• How to Build a Better Content Model for Your Site: Understanding News Consumption Patterns
  "To combat this attention diversion, usability experts like Jakob Nielsen have long suggested that one write scannable content because readers don't have the attention/time to read much web content (and they don't)."
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• How to get your site into Google News
  A Google insider basically says "original content", "multiple authors," "proper attribution," and "response time."
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• How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine
  "Nielsen's apt description of the online reader: '[U]sers are selfish, lazy, and ruthless.' You, my dear user, pluck the low-hanging fruit. When you arrive on a page, you don't actually deign to read it. You scan. If you don't see what you need, you're gone."
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• HowardOwens.com best newspaper web site awards
  Howard Owens lists his best of newspaper.com awards. These should sites should serve as inspiration to all other newspaper sites.
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• I hate numbers
  Zac Echola reminds everyone that there are real people behind web site numbers.
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• It's a lo-o-o-ong way from Lawrence, Kan., to Loudoun County, Va.
  "Curley and his team did produce some rich hyperlocal content in Loudoun. But it was mostly what he calls 'little J' – Little League, proms, crime blotters. But because each community didn't get its own homepage, the little J news was lost in the welter of headlines and promos of the single, countywide homepage. "A community site should have two tiers – one for the little J and one for what Curley calls the 'big J.'"
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• It's clear, for information content, free has won
  "People won't pay for information. Entertainment, yes; information, no."
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• Journalism's essential blogposts
  A list of useful newspaper blog posts provided by Shane Richmond of the Telegraph.
  with newspaper-industry
• Journalistopia online crime maps directory
  A listing of crime maps from all over the Internet. The use of maps on newspaper web sites with news or data is absolutely brilliant.
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• Journalists who want to own their names in Google need follow a few simple steps
  Howard Owens lists several steps for journalists to "own" their name on Google.
  with journalism-2.0
• Las Vegas Sun Website: 9 Things I Love About It
  Todd Zeigler of the Bivings Report discusses the nine things he likes about the beautiful and well-executed Las Vegas Sun site.
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• Let your youngest journalists do stories about what interests them
  As a way to attract younger readers both in print and online, Howard Owens suggests letting young reporters simply report on things that interest them.
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• Local Link Journalism: Pulling Together The Threads Of Local Blogger Reporting
  During a March snow storm in Tennessee, the Knoxnews.com used link journalism to describe the storms impact on people.
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• Looking for a textbook for online journalism?
  A textbook the covers many of the Journalism 2.0 concepts including videos.
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• LudonExtra.com's traffic leaders
  "In descending order of traffic volume: 1. Breaking news coverage 2. High school sports 3. Restaurant guide and other data driven service features 4. Old-fashioned newspaper-style news coverage"
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• Mobile data: Next hurdle for journalism
  Mindy McAdams makes the case that mobile devices will be an important delivery mechanism of news and the numbers back her up.
  with journalism-2.0 mobile
• Modernize your newsroom today
  Four dirt cheap ideas and one more expensive ways to modernize your newsroom.
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• Molten content, data ghettos and why your CMS problems are an excuse, not a reason
  Matt Waite, one of the developers behind PolitiFact, discusses data ghettos and molten content. This blog post is interesting and worth a read.
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• NAA report is good overview of newspaper video
  "It provides some interesting stats on how papers are approach video, a fairly comprehensive overview of different strategic approaches (including GateHouse's), and some hints, tips and equipment options for getting into video."
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• Newsletters - your secret to developing sources
  Yoni Greenbaum advocates using newsletters as a way to garner more sources for a reporter.
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