Category Archives: regional

Nieman Journalism Lab: The Newsonomics of Google Grouponomics

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Ken Doctor on Groupon: "the remorse being expressed in newspaper buildings across America this week is the same: Why didn’t we come up with that idea? The remorse should go deeper; check out the Groupon Merchant Services page, and try to find a similar one, with similar marketing support, offered by a newspaper company online. In fact, Groupon’s whole pitch to merchants, cheerfully animated in its Grouponomics section, is a textbook lesson in selling local."

paidContent:UK: Local Media May Have Blown Another Online Ads Opportunity

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Robert Andrews: "Through daily coupon deals, place reviews and location sharing, local services is where it’s at. That should finally mean boom-time for local newspapers ... Yet look at the booming crop of next-generation local ad services and you’ll see none was devised by the operators who once had the market all to themselves. "

ReadWriteWeb: Facebook’s Places Feature About to Launch

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"Facebook's location service 'Places' is speeding towards an imminent launch ... Advertising exec Dave Morgan has argued ... that the rise of location based services, because they are so easy to use and compelling, will suck the advertising life-blood out of local newspapers, radio and journalism."

psmith, journalist: Link to the past: why do journalists still not link to each other?

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"Content management systems in some newsrooms make such a simple thing a Big Deal, something only one or two people in the organisation can do.... But for the national newspapers and magazines, in the majortiy of cases they have no such excuse and the fact is that many simply choose not to send readers elsewhere. We’re the best, our readers love us, why would anyone go anywhere else?"

Marc Reeves: Speaking truth to power: my speech to the CBI

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"I spent the last 15 years of my newspaper career regularly attending industry conferences in which the threats and opportunities of the internet were endlessly discussed and analysed. Pretty much everything that has come to pass was predicted, but what did the big newspaper groups do? Very little that was right, it turns out. ... Newspapers are still trying aspiring to the revenue levels of the old days ... but it’s only a problem if you’re trying to make an online revenue stream pay for a newsprint cost base."

Peterborough Today: What do you think of our new website?

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Is this the first of the redesigned Johnston Press sites? As is typical of a post introducing a redesing, there are lots of unhappy comments. Odd to have news sponsored by the local council. Update: Apparently the Grantham Journal was the first site to use the new JP templates. I had missed that. Thanks to Sarah in the comments.

Manchester Evening News: Locked up in February ’10

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This is probably as close to TampaBay.com's mugshot gallery site as British law allows: "The MEN is naming and shaming criminals convicted of serious offences during February. We will be publishing an online gallery of offenders who have been convicted and jailed at courts around Greater Manchester throughout the month."