Of newspapers and milk

I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of the final edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Reading it weeks after the fact gave me some perspective, and like many readers I’m sure – made me a bit wistful for the paper and the history it helped cultivate. It is bittersweet to see [...]

RTNDA Edward R. Murrow awards announced

Seems like quite a few divisions without any web winners this year. Quick list below – full list of all winners here. KOMO, Seattle, WA – komonews.com KREM, Spokane, WA – KREM.COM KGMB-TV, Honolulu, HI – KGMB9.com KCNC-TV, Denver, CO – cbs4denver.com WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, MN – WCCO.com KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, SD – KELOLAND.com WBNS-TV, Columbus, [...]

AP complains over YouTube video, hilarity ensues

Oh the AP. WTNQ Radio in Tennessee embedded an Associated Press video on its website — from YouTube. Then a regional AP rep e-mailed the station demanding they take it down, saying it was a violation of the station’s license agreement. The AP also offered to sign the station up for some AP web services. [...]

Things I’ve learned about Twitter

Is your station on Twitter yet? And by “on Twitter,” I don’t mean either “you have an account reserved,” or “we feed our news headlines into it automatically.” Both of those options are a fine baby step, but not enough. Several months ago, we dumped the TwitterFeed from our RSS and went with a human-managed [...]

“Why a Little Wonder is a Good Thing”

I spoke at the first-ever Ignite Boise last week – and talked about how we’re using Twitter – both to help cover stories and provide information. The Ignite format is really cool — five minutes with 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. About 14 different people talked on a wide variety of topics. This [...]

Big publishers to Google: Treat us special

Several big newspaper publishers (and ESPN) have formed a group to pressure Google to rejigger the PageRank feature to give them preferential treatment. Many publishers resent the criteria Google uses to pick top results, starting with the original PageRank formula that depended on how many links a page got. But crumbling ad revenue is lending [...]

Breaking: Seattle P-I to go online only

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will print its final edition tonight, for distribution tomorrow. The paper will go online only starting tomorrow — the first major market newspaper to do so. All eyes will be on SeattlePI.com in the coming months as newspaper companies desperately look for a new sustainable model of business. Video of the publisher’s newsroom announcement…

And press release follows beneath the break…

Will future of news come from Seattle?

Seattle is often a hot topic here on Lost Remote — and surely it’s partly because our founder lives there (and I used to) — but the city is becoming the ultimate case study on the future of the news industry. Three reasons why: The neighborhood blog trend. While cities across the country have these [...]

PI on verge of going online-only

The Seattle P-I has a report on… well… on itself today. The story does some investigative digging inside its own newsroom – and finds out that several staffers have likely been given an offer from Hearst to become part of an online-only affair. The deal for staffers? Less money, more health costs, no OT, less [...]

In Rocky’s aftermath, journalism rises

Several staffers who lost their gigs when the Rocky Mountain News was shut down last week are still practicing. Highlights include InsideTheRockies.com – a site dedicated to the baseball team, and several staffers writing pieces for IWantMyRocky.com.

Phoenix stations to share chopper

Three Phoenix TV stations are going to share a single news helicopter — something we called for after a chopper accident in the area killed four people in 2007. Five helicopters were flying a pointless car chase the day of the accident. The agreement puts together an outside firm that will fly stories for KPHO, [...]

NYT: Internet dooms most media… but not TV

With all the doom and gloom about the end of the old-media world, the New York Times notes that there’s one media that is still thriving: TV. Newspapers are drying up — books aren’t selling — and people are spending more and more time online. But they’re also still watching TV — in record amounts [...]

“The newest form of electronic journalism”

This is nearly mind-blowing: a 1981 KRON-TV report on a little experiment that allows you to get a San Francisco newspaper on your home computer! “We’re probably not going to lose a lot, but we’re not going to make a lot either.” 28 years later it appears the first part wasn’t right… but so far [...]

House kills DTV bill

Maybe we can commence worrying about the future and cease worrying about the past: The US House of Representatives canned the DTV bill today. Anything’s possible of course, but it appears the 2/17/09 date will stay put.

Report: YouTube will let media put ads on their material

This could be huge. TechCrunch says YouTube will soon allow content providers to put ads on their content — regardless of who uploaded it. The ability to sell their own ads on YouTube is a big deal for larger media companies, especially those which are already selling Web video ads across their own sites. Media [...]

Google cans Print Ads feature

Google’s attempt to sell ads for newspapers is going away. Even with more than 800 newspaper partners, Google couldn’t make it work out the way it hoped. In the farewell blog post, the director of Google’s print ads team says Google hasn’t given up on newspapers: We believe fair and accurate journalism and timely news [...]

CNN.com’s new GM is on quest for love

LR friend Brian Stelter wrote what’s become my first must-read piece of the new year – and it centers on new CNN.com GM KC Estenson. Right up front, Estenson said something about CNN.com that will change the way I think about how to guide a news site: “My hunch is that people go to it [...]

Who should save the PI? Cory & Kate…

The folks at TechFlash have provided some of the best coverage of the shockwaves at the Seattle PI — and their list of suggestions for “techies who could help nurture and save” the PI’s website suggests Cory and Kate Bergman: Cory and Kate Bergman: The husband-and-wife team run MyBallard.com, the popular local news blog for [...]