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July 11 2009

Dear Bill Keller

Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times, gave an interview to TIME magazine that showed a total lack of transparency, a fear that journalism itself was under attack, and a disturbing amount of the ‘old media’ mindset. This is a look at what he got wrong, and how to fix it.

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May 21 2009

Newsorgs Should Offer Freemium Live Interviews

Newspapers are really good at interviewing, and they have the brand recognition to get big names. But, it seems that they’ve missed the opportunity to make money off of this skill. Continue reading →
May 18 2009

A Web Design Critique of the Newsweek Redesign

In what may become a regular feature on this blog, some free web design advice for Newsweek on their newly redesigned site front page.

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April 28 2009

An Economist Approach to the Newspaper Industry

Sometimes it’s good to get perspective. Approaching the newspaper business from the point of view of an economist is exceedingly interesting. In this post, I present a the thoughts of a college student economist and my summary reactions.

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April 7 2009

BATTLE | Planning a Budget ‘New Media’ for Feature

The process of developing a story budget for The Daily Orange Feature Desk is mostly one of narrowing down broad ideas to make them relevant to the population the paper serves.This is just a mind dump of ideas that I shared with the Editor on how to make their content a bit more ‘new media’ friendly. Continue reading →
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