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McPaper Goes Leaner, Meaner and Mobile
Before USA Today became the nation’s largest newspaper, it was called McPaper. The daily’s colorful design and short McNuggets of content begged the comparison to a fast food version of the news. In 2007 when the paper celebrated its 25th anniversary, circulation hit 2.3 million and USA Today had out-grown the criticism. Other papers scrambled [...]
The Relentless Pursuit of Mediocrity
Editors have always been task masters. Each exhibits a mixture of ruthless honesty and a genuine, almost childlike curiosity. Both of these—for the journalist answering to his boss—can be particularly exhausting, doubly so given the additional relentlessness of deadlines. Today’s front page is tomorrow’s trash can liner. You are only as good as your last [...]
All News Is Local
We are all citizens of the world. We are or should be interested in and concerned about international events and affairs. However, what really concerns us are the potholes on our own street. All news, like all politics, on some level is local. On the theory that there is a business model to support geographic-specific [...]
Haro-ing
Web 2.0 has made journalism a lot more transparent. (Read Monday’s installment of A Fresh, Ferocious Wave about Transparent Journalism.) Readers can now watch a story develop and are invited into the process. Technology also makes finding quality sources easier for journalists. Services like HelpaReporterOut.com let journalists post queries describing what kind of sources they [...]
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Smart People with Good Ideas
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16 Jul 2010
Desirable, Not Just Available
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8 Jul 2010
What’s That Sound?
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24 Jun 2010
Gimme Shelter
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17 Jun 2010
A Fresh, Ferocious Wave
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4 Jun 2010
The Interaction Cycle of a Website
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3 Jun 2010
POOLLifeMag.com Undergoes Redesign
