Tag Archives: nzherald
A rant about …
What is it with these websites hooked on the dangling ellipsis? You know what I mean: a headline, half a sentence then... Here's a classic from TVNZ's TV On Demand offerings.
London’s Camden Market is on fire: anatomy of a breaking news story
9.30 this morning, NZ time: News of a big fire in London’s Camden Market reaches me on Twitter via a news feed from Netherlands-based BreakingNewsOn. They seemed to be getting information from Sky TV. By 10am NZ time, the Guardian had a picture and good story up complete with eye witness reports. The Times had [...]
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Herald news link-up with msn.co.nz
Nzherald.co.nz has linked up with msn.co.nz to flesh out the latter's news offering and drive traffic to the Herald site. Lance Wiggs documents the move on his blog: "NZHerald gets more traffic, pure and simple. MSN gets some real news on their rather sparse website. Stuff is still ahead in UB’s, (498k vs 456k last week) but NZHerald with this move has a Page View lead. For now."
One way to stop ads detracting from Herald’s media player
I realise now that nzherald.co.nz is selling more than one ad per slide show. Sorry to be a spoilsport, but it's distracting, so I'm just pulling the player further down my screen so the ads are tucked away out of sight below my toolbar.
Do podcasts work for news?