Most Post writers try to answer e-mail
May 31, 2006
Most Washington Post reporters and editors say they read and try to answer most e-mail, according to the paper’s ombudsman. Here are some interesting responses from reporters about the usefulness of that e-mail.
Could AP have been Google News?
May 30, 2006
Forbes Editor Paul Maidment wonders whether The Associated Press could have held the space now occupied by Google News and Yahoo! News and done the job better as it both creates and aggregates news…
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Journal News wins award for transit strike coverage
May 29, 2006
The Journal News of Westchester, N.Y., won the SPJ’s Deadline Club Web News Exclusive award for its online coverage of the New York City transit strike in December.
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Ruling in Apple case bolsters Web reporters
May 28, 2006
A California appeals court has ruled that online reporters are protected by the same confidentiality laws that protect traditional journalists, The New York Times reports.
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48 million Americans have posted online
May 28, 2006
A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project says home broadband adoption is going mainstream, which means user-generated content is coming from all kinds of internet users, not just the most wired people as in the past.
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1/3 of referrals to washingtonpost.com from blogs
May 28, 2006
In a signing of the growing power of blogs to drive traffic online, WashingtonPost.com Executive Editor Jim Brady says that one-third of the referrals washingtonpost.com gets now comes through blogs.
More people read blog than many newspapers
May 28, 2006
“Barely four years after Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, a former American soldier who grew up in El Salvador and Chicago, started Daily Kos from his home in Berkeley, Calif., the site is now less a blog than a civic phenomenon,” The New York Times reports.
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Technorati, AP partner
May 25, 2006
Technorati and the Associated Press have partnered to help readers of AP content on more than 440 AP member newspapers connect with bloggers.
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Adapt or Die
May 25, 2006
As newspaper companies confront a challenging future, they are increasingly viewing their trademark print product as the engine driving a diverse “portfolio” that embraces other “platforms” such as Web sites and niche publications. Is this a strategy for survival?
AP, Topix partner
May 24, 2006
As part of a 15-month agreement, the AP will identify the stories that local papers contribute to the news cooperative so Topix’s search engine can do a better job displaying links to the original source material, E&P reports.