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Responding to readers by proxy
After reading a story on the Billings Gazette’s Web site about a woman who spent several months living in a sandstone cave above the city, I perused the story’s comments.
This was among them:
My question is, why didn’t the reporter respond himself? If there’s a policy preventing him from doing so, why does the paper [...]
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A cooling off period in Bloomington, Ill.
Okay, this is the wrong way to build a civil community on your newspaper’s Web site. Just before the new year, the staff at the Pentagraph in Bloomington, Ill., decided that the comments on its stories were too uncivil, so the paper took its ball and went home:
Reader comments on Pantagraph.com often are informative, [...]
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Lightning strikes again
Tuesday was a banner day for the Web site thanks to the Drudge Report, which linked to our article about stimulus spending on Bogert Park tennis courts.
According to analytics, Amanda Ricker’s article has received more than 50,000 page views, which, as most of the newsroom knows from our Friday Web stats reports, is considerably [...]
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Newspapers in education
I just watched a report on KBZK, our local CBS affiliate, that told me that the weatherman spent some time in a local elementary school explaining what the station does and what it has available on its newscasts and Web site.
They’re trying to draw readers and viewers to their products. What are we doing to [...]
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Pew releases its ‘Millenials’ report