The Miami Herald in circulation free fall
“As I said in thids (sic) blog many times, they are sleeping. It was a great paper. Now is almost dead. Why? Arrogance. They lost connections with its community.”
Open Letter::Stephen Colbert: Don’t Love and Leave YouTube
Glaser is absolutely on point about Comedy Central pulling videos from YouTube
Analysis: Why Circulation Keeps Heading South
“The chopping of other-paid circulation, which accounts for hotel, employee, Newspapers in Education, and third-party copies, is one reason the numbers look so bad. Advertisers, at least those in the larger metros, have said they find this kind of circulation less valuable.”
Fuel for my argument about design investment
Jay Small: “I surely wish newspapers would consider investing all that design time, creative energy and money in the parts of their businesses that are growing. Yes, I mean the online parts.”
Fox making news in a Flash
“The Flash is a 60-second newscast, one in the morning done by “Fox & Friends” and another in the afternoon by “The Fox Report With Shepard Smith.” It’s available on FoxNews.com, MySpace and iTunes as well as to Cingular and Amp’d customers…”
Denver newspaper agency to cut up to 5% of workers
“It was already a lean company, so we were surprised,” said Tony Mulligan, administrative officer of the Denver Newspaper Guild, the union that represents more than 30 of the laid-off workers. “Employees have a lot of questions and concerns.”
Election previews at Visual Editors
Awesome job. Boil that news down and give readers what they need quickly and why it’s relevant to them. This is excellent!
Chart of FAS FAX Results for Top 25 Daily Papers in the U.S.
New York tabs and St. Louis are the only top 25 gainers. LA Times, Philly Inky, Oregonian and Boston Globe are the big losers this round. At least there’s no double digit losses?
robcurley.com » So, what sites do you like?
Curley clues us in on his favorite sites — Roanoke.com, (big time), Espn.com, Youtube, Technorati, Yahoo, Google custom news searches, lots of Disney fanboy sites and a certain little blog called Journerdism! (Which is actually kind of just a Curley fanboy site.)
Video ‘even less interactive than print’
I fear that true, ‘alternative story forms’–especially interactive ones–(non-linear) are going to be sparse at news organizations (other than the big 4) for some time now.