Shropshire Star crowdsourcing fuel prices
Friday, 16 November 2007, 12:06
The Shrophsire Star is the latest UK regional newspaper to experiment with ‘crowdsourcing’ on its web site.
Last week, the Midlands News Association title asked online readers to report the price of petrol in their area. The Star has been plotting the results on a Google Map embedded on its site.
The experiment is similar to the [...]
A daily newspaper site built in WordPress
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 17:18
Britain’s largest paid-circulation regional newspaper, the Express & Star in Wolverhampton, is using the free open source blogging software WordPress as the content management system of its web site, which had 162,820 unique users in April.
Its Midlands News Association sister title, the Shropshire Star (95,612 unique users, 4/2007 ABCe) uses a similar WordPress template.
The [...]
Diary of a regional newspaper video journalist
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 17:09
The Shropshire Star has a great blog on which video journalist James Shaw has been posting regularly about the steep learning curve he has been facing over the last few months as he becomes one of the papers’ video journalists.
On one recent assignment, covering Prince Edward’s tour of a Newport school, Shaw learned some royal [...]
