Ombudsman Blog: Post online strategy: Grow audience, and engagement
Friday, 16 July 2010, 14:52
"In the [Washington] Post's case, the intense pressure to boost online traffic and engagement has revealed, as my Sunday column noted, a newsroom divide between Web and print-oriented staffers. Some with an online focus believe that print veterans are too wedded to traditional journalistic standards and are too slow to embrace the more freewheeling Web. But print-oriented staffers fear that using gimmicks to attract online audience will cheapen The Post’s brand, thus damaging its journalistic reputation. When I suggested last week that there’s a disconnect in the newsroom, Post online executive producer Katharine Zaleski said that it’s more of a “lack of awareness” on the part of some print veterans."
Advertising Age: Print Vets Looking to Go Digital Find Switch Difficult
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 10:30
"Whether motivated by personal choice or downsizing at their employers, the switch to digital offered many print veterans footholds in a growing young sector and the chance to learn new skills. But it is becoming increasingly difficult for even seasoned professionals to segue from print to digital."
The Daily Report: Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture
Friday, 22 January 2010, 09:05
Jeffrey Zeldman: "A suggestion for a business. Sooner or later, some hosting company is going to figure out that it can provide a service and make a killing (as it were) by offering ten-, twenty-, and hundred-year packets of posthumous hosting."
psmith, journalist: Sorry, but the monopoly is over: regional newspapers need digital innovation
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 09:08
Patrick Smith describes the "conspiracy theory" many journalists favour : "that newspapers would be profitable if the owners would only 'invest in quality'. This theory holds that since newspapers once were hugely profitable (not necessarily true…) they could be again if the pagination, staffing and multiple editions came back the way they were. … [But] This is not about the quality of journalism – this is about economics."
Nieman Journalism Lab: Michael Skoler on newsroom culture
Sunday, 14 December 2008, 10:57
"If journalists don't lead the revolution, the beancounters will."
New York Times Magazine: Malwebolence – The World of Web Trolling
Friday, 1 August 2008, 06:57
Long New York Times magazine article looking at trolls who harass online communities.
