This is the way to promote your content and columnists.
The Independent front page promotes today its Travel Editor, Simon Calder.
Caos in Heatrow.
More papers sold, for sure.
We predicted it.
Hachette Filipacchi’s Shock announced today is closing, with this next and final issue being February, on newsstands Dec. 26, 2006.
Like Ellegirl and TeenPeople before it, it will try to live on on the web at ShockU.com.
“After six months in the marketplace, Shock’s performance at newsstands has not produced trends that indicate that we will get the returns that we are looking for,” said Hachette president and CEO Jack Kliger in a statement released by the company today.
“On the other hand, the web site has shown real energy and connection with this young demographic and the 41 page-views-per-visitor-session is one of the highest for web sites at Hachette.”
No way!
It is, and it will be, a total failure, on and off line.
Don´t be mistaken.
It´s pure garbage.
Not journalism.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has today a very strong front page.
But the casino´s issue is not just a big infographic.
Go here and you will see the extensive, intensive and excellent coverage.
Only great newspapers and good newsrooms can do this.
Thanks to David Sullivan, Kevin Burkett, and Stan Wischnowski
My first post about new media jobs was about an Information Architect for The Wall Street Journal.
Well, The New York Times wants another one.
Description: Information Architect
Reports to: Director, Information Architecture
Responsibilities:
• Research and development of navigation infrastructure and information retrieval projects for NYTimes.com
• Design of organization, labeling, navigation, and indexing systems to support both browsing and searching (including the development and management of a controlled vocabularies and thesauri)
• Develop detailed wireframes that incorporate the technical, editorial, and usability aspects of web design projects
• Research new products and explore technologies that complement the abilities of humans to add value to information
• Support Director of Information Architecture on a variety of additional projects
Required Qualifications:
• Creativity, conscientiousness, meticulous attention to detail, and entrepreneurship
• Excellent project management, communication and problem-solving skills
• Deep understanding of information retrieval and content management technology
• Schooled in the techniques and technologies of information representation, web site usability and design, metadata (data modeling, XML)
• Analytical skills, including Excel modeling
• Familiarity with internet business models
• Experience working with technical staff and appreciation of the engineering process
• Drive to develop new skills
This is the new Telegraph PM, and it is present as:
A 10-page, A4 size, multimedia newspaper with text, picture galleries, audio and video plus the classic Matt cartoon.
Published since September 11, 2006, every weekday at 4pm and 5.30pm with the latest news, sport and business headlines.
Read it on screen or print it out to read on the way home.
You can download it as one complete package – including a crossword, sudoku, killer sudoku and codewords, plus TV listings and critics’ choices – or select just the sections you want.
You can:
Download all of today’s Telegraph pm.
Download News section only (includes puzzles and TV)
Download Sport section only.
Download Business section only.
And you can click for an automatic Outlook reminder to be sent to your computer at 4pm each day.
Once clicked you have the option to open and run it straight away or to save and run it later.
You can get it here.
Our UK Director, Juan Senor, says:
“This is a superb effort to convert a print title into a truly multimedia package.
This is the fruit of the labour of the innovative newsroom of the Daily Telegraph which is sending multimedia content to its readers via 3 touch-points every day.
Perhaps the first quality truly multimedia newspaper.
An effort to be applauded.
It is still difficult to navigate and the starting point still is the feel and look of the printed product…but a commendable effort and the future of newspapers.”
Well, you know my opinion about these PDF papers.
I don´t see many thousands of people printing copies.
But I see more and more people checking o getting the 4pm and 5:30pm updates, specially some of the multi-media options.
And more than that, I don´t think that the presentation of online news or features has to replicate the traditional model of the printed pages.
Many years ago the Art Director of The Washington Post, Michael Keegan, presented in a seminar at the American Press Institute (API) a beautiful model for an e-newspaper in a continuous piece of paper that could be folded with a very attractive design.
Today this great idea looks a very old fashion one.
Let´s print better, and let´s not pretend that paper is the only way to deliver the news.
The Daily Telegraph is leading in Europe a great revolution.
Its newsroom is becoming a real battlefield to test our multi-media “information engine” concept.
Yes, let´s produce and sell compelling multi-media products.
This is the challenge.
Not to save the print newspaper.
