Scandinavian newspapers are doing lots of things right
July 3, 2007
My recent trip to meet with several newspaper folks in Scandinavia was great. Every single time I go to Europe for something like this, I get so much out of it.
I kept asking the folks who had brought me there why they had asked me to come talk with their newspaper staffs because they all were doing so many great new-media things really well. They didn’t need any help or suggestions from me!
And these aren’t huge newspapers. Most were right around the 50,000-circ level or lower.
The common theme of these newspapers is that they all are partners in something …
Our family is in Europe
June 24, 2007
I know I typically write about journalism issues on this blog, so this entry will be a little different than what I normally post …
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I am currently in Europe with my family. We’re here on a mixture of business and vacation.
Most of our trip will be in Scandinavia, where I have been (and will be) speaking with newspaper folks across the region.
The trip began in Copenhagen, Denmark, where I got to meet with lots of great and interesting people. I also got a sneak peek at a very impressive multimedia storytelling project that will launch next week from a …
Our team’s first big editorial project at The Washington Post: A collaboration with the finance desk for a detailed look at teen shopping
June 4, 2007
Back in January, I got this really cool e-mail over the weekend from Sandy Sugawara, who is the AME for financial news at The Washington Post. Sandy’s note basically recalled a conversation she had with her 13-year-old daughter and her friends about shopping and how stores like Abercrombie, The Gap, Hollister and even Nordstrom must be doing.
Sandy was impressed with not only how perceptive they were, but how — in many ways — what they were saying was right on with what was really happening with those businesses.
From there, we exchanged e-mails on how we could try to tell …
washingtonpost.com’s new Facebook app
May 24, 2007
Back in late April, I was asked by my bosses at The Washington Post and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive if I could meet with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. At the time, it was pretty hush-hush as to why.
In very short order, I was on a plane headed to Palo Alto — along with WPNI “new products team” colleague and programming genius Deryck Hodge — to meet with Mark and a bunch of other really cool and smart folks from Facebook. What they showed us was amazing. And ground-breaking.
Facebook was working on a new API that would allow others to …
Holovaty stepping out on his own
I first met Adrian Holovaty when he was still a student at the University of Missouri and I was at The Topeka Capital-Journal. It was Steve Klein who set up the introduction, and I’ve thanked Steve numerous times since!
From the first day I spoke with Adrian, I really wanted him to join our development team because he was one of the brightest people I had ever met.
And even in those earliest discussions, it was obvious he had really great ideas.
The best way to build a great web team is to surround yourself with people who are about a …
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