The Wisconsin State Journal now allows readers to vote a story a day onto the front page. That’s a nice start, good symbolism. The real win will be when papers get their publics to vote on what stories they’re not covering that they should be.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 at 7:08 am and was tagged newnews, newspapers.
Newspapers, by their nature, already have dated material. Now they somehow think putting material on the front page that has been around longer, having the tires kicked by readers, is a good idea?
The Greensboro News-Record is innovating in the reader-dialog arena. E.g., you can post your own article, and easily dialog with the editors via their blogs or email. They attempted a feature allowing readers to comment on each article – that has been postponed “until we can put additional safeguards in place”.
“Newspapers, by their nature, already have dated material. Now they somehow think putting material on the front page that has been around longer, having the tires kicked by readers, is a good idea? ”
[...] On the last On the Media, Brooke Gladstone talked to Ellen Foley, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, about their idea of having readers pick one story that should go on the front page from among a few the editors propose. Between 70 and 200 readers take them up on that offer. This from the transcript: BROOKE GLADSTONE: Jeff Jarvis, whose blog is called buzzmachine.com, wrote that, quote, “The real win will be when papers get their publics to vote on what stories they’re not covering that they should be.” [...]
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Mrs Cook has been chastising me for
my lack of post activity over the last couple of weeks. Guilty…
Newspapers, by their nature, already have dated material. Now they somehow think putting material on the front page that has been around longer, having the tires kicked by readers, is a good idea?
The Greensboro News-Record is innovating in the reader-dialog arena. E.g., you can post your own article, and easily dialog with the editors via their blogs or email. They attempted a feature allowing readers to comment on each article – that has been postponed “until we can put additional safeguards in place”.
“Newspapers, by their nature, already have dated material. Now they somehow think putting material on the front page that has been around longer, having the tires kicked by readers, is a good idea? ”
Notice, It’a better than before.
[...] On the last On the Media, Brooke Gladstone talked to Ellen Foley, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, about their idea of having readers pick one story that should go on the front page from among a few the editors propose. Between 70 and 200 readers take them up on that offer. This from the transcript: BROOKE GLADSTONE: Jeff Jarvis, whose blog is called buzzmachine.com, wrote that, quote, “The real win will be when papers get their publics to vote on what stories they’re not covering that they should be.” [...]