Chris Snider

I’m a big proponent of using free, readily available tools to enhance coverage on your news website. Today, the Des Moines Register showed us that sometimes you get what you pay for when using free tools. Their use of a pop-up ad, side-of-the-page ads, live video and a live chat on the home page created [...]

Not seeing the kind of following you’d like on your Facebook fan page? Here are some tips to gain new followers and better engage the ones you already have. 1. Supersize your profile photo Facebook allows you to have a 200×600 pixel profile photo. Most fan pages simply post a square photo, missing out on [...]

Apple’s announcement last week of a new iPod touch was a big one. The three biggest new features were the Retina display, Facetime video calling and HD video. That third one, for the journalism world, is a winner. With the addition of a camera, the iPod touch now becomes the do-it-all device no journalist should [...]

Here’s a look at the how the top 100 newspapers (by print circulation) are doing in their efforts to gain fans on Facebook. The Top 10 The Top 10 newspapers on Facebook remained the same from August to September, although the LA Times jumped ahead of the Chicago Tribune into the No. 6 spot. The [...]