Tech Tools Day 2: Building Geo Coded Maps

Mobile technologies are going to be key to news and information going forward, especially things like geo-tagging and location-based services. With GPS and data phones becoming more common, this is going to be a big sea change in the near future. So I was…

NYTIMES — Op-Ed Contributor: You Can’t Sell News by the Slice

You Can’t Sell News by the Slice

NYTIMES.com

By MICHAEL KINSLEY

Published: February 9, 2009

Excitement building

We are three days out from our redesigned/reformatted paper hitting the streets.

A lot of people here are running on adrenaline and caffeine. I think we all got a good surge this morning when we were finally able to hold some test papers in our hands — fresh off the…

Press time

The preprint sections of the redesigned Reading Eagle have rolled off the new press. It’s almost 8 p.m. and we still have three live…

Ink on paper

There was no loud cheer or celebration — just big smiles early this morning when the ink hit the paper for the three live sections of the redesigned Reading Eagle. One of those grinning was Design Editor Grant Mahon, above.

Two standing sections — Money and Life — and a special section commemorating the…

Reasons to be optimistic about journalism in 2009

Greetings, everyone!

I’m back after a bit of a hiatus for personal and professional reasons. But today marks my return to regular blogging here. And I wanted to start by posting on a topic that I promised to address…

Grim times for newspapers call for bigger changes