chris Paterson and David Domingo: "The article is essential reading for any newsroom manager. A CMS with poor backend usability will engender bad practices as journalists cut corners while striving for immediacy or some other ideal. The same is true of a brilliant CMS delivered with badly-executed templates that journalists can’t fix. Never mind the cool stuff we’d all ...
Your newspaper won't be delivered today, or ever (1)
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Filed under: Industry, Gannett Co (GCI), Economic data, Financial CrisisMany of the large newspaper chain purchases over the last several years have involved tremendous borrowing and the banks are at the door with eviction notices. Even the big companies in the industry are having trouble. According to The Wall Street Journal, Gannett, Inc. (NYSE:GCI) the country's largest newspaper publisher, said Wednesday it had tapped its credit line as short-term financing markets stall. Several other chains, ...
It’s time to relieve the stress of RSS. Newspapers, make your own readers! | Online Journalism Blog (4)
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(This entry was originally posted by Dave Lee on jBlog) A few days ago on this blog, Paul Bradshaw wrote what he called one of the most important posts he’s ever made. Here it is. In it he describes how the era of the awkward, socially backward geek is nearly behind us. They’re not geeks, he says, they’re early adopters. And you’d better listen to them if you want to stay a step ahead of ...
Oops! Newspapers around the world use SNL pic as official Palin one - VIDEO (17)
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Filed under: Saturday Night Live, Video, Celebrities, Reality-FreeAs I was eating breakfast while flipping the pages of a French local newspaper this morning, my eyes caught the picture above, which accompanied an article about Sarah Palin. I couldn't put my finger on it right away, but I knew there was a problem with this picture. The caption under it says that during interviews, Palin is hesitant, troubled and clumsy but didn't offer more on where ...
What is your strategy for video? (2)
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I get excited when my RSS reader tells me Colin Mulvany, of The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Washington, has put up a new blog post. Colin has taught me a lot about visual storytelling through his online work and his blogs. This new post is particularly good, because he tackles the quality vs. quantity debate about news video online. I especially like his list of 10 questions, the first two of which are: What is ...
Paper that Self-Erases After 24 Hours (31)
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The Paper that Self-Erases Within 24-Hours Recycling's better than sending good paper to the landfill. Even better is not printing in the first place. But there's still a lot of stuff that comes out of printers and some studies show that more than 40% gets discarded on the day it was produced (and a lot of the rest gets discarded not much later, or gets stuffed in a box and is never looked at again). ...
