Category Archives: New Media
The Web strategy hamster wheel
Today our company’s CEO paid us a visit. To mark the occasion, we had a meeting to talk about how much content our paper should be putting online.
Our corporate owners have a policy about how much content we and the other papers should be putting online for free. I won’t give a number, but [...]
The perils of centralization
My paper’s Web site is down tonight. I don’t know if it’s scheduled maintenance or not. I assume if this is scheduled maintenance that I didn’t get the memo. As the Web editor, I should get those memos.
I think it likely that it’s not scheduled maintenance, and here’s why. The main Web site for the [...]
Listen and talk, but listen more
Jason Fry at Reinventing the Newsroom uses a strained metaphor to suggest a good idea: that news organizations start listening as much as they are talking.
Yes, most news sites and blogs allow commenting these days, and many journalists are using sites and services that let them deliver the news immediately, which is when readers seem [...]
Posted in New Media Tagged Old Media New Tricks, Reinventing the Newsroom, Robert Quigley, Social Media, Social Networking, Steven Fry 2 Comments
Nielsen: News is somewhere between the stuff people will and won’t pay for online
A Nielsen poll showed that consumers are more likely to pay for content online that they have paid for offline, such as movies, music and games. They are less likely to pay for things that can be generated at home for little or no cost, like blogs and social networks, Nielsen says.
One problem:
In between are [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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