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By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » How to listen

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » How to listen — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:55:16 +0000

[...] 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.” [...]

By: note

note — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:42:08 +0000

“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.

By: Steve D.

Steve D. — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:55:11 +0000

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”.

By: Frank M

Frank M — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:39:56 +0000

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?

By: Positive Impact

Positive Impact — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:34:14 +0000

Extentuating circumstances

Mrs Cook has been chastising me for
my lack of post activity over the last couple of weeks. Guilty…