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6 Reasons the BBC Gets the Web

I’ve loved the BBC for many years.
If I had a dream job it would living somewhere in England working with their digital teams and thinking up new ways to get people information. They are the model for what should be done.
Before we go any farther down the line, I realize their business and management structure [...]

Pegasus News: Community-Driven News in Dallas

I first stumbled upon Pegasus News at South by Southwest Interactive and I wasn’t very impressed. To be fair, it was near the end of the event and we were crammed in the back of the Lucky Lounge. I was tired and exhausted.
Clearly this was another case where my better judgment decided to take a [...]

Stocks and Finance 2.0

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I’m not a big finance guy so I’ve never been keenly attracted to the business pages of a newspaper, but I can see the value in having a strong editorial presence.
In a modern world, it’s important to rethink how newspapers cover business.
I’ve written a bit about what the Business 2.0 section should look [...]

When Hyperlocal Isn’t

The story of the demise of the Washington Post’s big “experiment” with hyperlocal content is going to matter to exactly one group of people: reporters.
But I fear that the story will be framed in the way The Wall Street Journal (normally my favorite paper to read because of it’s writing) choose to go instead of [...]

Bloomberg: A Model Modern Newsroom

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I’ve been enamored with the Bloomberg journalism model for several years. As far back as my days at Berkeley in 1998-2000, the reporters I knew who worked there told me stories of working across multiple mediums. For them, it wasn’t a choice — it was the job.
One friend, who occasionally joined a streaming [...]

Better Data, Less Information is Key to Young Readers

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I’ve always rejected the notion that my generation — and the ones behind me — are less interested in reading and have short attention spans when it comes to the news.
I’ve found that logic to be condescending and arrogant, telling people that they are consuming their news and information in correct ways. Turns [...]

Blogs and Link Journalism

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Buster Olney and Jayson Stark are my favorite writers at ESPN.com. Mostly because they cover baseball and I can’t live without baseball (including MLB.tv, which for $10 per month lets me watch and listen to every baseball game each month through my computer, which is hooked up to my TV).
That I love two [...]

Amazon, Borders: A Tale of Two Futures

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Borders Books is back. Back online anyway.
Seven years after striking a deal with Amazon to merge a large portion of its online operations, the brick-and-mortar bookseller announced it would strike out on its own in an attempt to sell books the new-fashioned way: through a website.
I’d characterize the reaction online as lukewarm.
Some folks [...]

Straight to the Source: A Sports Story

One of the arguments I’m making in the book is that news organizations need to find a way to remain relevant in a world where every content company — regardless of what kind of content — can create a service that reaches directly to readers.
We’ve seen some of these effects in television already. The [...]

ESPN Get Local with Sports

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I’ve been discussing high school sports coverage with various reporter friends, which is one areas that local papers should really knock it out of the park.
The simplest solution is to set up a fantasy-type system — and a predictive market system — for local teams, then make sure that there were enough folks [...]

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