Have you seen the Newseum’s NewsMania game that updates the questions every day? I could literally play this everyday. I do well on the reporter level, but not so hot as an editor. My wife, Jennifer, and I always compete on the MSNBC news quiz to see who does the [...]

If you’ve followed my newspaper posts, you’ve noticed that I’ve discussed the circulation declines and retrenchment of regional newspapers back into their metropolitan area. One area where the newspaper industry is not hurting is the small to medium market newspaper. Media Life reports 75 to 80 percent of the American [...]

If you frequently read my blog you know that I enjoy web design, photography, politics and video production, but newspapers and online journalism are what really excite me. I am particularly interested in innovations at newspapers. In fact, I wrote my master’s thesis on online newspapers use of technology. Last [...]

Mega newspaper corporation Gannett reviewed their business strategy back in December in a report to investment banking house Credit Suisse. The reports are only available as mostly boring hour long audio files, so you can go and see all the highlights posted on the Innovation in College Media blog. Here’s [...]

The Atlanta Journal Constitution has announced they are cutting their print circulation area and focusing on growing digital. This is similar to the same steps taken in the past year by the Dallas Morning News and Gannett.

The Washington Post launched On Being this week. Is this the new product that Rob Curley was talking about last week when discussed the Naples Daily News Studio 55? Howard Owens has some questions about it, too. And I guess that I don’t completely get it, either. Even though the [...]

At the NAA Marketing Conference Tom Mohr breeched the idea this week that “local is no longer an organizing principle in the interactive world.” Seeing that this is a newspaper conference and newspapers are locally oriented, this statement is like another nail in the newspaper coffin. In his presentation (pdf [...]

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette launched a much needed redesign today. The site had some small enhancements over the past year, but desperately needed some major help. I’m sure their web staff is glad to get the redesign monkey off their back and out the door (I’ve experienced that kind of relief [...]

I am all about telling a good story and that’s what journalism is all about for me– using the right medium to convey your message to your audience. One essential to good journalism (and good storytelling) is editing. Behind every wonderful writer is a wonderful editor. The site editTeach is [...]

American Journalism Review published a profile of Adrian Holovaty in their January/February issue. He’s responsible for the award winning mashup ChicagoCrime.org. The article recognizes him as a pioneer in the new field of programming journalist as he “collects data, synthesizes it and converts it to an understandable format to give [...]