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The NYTPicker looks like a fair, thoughtful critique blog focused solely on the New York Times
Unlike the multitude of mouthfrothing right wingers or woe-is-me media-is-dying types, these people clearly want the Times to be the best it can be.
tumbl  media  nytimes  newspapers 
december 2009 by jimray
News Apps Blog: Matters of interest, brought to you by the News Applications team at the Chicago Tribune
Interesting looking blog from the Chicago Tribune about doing app development around the news.
newspapers  hackerjournalism  geek  python  django 
november 2009 by jimray
Mike D has a great post on the end of the Seattle P-I
A thoughtful, respectful but realistic look at the news business. Dispenses with easy snark and instead focuses on the future of media.
newspapers  business  media  economy  tumbl 
march 2009 by jimray
An elegy for us
Julia Klein writes an obit for newspapers in Obit magazine. "Don’t be fooled. Those newspapers will someday be as historic as the headlines."
newspapers  media  death  tumbl 
december 2008 by jimray
10 reasons why newspapers won't reinvent news
Quite well written, pulls no punches look at the problem with newspapers, in particular newspaper culture. Sad but sobering.
newspapers  media  via:magnebox  tumbl 
october 2008 by jimray
The New York Times is shutting down the IHT website
Once one of the most innovative news sites going, it's languished for years. The Times is hoping to roll up more international users into its main site and brand.
media  newspapers  nyt  tumbl 
october 2008 by jimray
Media Bistro talks to new LA Times editor in chief Russ Stanton
Some thoughtful, straightforward answers, I'm optimistic that the Times will do well under Russ.
latimes  media  newspapers  tumbl 
june 2008 by jimray
The last six editors of the LA Times talk to Los Angeles magazine
Not much love for the mother Tribune but some good, candid responses
newspapers  media  via:macdiva  tumbl  business  latimes  tribune 
may 2008 by jimray
Why Pentagon talking heads piece in New York Times had no legs
"the biggest hurdle for the story's impact may have been one journalists have trouble seeing. Many Americans confronted with stories of media manipulation by government officials aren't, at this point, shocked and awed. Instead they've come to expect it."
media  newspapers  government 
april 2008 by jimray
NY Times profile on David Hiller, publisher at the LA Times
media  newspapers  latimes 
february 2008 by jimray
New York Times won't unite digital and newspaper staffs for Newspaper Guild
Digital staff to be treated differently until at least 2011 if this holds true
newspapers  nytimes  media  tumbl 
february 2008 by jimray
Interesting New York Observer article on the future of the LA Times
Still worth a read even thought the LA Times just announced Russ Stanton, former innovation editor, as the new editor in chief. I met and talked with Russ once, he's a smart guy who will serve the paper well.
newspapers  latimes  media  tumbl 
february 2008 by jimray
Waxy discovers that The Times (UK) is spamming just about every social network out there
The SEO consultant they've used is astroturfing sites like Maholo, Digg and del.icio.us to post timesonlin.co.uk articles with no transparency. Fear not, Encyclopedia Baio is on the case!
awesome  media  newspapers  spam  tumbl 
january 2008 by jimray
LA Times editor in chief Jim O'Shea fired
Reportedly over refusing to carry out $4M in budget cuts, which would have most certainly led to some layoffs. I worked with Jim in Chicago and almost again in LA, he's a top notch journalist and editor. This is certainly a loss for the Times.
latimes  newspapers  media  tumbl 
january 2008 by jimray
Josh Williams on the Las Vegas Sun redesign
Josh is my kind of media nerd
media  newspapers  tumbl 
january 2008 by jimray
Las Vegas Sun relaunches
Congratulations to Josh and crew
media  design  newspapers 
january 2008 by jimray
Gawker's got some good thoughts on blogs at newspapers
People are more interested in the content of articles, be they stories or blog posts, not where in the nav they live.
media  newspapers  weblogs  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
New York Times officially drops TimesSelect
“What wasn’t anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others.” Huh, that's odd, because I remember EVERYFUCKINGBODY saying that when TimesSelect launched.
newspapers  dumb  media  nytimes  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Murdoch takeover of Dow Jones now official?
