Top Newspaper Web Sites List
Interesting tidbit coming out of The Bivings Group: A subjective list of the “Top 10″ newspaper web sites. The New York Times tops the list. Can’t disagree with that. As is so often the case, when the Times does something in journalism, it does it better than anyone else. Washington Post comes in second. I [...]
PR Pros on WSJ Sale: Yawn…
PR Week made a few calls last week and concluded that the sale of the Wall Street Journal was “no biggie” to the PR industry. The author, Hamilton Nolan, wrote a story for the print version of PR Week and then blogged about it on PR Week’s site, providing quite a bit more detail in [...]
Hidden in Plain View
It’s always interesting when a journalist finds out what it’s like to be on the other side. Editor & Publisher’s online edition has a story posted called “Hidden Cost of Newsroom Cuts,” in which Dave Astor, a senior editor of E&P writes about his discovery that it’s harder than ever to reach editors, even when [...]
Google's New Comment Feature: Big Media Relations Potential
Sorry I didn’t jump on this for you right away — I’ve been in Vegas for some R&R at the Wynn. Last week, Google announced that it would add the ability to post comments on stories running on Google News. They said that any “participant” in a story — a quoted person or a representative [...]
The Washington Post and the Future of the Media
Fortune magazine has a profile of what the Washington Post is doing to evolve as a news organization. It’s definitely worth a read. Here are a few snippets that I think tell a lot about where we are in the evolution of the media in the Internet world: “Barry Svrluga, a 36-year-old baseball writer for [...]
A Half-Baked Milestone
Just caught wind of this and wanted to comment on it: Earlier this week, Sun Microsystems released its quarterly earnings press release on its own web site and news feeds first, then on PRNewswire 10 minutes later. The decision was first announced by Sun’s pony-tailed CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, on his famous blog, on July 24. [...]
More on Dow Jones
Of course, the media world is awash in commentary about the Dow Jones deal and “what it all means.” It would be impossible to summarize it except to say there is a range of opinion, from “he won’t really change anything” to “it’s over.” If you’re interested in reading more, go to Romenesko’s page on [...]