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Nashua Telegraph Opens Editorial Board Interviews
with Streaming Video
New! Snapshot from the Edge 
After more than 50 years of closed-door editorial board interviews with presidential candidates, The Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph opened the process by partnering with a local high school to feature streaming live video of the events on the newspaper’s Web site. The first of 18 editorial board candidate interviews took place at Nashua High School South September 24.
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Digital Edge Blog: Interview with Damon Kiesow – The Nashua Telegraph
Damon Kiesow, managing editor for online at The Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph, was one of the key players in helping the newspaper open its editorial board interviews with presidential candidates. Read what he had to say about the project on the Digital Edge blog.
Coming next week: Dispatches from the Online News Association conference in Toronto. The new RSS feed for the Digital Edge blog is at www.naa.org/blog/digitaledge/rss.cfm. Please update your RSS reader with this information. | |
Toronto Star Ends Afternoon PDF Edition
The Toronto Star on Wednesday stopped production of its afternoon PDF edition, one of the first in North America, Editor & Publisher reported. The StarP.M. was produced Monday through Friday, and readers could download the print the edition onto 12 letter-size pages. The Star will renew focus on its Web site and a new mobile service.
Source: Editor & Publisher
Advertisers Still Lag Behind Consumer Behavior in Digital Arena
Advertisers are still lagging way behind consumers in terms of where and how advertisers spend money, a study from Booz Allen Hamilton revealed. Although consumers spend significant amounts of time online, “most marketers allocate only 5 percent to 10 percent of their ad budgets to digital media,” The Wall Street Journal reported. Booz Allen Hamilton and the Association of National Advertisers released the study this week.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Business Magazines Struggle, Face Competition from Web
“For many decades, publishers of business magazines such as BusinessWeek, Fortune and Forbes thrived by following a simple formula: Target upscale executives and sell ad space to auto makers, financial-services firms and technology companies,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “But in recent years, that formula has come undone. The dot-com meltdown in 2000 sent technology advertising into a steep decline. The slump in the auto industry has led to a cutback in car advertising. And then there's the Web, which has weakened the magazines' hold on their readers and advertisers.”
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Related: BusinessWeek Print Redesign Feels ‘Webby’
(BusinessWeek)
BusinessWeek magazine’s print redesign will incorporate a high number of Web-elements. BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum wrote in a blog entry, “We're introducing this type of open source aggregation into the new magazine, with blog items, quotes, and content from unusual, global sources surrounding stories, sometimes enhancing them, sometimes disagreeing with them. It's a conversation, not a lecture. We're also doing briefing, setting the agenda for what's important. In the flood of information flowing over the Web today, we need editors or curators to prioritize what's important and what's not.”
Google Earth Layer Includes Geo-Tagged YouTube Videos
Google Earth now features geo-tagged YouTube videos, complete with thumbnail preview, number of views and community ratings, CNet’s News.com reported. Google released the Google Earth layer yesterday, and had soft-launched a location and date tagging system on YouTube this summer.
Source: CNet
ABC Reshapes the News for the Web
ABC News is the only television network using its evening newscasters, including Charles Gibson, to produce a program specifically for the Web. Over the past 20 months, the World News Webcast has morphed from a daily news summary video into a 15-minute Webcast with long segments that intentionally “look raw and personal, as if they were made for MTV rather than ABC,” The New York Times reported.
“Executives at the broadcast networks know they have opportunities online that they do not have on television — namely, to take chances by testing new forms of news delivery and new types of storytelling. They are also mindful that making their content relevant online is a good way to attract the younger audiences who are less likely to tune in to the evening news on television,” according to The Times.
Source: The New York Times
DailyMe Opens Public Beta
DailyMe, a customizable, Web-based news service, has opened a public beta testing period, Mashable reported. News consumers can customize their DailyMe online newspapers by choosing categories, keywords and trusted sources. The stories come from The Associated Press, USA Today, Tribune Co. and dozens of other newspapers and other media outlets. DailyMe can e-mailed stories at a certain time of day, send them to a printer and more.
Sources: Mashable, DailyMe, Journerdism
Blinkx Combines Social Networking, User-Generated Videos, Advertising
London-based Blinkx is launching a program that will pay people for videos they embed on their own blogs, social networking profile pages or Web sites – if the video poster embeds advertising into the video. The New York Times reported, “By combining two Internet trends — social networking and online video — with a moneymaking opportunity, Blinkx hopes to better compete with YouTube.” The move is a strategy shift for Blinkx, which has been focusing on video search.
Source: The New York Times
N.Y. Times: E-mail is Easy to Write (and to Misread)
New studies (and personal experience) have revealed how easy it is to miscommunicate tone and intent over e-mail, Daniel Goleman wrote in The New York Times. “New findings have uncovered a design flaw at the interface where the brain encounters a computer screen: there are no online channels for the multiple signals the brain uses to calibrate emotions. Face-to-face interaction, by contrast, is information-rich…. In contrast to a phone call or talking in person, e-mail can be emotionally impoverished when it comes to nonverbal messages that add nuance and valence to our words.”
Source: The New York Times
Former CNet CEO Bonnie Moves to Politics Portal
Former CNet CEO Shelby Bonnie has helped launch Political Base, a non-partisan voter information site. Political Base is using content from the Federal Election Commission, Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube among other sources. Political Base is also offering data widgets and “hoping to inspire an active community to gather, share and submit content,” MediaPost reported.
Sources: MediaPost, Political Base
Get FED with NAA Federation Membership!
Here’s the deal: Refer someone who has never been a prior Federation member and earn one chance to win. Refer two and earn two chances, etc. Four winners will be selected in a random drawing and awarded American Express Gift Certificate(s) in denominations of $500, $250, $150 and $100. Share with your colleagues the value you’ve gotten from your membership, sponsor and win!
To sign up, visit www.naa.org/getfed or call Membership Services at (800) 656-4622. Make sure the new member mentions your name as his/her sponsor on their application so you get the credit (and chances to win!). Winners will be announced in the NAA Federation Newsletter.
NAA Foundation Launches YouTube Contest: Win an iPhone
The Newspaper Association of America Foundation is launching a major initiative to engage young newspaper readers and we need your help! The Foundation has launched a YouTube contest designed to encourage teens to tell us how they use newspapers in their lives – for anything from acing their current events test to making weekend plans – so we can learn more about how our future audience interacts with newspaper products. Prizes include an iPhone and a trip for two to Washington, D.C. Learn more at www.naafoundation.org.
NAA Minority Fellowships: Climbing the Ladder to Newspaper Management Success
The Minority Fellowship program is designed to widen opportunities for minority professionals to enter or advance in newspaper management. Newspaper executives and journalism educators are asked to nominate candidates who demonstrate managerial potential and other academic and media organizations. The next application deadline for the Minority Fellowship program will be October 31, 2007.
For more information about the program, go to NAA.org and search “minority fellowship”.