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 [...]
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Super Wednesday
Posted in Newsroom, The Times, columnists, newspaper on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Huge take off in Telegraph blogging
Posted in Ray Hartley, Telegraph, The Times, blog, moral, newspaper on May 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Britain’s Telegraph newspaper has started offering blogging. On the first day, 500 bloggers took up the offer … Take a look at the registration gateway page and the terms and conditions, which include:
5.1.5. you warrant that the material you submit is not: obscene, threatening, menacing, offensive, defamatory, abusive, likely to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless [...]
The hub team at the Times
Posted in Newsroom, Ray Hartley, The Times, newspaper on May 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I can finally introduce to you our editorial team:
Me = Editor
Moses Mudzwiti = Deputy Editor
Marvin Meintjies = News Editor
Carly Ritz = Multimedia Editor
Robin Comley = Pictures Editor
Archie Henderson = Sports Editor
Aspasia Karras = Features Editor
Xolani Xundu = Politics Editor
Colin Daniels = Internet Strategy Manager
Tidi Benbenisti = Diary Manager
Jackie May = Foreign/Syndication Editor
John Tsatsi = Design [...]
The Business End
Posted in The Times, advertising, newspaper on May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
IMG_1727, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
The vibe in the advertising sales department is incredible. Sales people are wearing The Times T-shirts and there are red and white balloons everywhere. More importantly, the first advertising clients are being signed up. We are going to start looking at some dummy pages tommorrow and working out how our great [...]
A newspaper by bloggers
Posted in The Times, blog, newspaper, old media on May 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The old/new media thing has taken a new twist in Boston where a newspaper has started publishing blog posts, reports the New York Times. Quote:
Last week, editors began culling posts and running excerpts next to articles from reporters and newswires. The blog items, which appear in gray boxes, are still relatively few, but Mr. Wilpers [...]
Lessons from the Bullard fracas
Posted in Amatomu, David Bullard, The Times, Zimbabwe, blog, newspaper, old media on May 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Something remarkable happened yesterday. The power of the synergy between print and web publishing was revealed as bloggers climbed into (or defended with varying degrees of conviction) David Bullard’s somewhat over-the-top column on blogging in the Sunday Times. (See the Amatomu stats here)
What yesterday showed was that the two mediums are greater than the sum of their parts, the [...]
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