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08
Apr

Free can be good and effective. Did I mention free?

If you are an online-type-person working at a newspaper.com have I got an offer for you. I am working
08
Apr

Success = Attention x Trust x Convenience

Reading Steve Buttry’s latest blog post this morning Clinging to the past won’t save newspapers he summed up
25
Mar

Ten things for free

Help! I am at a workshop at Poynter this week learning about change management and coaching/training techniques. Just for
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23
Feb

Pay walls: How does this make sense?

I am totally willing to agree that the current online news business model (e.g. publish everything for free and
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09
Feb

Twitter resources for the newsroom

A bunch of new Twitter accounts popped up in our newsroom recently so I put together a quick list of
08
Feb

The Flat Earth Society

This blog post finally irritated me enough I had to rant further on it: OJR: Papers must charge for websites
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19
Jan

David Ardia on comments

David Ardia is the director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard. He spoke on a panel in Worcester
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31
Dec

Angry vendor syndrome

At the top of my list of New Year’s Resolutions is to NOT be this guy. Names have been
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23
Dec

A link too far?

So, it is going to be a spectacle, especially during a slow news week, when one media company sues another
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12
Dec

Natural disasters

Sure disasters make for good copy and they are a chance for a newspaper to really serve the community — assuming