editorial strategy
Leading from the Social Media front Paid Members Public
Love this article, as tweeted [https://twitter.com/ksablan/status/98447987285573633] by Kevin Sablan: > Unless a once-in-a-lifetime story is breaking in your community, the most urgent challenge facing every news organization today is making a swift and successful transformation to the digital future. Leading that transition is every editor’
Can we use web metrics to improve print products? Paid Members Public
Catching up on my RSS feeds after my holiday, I came across this post in Jeff Jarvis’s blog [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/buzzmachine/~3/jShRrij4lsg/]. One bullet point in particular struck me: > *** Some readers are not worth saving.** One newspaper killed its stock tables, saved $1 million,
Kill your antiquated article structure not your comments Paid Members Public
David Higgerson published an interesting meditation on comments under articles yesterday [http://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/here-come-the-angry-brigade-are-comments-on-stories-more-hassle-than-they-are-worth/] . “Are comments under articles worth doing?” he asks, and flirts with the answer “no”, without coming to a definitive conclusion. The post, and the comments underneath (ironically) are well worth reading.