The official line is that the only agreement made was over independence, but that was the only sticking point, so...
media  newspapers  politics  tumbl 
july 2007 by jimray
The Washington Post gets religion about the web
Mostly obvious stuff, but they're officially on board with this whole internet thing now
newspapers  media  tumbl  ac 
july 2007 by jimray
The Metropolitan Museum's new Greek and Roman galleries
Some really nice multimedia and panorama work, fellas
multimedia  media  nytimes  newspapers  museums  history 
june 2007 by jimray
The Washington Post is blogging a special report on the Cheney vice presidency
Interesting use of the blog format, curious to know how they're going to keep up with the avalanche of comments
politics  washingtonpost  newspapers  media  weblogs  cheney  via:joeweiss  ac 
june 2007 by jimray
Hyperlocal is just a fad, but what the word represents is nothing new
"It’s a fad term for the kind of nuts-and-bolts community coverage many daily newspapers abandoned in the wake of Woodward and Bernstein. It’s a fad term for building sites enhanced with granular databases and user-generated content."
media  newspapers  via:magnetbox  local  community 
june 2007 by jimray
10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head
"It's not Craig's fault" - well put, sir
newspapers  media  craigslist  google  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Washington Post's Local Explorer is pretty cool
Only covers DC (obviously) but a really slick interface for all kinds of local data
newspapers  local  via:magnetbox  maps  washingtonpost  tumbl  media 
june 2007 by jimray
The best 7 articles you need to read before you redesign your news site
You've probably read them already but give 'em another look on your lunch break
design  newspapers  media 
june 2007 by jimray
My Times - New York Times
If only I knew someone at the NY Times (*ahem*) who could hook a brotha up. If only.
nytimes  feeds  personalization  newspapers  media 
june 2007 by jimray
Rob Curley's got some interesting thoughts on outsourcing “local” reporting
First I'd heard of this story of a Pasadena paper farming out local reporting to India
newspapers  media  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Reinventing newspapers is Murdoch's long-range goal - International Herald Tribune
2read  media  newspapers  via:alistairbrown 
may 2007 by jimray
Transmedia newspapers
"Print isn't bad, it's fantastic with huge staying power but you've gotta produce something I'm gonna want to keep around." I, frankly, don't really buy the premise that newsprint can ever be anything but disposable, but I do like the comparison of movie
media  newspapers  via:magnetbox  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Fake Steve on Murdoch buying The Journal
"But wait a minute. Isn't profit good? Shouldn't the market be allowed to work? [...] now Murdoch is offering a nearly 70% premium and you reporters are urging owners not to take it? Oh, Journal hacks, you are a bunch of frauds."
newspapers  media  via:daringfireball  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Sam Zell thinks it's time to stop "giving away" content to Google
Oh, boy. What has the Trib gotten itself in to?
dumb  newspapers  google  search  media  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
News Corp. makes a bid for Dow Jones
Obviously, the political alignment makes sense, but this just doesn't feel right
media  newspapers  newscorp  evil  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Holovaty breaks down the new presidential candidate tracker at the Post
Great feature set, pretty much exactly what you'd expect from that crew
media  databases  newspapers  politics  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Why does Rob Curley's summer internship thing piss me off so much?
Could it be that he uses the word "cool" 7 times? Or that he waited until now to get his act together and expects kids to quit the internships they've already accepted to work with him and all his "cool" projects?
dumb  newspapers  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
Is USA Today’s orientation toward social networking detrimental to its journalistic purpose?
