Submitted by yelvington on February 12, 2016 - 1:04pm
After decades of predictions that print newspapers are doomed, it should come as no shock, but still: I was caught off guard by the announcement that Britain's national daily The Independent is giving up on print.
Submitted by yelvington on December 31, 2015 - 11:36am
It’s been a long time coming -- too long -- but in the next month or so we’re finally moving savannahnow.com to a new responsive Drupal 7 foundation. There’s more to it than that, though.
I'm back in the United States and mostly unjetlagged from a week in Ukraine, where I spent most of the time with the Chernihiv Media Group in a program operated by IREX and funded by the U.S. State Department. Ukraine is a country at war, but it's a strange one, geographically isolated to an eastern region where pro-Moscow rebels (and covert Russian soldiers) are trying to break away and reconnect with Russia.
A column by Aurora Sentinel editor Dave Perry is making the rounds on Facebook, I think primarily because the weekly paper is arguing that Denver is better off with a strong daily newspaper than without one, and that's something journalists like to hear. I happen to agree, but I gagged when I got to the part of the article that describes the impact of the Internet:
Most of you really don’t have a clue what’s happened.
Submitted by yelvington on April 3, 2015 - 10:19am
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Bluffton Today, a hyperlocal newspaper whose evolution reflects many of the major forces operating on journalism in this country.
The Star Tribune in Minneapolis is moving to an office tower down the street. In the process, staff archaeologists unearthed a video of the 1995 unveiling of Star Tribune Online to the staff. Jamie Hutt posted it on YouTube. It's an hour long, which is more of watching myself than I can stand, but Adrian Holovaty made it through and pointed me to this:
Submitted by yelvington on February 2, 2015 - 3:18pm
A couple of recent (re)launches that address the continuing growth of mobile Internet usage:
Business in Savannah got a shiny new responsive design last month. Chris White wrote about it. The BiS brand is used for the daily business coverage of the Savannah Morning News as well as a separate monthly business magazine.
One of the site engagement metrics that I monitor is pages per visitor.
a hyperlocal newspaper whose evolution reflects many of the major forces operating on journalism in this country.