SteveOuting: Hey, news sites: Think like retailers!
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 07:54
Steve Outing is right: news sites have a lot to learn about email marketing from retailers…
Marketing Week: FT.com adds premium subscription service
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 07:38
"The FT Newsmine is a weekly email service distributed on Fridays that extracts hidden nuggets from FT articles and provides a snapshot of global market-related data, trends and observations that may have been missed during the week."
OJR: Michael Jackson’s death and its lessons for online journalists covering breaking news
Friday, 26 June 2009, 15:50
Don't agree with Robert Niles on this at all: "It's time to drop e-mail as a breaking news medium .. sending a 'breaking news alert' hours after everyone from Helsinki to Honolulu has been tweeting the news just embarrasses the news organization. … Better not to send the e-mail at all." Really? "Everyone" was Tweeting? Actually, a tiny minority was Tweeting.
Guardian: Sign up for Metropolitan Lines
Saturday, 23 May 2009, 12:57
"Sign up for our new London email, Metropolitan Lines, written by the Guardian's London blogger, Dave Hill."
Telegraph: BBC customers deluged by spam after hackers break into mailing list
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 08:14
"Names and e-mail addresses on a BBC mailing list were exploited by hackers to send "spam", or unwanted e-mail…"
outside.in: Radar Email Alerts. New!
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 10:52
"[Y]ou can now opt to receive email alerts for your [Outside.in] Radar. You’ll get an email anytime someone publishes news happening within 1,000 feet of your selected location, or about any topic or favorite place you’ve added to your Radar."
NPR: Bryant Park Project; What’s The Future Of News?
Saturday, 26 July 2008, 10:01
"Ledbetter says that while the growth of blogs has had an important impact on journalism, he still wouldn't rank it as the most important development of the last five years. He calls e-mail 'the most important killer app that the Internet has brought us.'
Monday, 21 July 2008, 09:40
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"Sporting News will launch on July 23 Sporting News Today, a daily editorial product styled after a traditional newspaper but which will be e-mailed each morning to a list of subscribers…"
Tuesday, 15 January 2008, 09:19
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Yoni Greenbaum: "An approach that I’ve encouraged my reporters to use is to publish their own email newsletter, call it ‘[insert reporters name]’s Weekly Update.’"
Monday, 19 November 2007, 12:48
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Bill Thompson: "Each year I tell my students on the online journalism course at City University … hat once someone e-mails them from a work address then that person can never be guaranteed anonymity in future, simply because it is so easy for employers
Saturday, 21 July 2007, 12:15
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Why should Google buy Yahoo? With the exception of search, Yahoo’s strengths map to Google’s weaknesses, almost precisely.
Monday, 25 June 2007, 09:02
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"Six percent of the mail coming into [The University of California, Berkeley e-mail system] in May 2007 — across all students, staff, and faculty — is from Facebook. For a single source — a single application — that is a staggering percentage."
Saturday, 28 April 2007, 18:46
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Mark Hamilton quotes from Anna Politkovskaya and wonders: "Can we get to journalism like this solely by email or blog post? No." That just about says it all. End of silly blogospheric debate.
Saturday, 28 April 2007, 11:14
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"The solution, and a good one at that: Podcast the interview. The reporter gets his quotes; the blogger gets his public interview; the public gets an extra piece of the story: Everyone’s happy. The question now, is how many of your sources would buy int
