Facebook: Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 17:41
“We recently looked at the most shared articles in the US on Facebook over the past year. The stories range from cute to thought provoking and represent the type of news people have been sharing and discovering with friends in 2011.”
The Washington Post: Ask The Post – An ongoing conversation between Post readers and The Post newsroom
Friday, 30 September 2011, 10:18
“Engaging readers with our journalism”. Nice idea for a newsroom blog; also on Twitter at #askthepost
The Washington Post: The Fix: Sarah Palin’s e-mails: What to expect
Friday, 10 June 2011, 10:01
"Each person or organization who requested copies will get five 55-pound boxes of documents at three cents a page, or $725.97. The price is down significantly from 2008, when Palin’s office told news organizations that the e-mails could cost as …
The Washington Post: The Fix: Help analyze the Palin e-mails
Friday, 10 June 2011, 10:00
"Over 24,000 e-mail messages to and from Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska's governor will be released Friday . We’ll be posting them here, and are inviting you to comment on the most interesting or most noteworthy sections. … For …
@innovations: Washington Post on news innovation, Moving away from Flash: A look at JavaScript drawing libraries
Friday, 3 June 2011, 10:06
"Last week we published a graphic that compared four federal budget proposals through a series of charts. We used the jQuery library Flot to draw simple, interactive line charts that showed how the debt and deficit would change under the different…
Washington Post: Breaking down the Situation Room
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:39
"Here is a tour of everything you need to know about the action in the photo and the specs of the room — from its gadgetry, to its cultural representations on TV and film, to its interior design — from our in-house experts."
New York Times: Some Newspapers Shift Coverage After Tracking Readers Online
Monday, 6 September 2010, 10:38
"Looking to the public for insight on how to cover a topic is never comfortable for newsrooms, which have the deeply held belief that readers come to a newspaper not only for its information but also for its editorial judgment. But many newsrooms now seem to be re-examining that idea and embracing, albeit cautiously, a more democratic approach to serving up the news, particularly online."
Poynter Online: Coffeeshop Newsrooms Yield Stories, Sources, Understanding of Journalism
Monday, 9 August 2010, 18:28
"The next time you visit your favorite coffee shop, consider how it would look if it were transformed into a "news café" — a place where journalists would work on stories and interact with patrons to find ideas, cultivate sources and show them how stories are reported."
Washington Post: Story Lab: Is it ever ok to unpublish a story?
Sunday, 2 May 2010, 11:38
Marc Fisher: "just because it is technically possible to unpublish a digital story in a way that was never possible in the ink-on-paper world does not make it right to do so."
Washington Post: Post readers deserve a better online gateway to government data
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 09:12
Andrew Alexander: "The Post knows it's lagging [in presenting public data online]. Old technology and short staffing are to blame. Raju Narisetti, the managing editor who oversees the Web site, said its decade-old content management system "can't really handle a lot of the databases and open-access information." A state-of-the art system, to be implemented by year's end."
Mediaite: Washington Post Blames Increased Typos On Staff Cuts, SEO
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 08:52
Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander: "The answer may be less about staffing levels and more about the changing duties of copy editors. Gone are the days when they primarily detected errors and smoothed prose for the next day’s newspaper. Now they must also operate in an online environment where 'search-engine optimization' is a key goal. That requires new skills and time-consuming additional duties. … This week, The Post will begin search-engine optimization training for the entire newsroom. Front-end help from reporters and other staff should ease the burden on copy editors."
Washington Post: Howard Kurtz on the Media
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 08:10
Howard Kurtz: "I'm told [a Washington Post iPhone app] is in the works and may be ready in the coming weeks."
Washington City Paper: Eyewitness Confirms: D.C. Cop Freaks Out Over Snowball Fight–Brandishes Gun
Sunday, 20 December 2009, 14:28
Interesting example of a local story with much information added to the local paper's account via material uploaded to Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, blogs etc…
Editor & Publisher: When Will a Web Editor Lead a Major Newsroom?
Sunday, 13 December 2009, 12:58
"[As] newsrooms combine online and print operations into single entities, power struggles are brewing among many in charge. More and more as these unifications occur, it's the online side that's losing authority. Like [Jim Brady at the Washington Post], online supervisors nationwide are seeing their resources — and influence — shrink as the staffs unite. Many say the Web site must be able to offer a different approach, more new ideas and risks, and options that the print edition can't even consider."
