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.

Copy editors and designers for newspapers try to write catchy headlines for their print editions, but when those headlines are shoveled on to the web as a link to a story they become misleading to the reader and and even harder for a search engine to understand. Many newspapers depend [...]

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 [...]

Online media guru Rob Curley is sharing the details that went into the Naples Daily News Studio 55 Vodcast. He covers where the idea came from,how they implemented and why it worked. It’s the way newspapers should try convergence.

Jim Romenkso’s MediaNews column on Poynter Online had three interesting and I believe related stories this morning. We’ll start with the bad news and move to the good. After cutting their circulation area in April to a 200 mile radius, the Dallas Morning News reports that they are cutting it [...]

I’ve been focusing a lot on how convergence in the newsroom is affecting photographers as I worked on my lesson on displaying photographs on the screen for my Introduction to Photography class. As I’ve been surfing around looking at different newspaper websites, I’ve been amazed by the differences in quality [...]

In a memo sent out yesterday and posted on Romensko today, Craig Dubox, the CEO of Gannett, makes plans to turn all of Gannett’s newsrooms into a platform agnostic information center that ensures that the right news and information will be delivered to the right media. After piloting the project [...]

In the issue of Digital Content Producer that I received yesterday there is a great article about newspaper newsroom convergence with many photographers producing multimedia slideshows and video. Of particular interest to me was Dallas Morning News Photographer David Leeson exclusively shooting high definition video and then pulling frames for [...]