Comments on: 10 ridiculously cheap, relatively easy, small steps you can take to change an old school newsroom culture to be more forward thinking and web friendly

By: MIke Meiners

MIke Meiners — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:41:24 +0000

Wow – I’ve been SEO’d! More Google hits for me!

By: Sara O.

Sara O. — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:38:53 +0000

Will: Just wanted to say thanks for putting this list together. I’d heard pieces of it over the years, but it’s good have in one spot.

A comment on No. 6 and sharing the basic Web production work. I on a few occasions pitched my training our two in-house reporters in Web production with the goal of having them mind the two smaller-traffic sections of my old publication. I was told no by editors. The reason? Pay rates and job descriptions and conflicts with the guild.

My motivation then was to have someone in our weekly’s staff trained as my backup for Web production so I could be ill (the kind where you’re quarantined at home like I was) in peace, sure, but also to get the reporters dabbling in multimedia production (slideshows and video for their stories–that did come later, yay!) so that I could be freed up to tackle more advanced projects.

By: Pam Maples

Pam Maples — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:26:40 +0000

Will: Great post. Love the shout-outs to deserving colleagues, but you’re a little too modest about your own role in ongoing efforts to transform the newsroom. Great work. Take a bow, please.

By: Mark S. Luckie

Mark S. Luckie — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:28:00 +0000

Thanks for the link love and the great tips. Shout out to Donny and Marie.

By: Will Sullivan

Will Sullivan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:43:52 +0000

@Kirk Wow! How’d I lose that one? It’s fixed now. Thanks for the heads up.

@Albert & @Michael Thanks for the comments guys!