My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: newspapers
Handling “unpublishing” requests
Poynter has an interesting article today about how newspapers handle “unpublishing” requests. Kathy English, the public editor of the Toronto Star, surveyed 110 news organizations to find out how they deal with such requests. A majority of news organizations, 78.2 percent, said they would remove content given a good enough reason. Almost all the papers, [...]
The do-nothing newspaper publishers
A small newspaper publisher says ignoring the Internet until somebody else figures it out is the answer. I think he's just plain wrong.
Posted in New Media, Print Culture Also tagged Montana Newspaper Association, publishing, Tom Mullen Comments closed
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 [...]
Thoughts on Pew statistics
About 19 percent of Americans use Twitter or a similar status update service, according to figures from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That’s up from 11 percent of Americans earlier in the year. Other interesting tidbits from the survey: Of those people who have four or more Internet-connected devices, 39 percent use Twitter or [...]
Posted in New Media Also tagged analytics, journalism, Pew, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Social Media, Social Networking, statistics, strategy, twitter Comments closed
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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