Sunday, October 29, 2006

More from New Orleans conference

Look at these comments and think about who might have written them : • We post news as soon as we have it, not when it fits our daily print schedule. • Our photographers are posting online many more photos than we have room to print. • We’re rewriting job descriptions to reflect the Internet responsibilities of every journalist in the newsroom. • We’ve allowed readers comments on news articles for about five years. • We’re training all of our journalists on multimedia skills. • We have our reporters blogging to help them understand the Internet audience and to help build our online traffic. • We have online readers vote on tomorrow’s front-page news. • We’re working a complete redesign of our Web sites to make it easier for our readers to contribute photos, stories, blogs and other material. • We’re learning to do broadcast news. This week, our company broadcast its first live video. We showed our online viewers a hotly contested congressional debate. Newspapers have the opportunity to be online TV and radio stations. This is particularly exciting in community markets like mine that have traditionally been under-served by broadcasters. They come from an online piece Away in New Orleans: When Cultures Collide Virtual Greality by Chris Cobler who writes an Online Publisher's Blog for The Tribune from Northern Colorado. He is reporting from the same conference referenced in my last post.

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