Can’t be bothered to interact
I find this development at Gannett to be completely appalling. It seems the company is outsourcing its comment moderation to employees at software firm Pluck. In one of the comments on that item, Matt...
View ArticleThis is interactivity
How do you make the news interactive? You get creative. Big, big props to the State Journal-Register for thinking of this.
View ArticleChanging, several projects at a time
Transitions are rarely so clean as to have a discrete beginning, middle or end. Some of the projects within our transition, though, can have more finite targets. Below you’ll see descriptions of some...
View ArticleGetting the big picture
One of the elements of our transition work that I think has been most effective is the idea that we’re actively promoting the big picture. The hub desk has been a crucial element in helping me see...
View ArticleComments, and how to mine them
Good post here from MU alum and Memphis journalism prof Carrie Brown. I won’t steal her thunder, but this is the gist of it: In (Ken Ward, Jr’s) blog, Coal Tattoo, he decided early on not to ignore...
View ArticleThe new commenters
Our story about the Columbia Daily Tribune’s plan to erect a paywall has about 2,200 page views as of this writing. Under the story, we’ve got several dozen comments from people expressing their...
View ArticleRadically changing the desk — it works
(This is also posted on the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog) The Missourian is wrapping up a semester-long experiment designed to improve the focus of our website production and change the...
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