Why I hate the word, not the concept, of hyperlocal
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I disagree with the concept. It’s just the word I don’t like. Hyperlocal is just local isn’t…
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Trying stuff is cheaper than deciding whether to do stuff
A new standard may have been set when it comes to the time it takes to implement an innovative idea in the online journalism…
Video: Newsroom of the future
A little while ago I wrote a post about the perfect newsroom. Here is more on that topic. I came across a video of…
Running newspaper web sites on Drupal
It turns out there is a blog about newspapers using the Drupal content management platform. I’d really like to do a project on the…
Puppies and Iraq
Billionaire and Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell is just phenomenal. If you haven’t seen the video of him telling a photographer at the Orlando…
The perfect newsroom
Why is it that I seem to get more accomplished sitting in a coffee shop with my laptop than I do sitting at my…
Be everywhere
Newsrooms can’t be everything to everybody, but we can be everywhere. That is a hard concept to accept for most traditional journalist. The industry…
A network of newsrooms
What a great idea. I stumbled upon Publishing 2.0′s post about creating a network of newsrooms, journalist, bloggers and others to cover the “Super…
Content is not king
Being a former newspaper reporter it is hard for me to accept and get over the fact that content is not king when it…
Why good video matters
I work at a mid-size daily in the Midwest that has been operating under the “good enough” strategy when it comes to video. I…