The local future of vertical search
There’s a key difference between local and national news outlets that has so far insulated small newspapers from online competition but which will eventually leave them even more vulnerable than their...
View ArticleWalling off the local news garden: A-OK
Unlike national news outlets, local papers have good reason to be tempted by last week’s talk about withholding news content from search engines. The story stirred up a predictable tizzy among...
View ArticleA vertical search for national news
The Associated Press’s CEO “can’t imagine” why national news outlets haven’t teamed up to wall off their news content within their own search engine. I’m skeptical about such a plan, but it’s related...
View ArticleReinventing news for a search-based world
On OJR, Robert Niles has a fascinating suggestion for completely rethinking online news: replace inverted-pyramid newspaper articles with staff-written wikis. (For which he suggests the delightful...
View ArticleClosing the software gap
Can newspapers maintain competitive software on a smaller, less Soviet scale than Tom Mohr would have us believe? Here are two signs that a few folks still think it’s worth a try. 1) Reviewing the...
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People are looking for people
It’s an obvious rule of thumb: Journalists should be creating information that’s scarce. Some information is scarce because it just popped into existence. That information is called news. It’s quite...
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