David Black

“In their quest to better engage with readers, publishers of regional newspapers are exploiting their online potential.”

“One of its key components will be an intelligent, malleable technology platform for organizing news from thousands of content-creators and delivering it to publishers as web experiences”

“It’s all about navigation — helping your readers find the content that they want… It could be from anywhere — and by linking to it, you help to create a bond of trust with your audience, as they come to believe that you will have the best content

“So the online news teams have now taken up residence in the newly configured BBC Multimedia Newsroom, next to their TV and radio counterparts, and the newsgathering teams who deploy the BBC’s news reporters.”

Jeff Jarvis interviews Peter Horrocks about the BBC’s new newsroom

“Think small and scattered rather than vast and co-ordinated? It’s the kind of twist you might expect from a revolution that never stops spinning in a world where the individual with phone and laptop rules OK.”

“Radar, as the name would suggest, organizes the news in dynamic, concentric circles around you. First it looks for news immediately around you, within 1000 feet. Then it searches for stories in your neighborhood. Then, in your city…”

“Radar lets you keep track of what’s happening around you right now simply and easily. “

“When I woke up Wednesday morning in sunny Las Vegas, I knew there was a pretty good chance there would be a story in the Wall Street Journal about our team’s work on LoudounExtra.com.”

“Northcliffe Media has today rolled out ten revamped websites, signaling the start of a major phase of redevelopment across its regional news network.”

“Some 44% of people who saw a product or service advertised in a newspaper in the past month researched it – and two-thirds (67%) of that group went online to find more information, according to a Google-commissioned survey from Clark, Martire & Bartolome

“Putting all of this stuff in widgets all over the page is ugly, distracting, slows page loads, and creates a bunch of other problems.. That’s why I believe we need to move beyond widgets to a more integrated model of mashing up web services.”

“Yesterday Alison Gow, deputy editor of the Liverpool Daily Post (LDP), gave a presentation to the Digital Editors’ Network with an assessment of the LDP’s ‘liveblogging the newsroom’ day.”