Interesting piece by Edward Wasserman on MiamiHerald.com today. In “Journalism becoming a consumer product” Wasserman quotes from my “Get the most from your online data” post. Also included in the piece is Random Mumbling’s Jack Lail. Wasserman has an interesting argument and the piece is worth checking out. For those of you not familiar with […]
Entries from January 2008
Columnist finds fault with pay proposals – UPDATED
January 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Blogging · Compensation · Editor on the verge
Show your editor some love and win free coffee
January 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
In some of the feedback that I received to my “Newsroom leaders, change or step aside” post, readers noted that surely there must be senior editors who could be role models for the rest of the newspaper industry. I included News & Record Editor John Robinson in my post as one such example. But honestly, […]
Tags: Best Practices · Contests · Editor on the verge · Industry · Innovation · Leadership · Online
A post that gets people talking
January 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Response to my “Newsroom leaders, change or step aside” post has come fast and in some cases, furious. But I wanted to share two posts that were written in response that I feel represent the range of emotions the piece generated. David Cohn at DigiDave posted “A Morning Response: We Don’t Need Newsroom Leadership, We […]
Tags: Best Practices · Editor on the verge · Industry · Innovation · Leadership · Online
This is not how to treat your readers
January 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Don’t do this to your readers. This is why you should test your site before you launch. Take that extra day or two or three and make sure everything, including your links, work and that you’ve remembered to remove dummy copy.
Tags: Best Practices · Design · Industry · Online · Traffic