editor on the verge

Increasingly, on newspaper websites, I see “Most Viewed,” “Most popular” and “Most Linked” lists. Having my own blog, I know that these types of features can help increase the amount of time that people spend on a site and interlinking helps spread page rank throughout the site.
But as a visitor to these sites, the lists [...]

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Recent posts by Jack Lail and Patrick Beeson got me wondering about how newspapers use the online data they collect.
On Sunday, Jack wrote a post about the firing of career columnist Penelope Trunk allegedly because “her columns commanded low advertising rates.” He explained that:
“Print media writers look askance at how ratings affect TV news, but [...]

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