For those of you furious, fascinated or frazzled by recent Facebook tweaks to the user experience, get ready for the next big wave to come crashing in. And it is a big one. Last week Facebook announced coming changes to the profile pages, creating a new “Timeline” approach that will roll out in a matter […]
We left j-school thinking we had the answers, then we learned just how much we had to learn. I learned humility when I read my first correction in a 700,000-circ paper, apologizing for an error I had made in a story. I learned creativity when security blocked me and a photographer from entering the work site […]
Texas lawmen closed the country roads and started scouring the dusty ground late in the still-blazing afternoon in an isolated spot an hour-plus northeast of Houston, long beyond where the pavement turns to the Pineywoods. I got my first message at 4:07 p.m. Central time. It started: “POSSIBLE MAJOR STORY…” It came in all caps, […]
Think for a moment: which U.S. cities would lead a “best-read” list of books, magazines and newspapers. Amazon has pulled together its sales since Jan. 1 and come up with its own best-read list. Looking at cities over 100,000 population, the list is based on per capita sales for print and digital products from Amazon. […]
A decade ago I refereed a debate about the merits of copy editors on the 6th floor of a metro newspaper editing copy created by writers on the 8th floor of the same metro. Granted, they were in different departments, and didn’t have the same background as their same-floor copy editors. But this big step […]
In the Dark Ages – about two years ago – newspaper companies with a healthy stable of smaller to medium size properties felt like they had the ultimate insurance policy. Perceived remoteness. “It’ll be years before Google, Yahoo and the rest discover us,” was the line of thought, as they watched the metros they owned […]
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