We’re welcoming Scotty Anderson to our Opinion pages as he takes over the every other weekend slot opposite Chuck Pezeshki. Actually, Scotty’s arrival to the page isn’t entirely new — he’s been contributing as a Town Crier for the last couple of years. His tenure as a Crier was coming to a close so we [...]
Monday, July 27, 2009
It isn’t just newspaper companies claiming the future includes charging for information online. According to a report at Bloomberg.com, the chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp said people can expect to pay for what they use online, “joining the refrain of media moguls who say an era of free Internet content is ending. The media and technology executive, [...]
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Some planned maintenance to our e-mail system caused a few hiccups at the office Wednesday and has our IT department putting in some extra time to get us up and running. Our system was down from about noon until 5:30 for what we thought would be routine updates to the system. Of course, after the first [...]
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
We’ve opened up another avenue to deliver information to people with a Twitter page for people to follow online. It’s not exactly revolutionary, but it’s a new step for us as we experiment with ways to pass along information to readers. My guess is we’ll use it as a spot to let people know what’s breaking [...]
Monday, June 29, 2009
Copyright protection in the online world is going to be an exciting area of discussion in the coming years, and columnist Connie Schultz got the ball rolling recenly with her piece in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Schultz writes about a recent panel discussion during which David Marburger brought up the idea of dramatically changing federal copyright [...]
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
OK, there’s not really a Buffy. But there might be a vampire. Newspapers publishers continue to discuss the idea of putting online content behind a pay wall. Editor and Publisher has a couple of articles about it. In one, the CEO of NewsCorps Dow Jones Co. describes Google as a “digital vampire” that has earned [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
My boys made this a memorable Father’s Day, with my oldest adding to the list of possible professions he would consider. For several years, he was stuck on becoming a paleontologist and has added a couple of new ones each month. Last week, he decided that it wouldn’t be bad if he became a reporter. [...]
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Anonymous posts online soon will get a run through the courts in Nevada after a federal prosecutor decided to go after all kinds of information about posters at the Las Vegas Review Journal’s web site. According to an AP report in Editor and Publisher: Along with the real names of people who posted comments, the subpoena asks [...]
Monday, June 15, 2009
John Morton has an excellent column in the most recent edition of American Journalism Review that points to the significant differences within the newspaper industry that seem to be overlooked when pundits talk about the health of journalism. As Morton notes in his column, about 70 percent of the country’s daily newspapers would be considered “small” [...]
Friday, June 12, 2009
Our very own Rock Doc, E. Kirsten Peters, has hit something of a milestone. Her weekly column is now distributed to more than 500,000 homes by newspapers across the country. I’ll be tossing out some accolades in my Saturday column to mark the occasion. Kirsten, who now works for the College of Science at Washington State [...]
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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