• Can the Washington Post survive?
  An article examining the various problems the newspaper industry is facing with a specific focus on the Washington Post.
  with newspaper-industry
• CICM Contest Winners
  From the folks at the Innovation in College Media blog, a set of innovating college newspaper sites.
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• CMA wrap-up 3: web critiques
  A solid summary of items to grade your newspaper's online presence against.
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• College students still read campus newspapers
  While the circulation of many newspaper's are declining, it is important to note that college newspapers are not suffering circulation declines.
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• Context is king
  Zac Echola writes about linking to past articles about a subject in order to provide context to an article.
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• Court reporting — live updates via Twitter
  A cool usage of Twitter, noted by Mindy McAdams.
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• Curleyize your student newspaper
  While this was specifically written for a college student newspaper, most of the concepts can be generalized and applied to your newspaper.
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• Databases help you become the source for answers
  Steve Buttry of the Newspaper Next project discusses how databases of information on a newspaper web site can help build an audience. The post details databases in use by newspapers from around the country.
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• Dippity: another online timeline creator
  Another resource for creating timelines.
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• Do people "flip" over your business cards?
  Yoni suggests including profiles on twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. on your business cards as another way to reach the community.
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• Elephants can't find peanuts; may go hungry
  A post with links to many different takes of the Rob Curley's Loudoun hyperlocal flap.
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• Every Page Is A Home Page
  This is a good reminder that every page of your web site should have enough context (that includes navigation) for your user to find their way around your site of they happen to land there.
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• Facebook Boosts College Paper's Readership, Recruiting
  The University of Tampa newspaper, The Minaret, has created a profile on Facebook that has attracted 900 friends. The newspaper reported that this semester they recruited twice as many freshman staffers.
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• Facebook: Ripe for News Applications?
  A discussion about using FaceBook applications to attract newspaper readers.
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• Five lessons from 2007
  The Online Journalism Review offers some lessons from 2007: "get a breaking news blog," "get widget love," "learn from sports how to engage readers," "ask readers for information, not articles," and "call out the liars."
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• Gathering news not only for the next day but for now
  Carol Goodhue writes a success story of SignOnSanDiego's breaking news team which uses a web-first approach to publishing news. "Through its speedy postings, the team competes directly with TV, Baker said. 'But we get it right, we don't run stuff that's not confirmed yet, and we don't sensationalize it.'"
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• Getting to the web-first mentality
  Publishing to the web first may require some internal processes to change. This post, while focused on college newspapers, gives several suggestions that can be applied to many newspapers.
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• Guardian redesign video
  A fascinating discussion of the design of the Guardian newspaper both in print and online by Mark Potter.
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• How are visitors using comments?
  The International Herald Tribune reports that comment links on story summaries do far better than free-standing pleas for discussion.
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• How not to do hyperlocal
  Pat Thornton discusses how not to do hyperlocal web sites by using two Gannett sites as an example. He contrasts that with the Washington Post's Loudoun Extra web site.
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