Rocky Mountain News ‘Final edition’

by | Feb 28, 2009 | Digital ideas

If you work for a newspaper, please take the time to watch this: Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. Obviously the Rocky was in a different situation than most newspapers (being in a two-newspaper town). But I hope this opens a few more eyes to the fact we...

Making money off of someone else’s work

by | Feb 23, 2009 | Digital information

I just got a call from someone in Omaha asking me if I had see this: Apparently Hearst TV sites are pulling in headlines from other sources and adding those headlines to their site (rather prominently, I might add). I have no problem with this. I think it’s a...

Five web features you should steal

by | Feb 15, 2009 | Digital ideas

Need some online inspiration? Just take a stroll through some other web sites and learn from what others are doing. With that in mind, here are five ideas that could benefit almost any news web site out there: The azcentral.com live module. Nothing complicated here....

Promoting our web sites in print

by | Feb 2, 2009 | Digital information

On a recent trip to Honolulu, I was impressed with the simple, straightforward way the Honolulu Advertiser promoted the web site under it’s flag every day: This got me wondering how other papers throughout the country did the same thing. What I found was that...