As of today, I can be found on my souped-up The Times blog on the new blogging platform developed by (the ever-so-slightly overworked) Colin Daniels for the interactive paper. I’m not so sure about the pictures on the masthead, but I’m told this is the corporate look … I suppose there is always photoshop.
Archive for May, 2007
Wild Frontier goes home …
Posted in The Times on May 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Lesley starts blogging
Posted in The Times on May 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The redoubtable Lesley Mofokeng, entertainment reporter extraordinaire at the Sunday Times has started a blog on the Times platfrom. It will follow his life as Mr Entertainment and, of late, as a contestant in the Strictly Come Dancing competition. He is the second blogger on our platform following the somewhat hurried launch of the Bullog.
Slow and steady wins the race
Posted in The Times on May 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We have been on a steep learning curve since Wednesday last week when we started working to our regular schedule. Here are some issues:
Our final dummy has a lot of added value concepts that require focus and hard work to find, write, edit and lay out. The streamlining of scheduling and the features production process has [...]
Masthead for Friday …
Posted in The Times on May 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Masthead, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
A glimpse of the masthead for our friday dummy while it was being designed …
Bulls vs Sharks – the battle of the blogs
Posted in The Times on May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gotta love those brilliant Amatomu buzzgraphs. Check this one out on the Bulls vs Sharks.
Meanwhile, SA Rugby has issued an official statement on how much Luke Watson bench-pressed. Really.
First Splash
Posted in The Times on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
First Splash, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
An ever-so-slightly tense news editor, Marvin Meintjies, edits the first splash contender after our first dummy run today. Note the clenched fist …
Added Friday morning: I can happily report that no other newspaper had our splash! Phew!
Virginia Tech: A thoughtful piece from Wired
Posted in David Bullard, The Times, blog on May 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Read this great piece from Wired about over-reaction to the Virginia Tech killings. In light of the recent Blog Day Afternoon over Bullard, this sentence did catch my eye:
A high school student was suspended for customizing a first-person shooter game with a map of his school.
Just the kind of geek that … ?
So there we were sitting …
Posted in The Times on May 17, 2007 | 18 Comments »
… in the conference room at our first ever proper “news conference” at 11AM. I said: “This is our first ever news confere…” then this fire alarm went off. We got up and joined a 20 minute queue to get out of our fire exit (all toast by then, I should imagine) and adjourned to [...]
Super Wednesday
Posted in Newsroom, The Times, columnists, newspaper on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the first day that we follow our daily production routine, which includes two news conferences a day, story and multimedia production, the taking of pictures, allocation of copy and the production of pages. Basically, everything but printing the paper. Once we enter this daily cycle, our focus will shift permanently from thinking to [...]
Memo to managers
Posted in Newsroom, The Times, newspaper, old media on May 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
SOME ISSUES
1. WOMEN
We have a 52% women readership. Do we provide the kind of content that they would want to consume. Enough of it? Presented in the right way? Do they need special content?
2. CHILDREN
A major content demand was for educational material for the kids – ranked 3 after Breaking News and Business as a [...]
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