Posts filed under “newspapers”
Outlook/Exchange vs. GMAIL
Will Sullivan, myself and others have argued that newsrooms should consider switching to GMAIL because of its interface, search capabilities, advanced filtering and tagging and other features. Honestly, I am much more productive with my GMAIL and Google Apps e-mail (used with @patthorntonfiles.com addresses) than I am with my work e-mail at Stripes that runs [...]
Should Web employees not subscribe to the print edition?
Marc Matteo proposed the radical idea on a comment earlier today: In the same vein that there are requirements w/in newsrooms to subscribe to the paper, I’d like to see the “online desk” staffers barred from taking the print edition. Why? Because it clouds online news judgement. When online staffers are still happily existing in [...]
News organizations need to rethink staff resources in order to promote innovation
It’s a simple question: What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for innovation? And it’s a simple answer: News organizations should stop pretending like it’s the pre-Internet days. Most news organizations are still legacy-first. Newspapers still care more about the print edition than the Web edition. Beats are still centered [...]
Management should reflect demographics (AKA management can’t be just a bunch of old white guys)
If newspapers don’t have young people in management positions, they need to get some. Or at least consult them on decisions. This shockingly does not happen at many newspapers, where management is usually determined by time served, not talent or ideas. Let’s face reality here: The average newspaper reader is like 100 billion years old. [...]
The Web owes us nothing
Just because a company and an industry thrived off of legacy media, doesn’t mean the Web owes them anything. The Web doesn’t owe us money. It doesn’t owe us market share. And we can’t force consumers to not enjoy the Web and want to get products and services over it. That’s not how things work. [...]
I can’t wait for the future of print newspapers
I don’t believe print is dead. Far from it. I just believe, however, that most print products are trying to compete with online products. The fundamental problem with most print products is that they are trying to do it all (especially breaking news), instead of concentrating on what they do best — analysis pieces and [...]
How will the average U.S. newspaper turn itself around?
Many journalism bloggers, industry commentators and people who read my blog work for big publications, and they often do not hear or see some of the ridiculous things their smaller brethren are doing. The average daily newspaper in the U.S. has a weekday circulation around 36,500. Newspapers like that are a world away from The [...]
Journalism students need to know business
Students should not be allowed to graduate from journalism school without some business sense and knowledge of the journalism industry. Every student should know how to write, edit, research, report and have strong online skills. But those are just skills, as Kiyoshi Martinez puts it. Journalism students also need to understand the industry they are [...]
Newspapers, it’s time to panic
“There is a time when panic is the appropriate response.” – Eugene Kleiner of KPCB. It’s about high time that journalists and newspapers start panicking. At least panic will lead to disruption, and often panic is the only way to forge lasting change. Too many journalists think that the Web has just brought on a [...]
Newspapers should get smaller to get better
Newspaper staffs are shrinking and niche Web sites are popping up all over the place. Newspapers and staffs should get physically smaller and only cover what is in their niches. Some papers have technology sections, movie review sections, health sections, etc. Those are all non-local niches. A newspaper will get killed trying to compete in [...]