Too much social, not enough editing
newspapers  media  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
The Seattle dailies quit their bitching, for a while, at least
I'm still not quite convinced Seattle is a big enough town for two alt-weeklies and two print dailies. I'm betting one goes online only by the end of the decade (probably the PI).
seattle  newspapers  media  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
Newspapers Struggle to Respond to Web Challenge
Somewhat boring story about that crazy disruptive web thing using newspapers as an example
newspapers  media  via:rdsholin 
april 2007 by jimray
The Times machine
New York Observer takes a look at what the future might hold for the New York Times as they move locations and start integrating their newsroom
via:khoivinh  newspapers  media  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes
"What I want from my local newspaper"
newspapers  media  local  community  via:magnetbox  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
LJWorld launches local business directory
Aims to compete with bigger players (Google, Yahoo) by being hyper focused and knowledgeable about the community. Not a bad model for newspapers.
media  newspapers  business  local 
april 2007 by jimray
Real estate magnate Sam Zell is buying the Tribune
$8.2B, selling the Cubbies
media  newspapers  tumbl  baseball 
april 2007 by jimray
Washington Post refreshes design
Aimed at clearing clutter, better organization. Seems to mostly succeed, need to dig in a bit more.
tumbl  design  newspapers  media 
march 2007 by jimray
We don’t talk about citizen carpentry
Really excellent feedback to all the "OMg!! newspapers is dying!!1!" wankery of late
via:magnetbox  media  newspapers 
march 2007 by jimray
10 Newspaper Myths Deconstructed
Well, certainly smarter than the tripe Scoble was blahbing about.
newspapers  media  tumbl 
march 2007 by jimray
Doc Searls on fixing newspapers
Feel free to ignore everything Scoble/Winer/O'Reilly/etc are saying and just read this. I just saved you half an hour, thank me later.
newspapers  media  tumbl 
march 2007 by jimray
Dave Winer hooks the NYTimes up to Twitter
I've used a few of these (BBC, weather) and end up unsusbscribing after a couple of days. I just don't think the "twiiter as feed reader" metaphor really works.
tumbl  twitter  nytimes  media  newspapers 
march 2007 by jimray
Red Hot Rails, special photo project from Merc News with nifty Flash interface
Sexy!
photography  newspapers 
march 2007 by jimray
NY Times to launch "City Room" site to focus on local stories (?)
nytimes  newspapers  media  local 
march 2007 by jimray
The *real* heroes of newspapers
Dare I say... Right On!
newspapers  media  tumbl 
march 2007 by jimray
In praise of the parasitic blogger
"Another word for "parasitic," in this context, is "critical." Blogging is at its essence a critical form, a means of recycling other writings to ensure their fullest and most efficient consumption."
tumbl  newspapers  bloggers  foo 
march 2007 by jimray
USAToday.com 2.0
Yeah, Mike Arrington loves the new USAToday (shocker) but not everyone is so enamored.
design  newspapers  media 
march 2007 by jimray
USA Today website relaunch is official
Lots of new community oriented features, the design is still pretty, ah, utilitarian, though
newspapers  design  media  tumbl 
march 2007 by jimray
Making innovation work at newspapers
Thoughts on innovation teams inside of newspapers, certainly applicable to other media orgs as well
tumbl  media  newspapers 
march 2007 by jimray
USA Tomorrow
USA Today's website redesign launches soon. I wish they'd dump the Fisher Price design and organize a little better, nice to see the social and personalization features, though.
media  newspapers  foo 
february 2007 by jimray
A tiny ad upstart forces Google to open up a little
Quingo seems popular especially amongst media companies because they let you specify who can and can't buy ads on your site
media  advertising  google  yahoo  newspapers 
february 2007 by jimray
When bad financial news for newspapers is good news for journalism
In essence, it takes expectations out of the stratosphere and helps newspapers get back to the job of churning out the news
newspapers  media 
february 2007 by jimray
MySeattlePix
Seattle PI's photo UGC play
via:kimcarney  seattle  newspapers  media  ugc  photography 
february 2007 by jimray
Newspapers beating TV sites to video revenue
$81 million in 2006 vs. $32 million.
advertising  media  newspapers  television  video 
february 2007 by jimray
Study: news quality improves profits
Shocking, a university study finds that newspapers aren't spending enough in the newsroom and spending too much on advertising. Oh, ivory towers...