Including the ones printed in your home or office.
The Seattle Times had yesterday this “Public Service” front page.
Public service is what newspapers do, or must do.
Front pages like this one are a reminder about our basic job.
Readers know that.
And that´s the reason that they liked it.
We too.
See in detail the top of the page.
And read more about the page in this Al Tompkins column.
A nasty review?
Oh, well, here there is an easy and safe one.
You drop a bomb and after that you say to the readers: Good.
The Russian Tea Room restaurant in New York?
A Good restaurant.
Because, you know, in order to be culinary correct, in The New York Times one star means Good.
Good?
Read these “good” comments from the review:
“Some dishes seem not to have any firmer tether to Russia than the restaurant’s ersatz Chagall and Kandinsky paintings and golden firebirds have to conventional elegance. Other dishes blur the boundaries between Russia, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and even the Far East.”
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“More than a few dishes weren’t so successful.
Tea-smoked sturgeon had an acrid aftertaste.
The chicken Kiev, unexpectedly straightforward, did a rubbery impersonation of airline food, and I mean coach.
There are nearly a dozen kinds of caviar — foreign, domestic, wild, farmed — and several of the ones I tried had an excessively pasty texture, lacking any bouncy pop.
The kitchen was also bedeviled by inconsistency.
Buckwheat blini that were golden and fluffy one visit were charred and leaden the next.”
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“But this restaurant’s real shortcoming is its service, unforgivably poor in the context of dinner entrees that frequently exceed $40, appetizers that infrequently fall below $18 and 30-gram servings of caviar that cost as much as $300.”
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“Outdated menus with erroneous information were put on the table.
Drinks and food were ludicrously slow to arrive.
Servers responded dismissively to complaints, one of them telling us that we shouldn’t bother him with questions about a fugitive bottle of wine.
It was, he shrugged, the sommelier’s problem.
And what a problem.
Although we had ordered a 1998 French Burgundy for $84, we got a 2001.
We flagged the discrepancy, and for the next 15 minutes, as we ate our appetizers and thirsted for pinot noir, both the wine and sommelier were on the lam.
When he showed up, he presented us with a similar 1998 — the listed one was unavailable — for $20 more. He paused, seemingly waiting for us to agree to spend that.
Then, in the manner of a car salesman, he said: “I’ll make you a deal. We’ll call it an even $90.
He later dropped the price to $84, the right end to a wrong situation that typified the restaurant’s clumsiness.”
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“And at times the experience indeed feels like a gift. The desserts fulfill their sweet obligations, though apart from a pair of blintzes, they’re geographically unbound.”
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“In terms of food and all else, the Russian Tea Room doesn’t add up neatly or quite make sense.”
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As I said, The New York Times ranks the restaurants with stars that really mean:
(None) Poor to satisfactory (means really bad)
* Good (means bad)
** Very good (means mediocre)
*** Excellent (means good)
**** Extraordinary (means very good)
If this is a “Good” restaurant, imagine what a “poor” one must be.
(Picture by Joe Fornabaio)
Our local free paper is doing very, very well.
It´s free but it is chic.
Like today´s cover, with a nice corner ad.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports:
Print reporters, editors, and photographers continue to make up the largest professional category, with 67 cases in 2006, but Internet journalists are a growing segment of the census and now constitute the second largest category, with 49 cases.
The number of imprisoned journalists whose work appeared primarily on the Web, via e-mail, or in another electronic form has increased each year since CPJ recorded the first jailed Internet writer in its 1997 census.
The 2006 figure is the highest number of Internet journalists CPJ has ever tallied in its annual survey.
The roster of jailed Internet journalists includes China’s “citizen” reporters, the independent Cuban writers who file reports for overseas Web sites, and the U.S. video blogger Joshua Wolf who refused to hand over footage to a grand jury.
The Philadelphia Daily News has today, as almost everyday, the best front page of the quality popular tabloids in the USA.
And I do not say that because my wife, Deborah Withey, did the redesign of the former Knight Ridder paper.
But because it works after many years.
It was a great concept.
And still it is.
Fresh.
Bold.
Modern.
Stylish.
A front page that changes all the time.
Like the position of the logo.
What you have here is: visual-news-driven impact.
INNOVATION