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Shopping for readers: a proposal for local news

by Tim Windsor on November 29, 2008

As she often does, Amy Gahran got me thinking today, this time about the average-at-best job local news organizations do covering consumer news. She asks whether news orgs could focus on shopping year-round, and not just on Black Friday, to do a better job of offering utility to readers.
The short answer: yes. The long answer, [...]

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Most-read, or most-reviled?

by Tim Windsor on September 30, 2008

William Lobdell, who previously wrote a trenchant and sadly accurate critique of the state of papers in general and the LA Times in particular, has looked at the “Most popular” feature at local web sites and decided the list of stories indicates that there’s no future for news online.
I think he needs to take a [...]

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