media  newspapers  research 
february 2007 by jimray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution offering buyouts
Trimming staff by as much as 80, as well as circulation; focusing more on "digital news."
newspapers  media  via:rdsholin 
february 2007 by jimray
Wanted by Gannett: Young Talent
Interesting internship/training program aimed to get young folks in newspapers, not an easy task these days
newspapers  jobs  media 
february 2007 by jimray
Latimes.com names Meredith Artley executive editor
Huge win for LAT (also wonders what Naka's plans are...)
latimes  media  via:joeweiss  newspapers 
february 2007 by jimray
'LA Times' Reveals Schwarzenegger Tapes
...but can't get 'em online due to an "unidentified technical glitch"
latimes  media  newspapers 
february 2007 by jimray
Where News Consumption Is Heading
newspapers  media 
february 2007 by jimray
Skip the Foie Gras, take a private plane
See, here's a perfect reason to hate the travel section!
newspapers  media  travel  funny 
february 2007 by jimray
London Times redesigns
Excepting that green, looks sharp. More <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/debate/feedback/article1184076.ece">from the designers</a> and the <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/debate/feedback/article1184010.ece">IA</a>
media  design  newspapers  via:daringfireball 
february 2007 by jimray
A peek inside the WSJ editorial board
The WSJ puts a video camera inside their editorial meeting. Wow, a bunch of white dudes aping Karl Rove. Fascinating.
politics  opinion  video  newspapers  wsj  media 
february 2007 by jimray
'SF Chronicle' Sees Record Web Day For Mayoral Affair Coverage
"Negulescu said the Web traffic is credited, in part, to the variety of items placed on the Web site related to the story, from print text to blog postings to video of the mayor's Thursday press conference where he confirmed the affair had occurred."
newspapers  media 
february 2007 by jimray
New York Times to begin experimenting with UG video
“The most expensive thing is the journalists themselves. That’s why user-generated content is interesting.”
video  newspapers  media  ugc 
february 2007 by jimray
vMix
Yet another UGC play, this one's used by the LA Times and others
newspapers  ugc  community 
january 2007 by jimray
Buzz.mn is the Star-Tribune's Drupal-powered community site
Looks like this is finally live. I'd like to see better integration with the rest of the site, but this is an obvious future for newspapers. Looks great.
newspapers  community  local  citizenjournalism 
january 2007 by jimray
SF Chronicle starts podcasting angry voicemails
God, this is gonna be good
media  newspapers  ugc  awesome  podcasts 
january 2007 by jimray
LA Times going 24/7
“To put it bluntly, as a news organization, we are not web-savvy. If anything, we are web-stupid.”
latimes  newspapers  media 
january 2007 by jimray
Murdoch joins $9.6b bid for Tribune Co
Says he wants to save money by combining backroom operation of Post and Newsday
media  newspapers  tibune 
january 2007 by jimray
Chandlers could reclaim LA Times as part of bid for Tribune Co.
Sold Times-Mirror for $8B seven years ago, now trying to buy the entire Trib for $7.6B. Wow.
latimes  newspapers  tribune 
january 2007 by jimray
The Long Tail: The Vanishing Point theory of news
&quot;I&#39;ll start reading my &quot;local&quot; newspaper again when it covers my block.&quot; I have a lot of problems with this &quot;theory&quot; but the idea of news that is relevant to people&#39;s lives is powerful
community  media  newspapers  local 
january 2007 by jimray
24-Hour Newspaper People
A newspaper man blogs
weblogs  newspapers  nytimes  via:khoivinh  media 
january 2007 by jimray
Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec-study
"Unique visitors to blog sites affiliated with the largest Internet newspapers rose to 3.8 million in December 2006 from 1.2 million viewers a year earlier, tracking firm Nielsen//NetRatings said."
via:alistairbrown  weblogs  newspapers  media 
january 2007 by jimray
The Onion partners with the Washington Post
WaPo will print and distribute and sell local ads
newspapers  washingtonpost  funny  media 
january 2007 by jimray
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