Posts Tagged ‘Newspapers’

Gordon Prouty, the advertising director of the San Francisco Business Times has been named publisher of the Puget Sound Business Journal. He starts in Seattle on July 5, 2011. Prouty replaces PSBJ publisher Emory Thomas, who was recently named chief content officer of the entire Business Journal network. For more info on Prouty visit the [...]

I recently met up with Daryl Chen, news editor of Parade Magazine who gave me some tips for placing a story in one of the most read news magazines in the country. Currently, more than 32 million people have a chance to read a story that is found within Parade. They reach 70 million Americans [...]

A recent post by Reflections of a Newsosaur suggests that Yahoo is about to unleash a program that will help it compete with local newspaper websites. Apparently, Yahoo is about to produce local websites filled with original content, which means it will pose a challenge to the thousands of newspaper publishers around the country. Newsosaur [...]

MSN is working on a project (http://local.msn.com/)to create hyperlocal news sites for cities around the country, similar to all those hyperlocal sites that are popping up around the world. Microsoft in December announced partnerships with MSN, Hearst, and NBC – this arrangement gives MSN the opportunity to display TV news on its local MSN subsites. [...]

The newspaper industry slide continues with not much bottom support. This graph, courtesy of Mint.com demonstrates the skid.

1 – If you lose your mobile phone, you’ll need a hard copy newspaper to read your news. 2 – Why purchase bubble wrap and air pockets when we still have newspapers? Use it to protect your dishware when you move from home to home. 3 – You can wrap gifts with it. 4 – [...]

SeattlePI.com looks for community bloggers

I recently found Spot, an open source project to “pioneer community reporting.” Basically, you can help fund stories. For example, Andrew Rosenblum wants $300 to write an article about Bay Area hospitals and how they are using music therapy to treat neurological diseases. He posted the idea in March 2009. As of June 20, 2009 [...]

• Microsoft debuts Vine in Seattle: Twitter + Facebook on steroids • “Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if you Don’t Want To” • Reader survey of stories upsets Chicago Tribune newsroom • Lance Armstrong’s Twitter misadventure has him sending personal e-mail address to 700K followers on Twitter • Former Seattle P-I [...]

Where do you find yourself going for online news in Seattle? Are you visiting SeattlePI.com?