Tag Archives: Newspapers

Ten tips for kick-starting a malnourished news website

By Julie Starr | Published: November 22, 2011
We can’t all be the New York Times or the Guardian. Many smaller newspaper newsrooms are still grappling with the basics of how to get their websites moving given a small staff, lack of digital expertise and uncertainty over revenue opportunities. Sometimes there’s no real will among managers for the task. But even when there [...]
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A simple test for whether people will pay for news

By Julie Starr | Published: September 8, 2011
So you’re a daily newspaper guy and you think people have always paid for news. Fair enough. Some of your readers probably do pay for news. But if you want to charge for your news online you’re going to need to know roughly how many people are willing to pay for it so you can [...]
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Tablet owners ‘read newspapers, magazines less often’

By Julie Starr | Published: July 11, 2011
A couple of interesting observations in this June 30 post from Jeff Sonderman on Poynter. He cites Forrester Research (via TechZone360) showing that tablet owners read newspapers less often than they did before owning a tablet. Almost one-third (32 percent) of tablet owners say they read printed newspapers less often, according to the market research [...]
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How to post your news diary online and ask for reader input

By Julie Starr | Published: July 9, 2011
An interesting idea from a Swedish newspaper publisher which is sharing its daily news list online and asking readers for feedback and suggestions on what to cover and how. There’s a bit of work in it – someone has to monitor the discussion each day, and they record minutes for news conferences and post them [...]
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Waikato Times to become morning paper

By Julie Starr | Published: June 28, 2011
Well, well, well. The Waikato Times, part of Fairfax Media NZ, announced yesterday it would become a morning newspaper as of September this year. Here’s the blurb: The newspaper is New Zealand’s fourth largest daily and is the only afternoon paper in the country serving a major urban centre. It moved the Saturday edition to [...]
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