Bivings Report names Top 10 U.S. newspaper sites
August 17, 2007
I know I’m a little late to this party, but there have been quite a few links going around to the Bivings Report’s list of that group’s views of the Top 10 newspaper sites in the United States.
I really have to applaud some of the choices on that list.
It may not be obvious in a sea of large market and national newspaper brands, but the Knoxville News Sentinel has quietly put together one of the best local news sites in the nation. The Bivings Report talks about the site’s clean design (which is *very* nice), but it’s the …
Great article about Facebook in current issue of Newsweek
August 13, 2007
Over my last several month’s worth of presentations, I’ve been telling a lot of journalists they should join (or at least try to understand) Facebook.
This week’s cover story in Newsweek is a great overview of Facebook by Steven Levy. If you still haven’t joined Facebook, at least read this story.
Newspapers should be concerned with how the people in their communities communicate and stay informed. That’s just one of the reasons why I think newspaper folks should try to understand and appreciate Facebook.
I would bet that in nearly every city in the United States, the fastest growing …
A few job descriptions for a newspaper’s new-media team
August 1, 2007
I’m always surprised at how the questions and phone calls I get kind of come in waves of specific topics.
The topic that it seems I’m getting asked the most about right now is “will I share our job descriptions?”
That’s a hard one for me because if you ask those who have worked with me, we really don’t have set job descriptions and I’m not sure I’ve ever really told someone what exactly his or her job is.
But when I came to Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, all of the positions that were going to be on our new products team had to be …
