[A little over one year ago, our friend Martin Langeveld made a series of predictions about what 2009 would bring for the news business — in particular the newspaper business. I even wrote about them at the time and offered up a few counter-predictions. Here's Martin's rundown of how he fared. Up next, we'll post [...]

You can’t really call it a blog post when the printout stretches to 33 single-spaced pages, but it’s highly recommended reading:   Steve Buttry, the “information content conductor” of Gazette Communications in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has published “A blueprint for the Complete Community Connection” as a nine-parter on his blog.  More conveniently, you can download [...]

One of the most popular hashtags on Twitter today is #iagaymarriage, which people are using to comment on this morning’s Iowa Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. That’s fairly standard for big, breaking news, but this isn’t: The hashtag was created by Iowa’s largest newspaper, The Des Moines Register.
In anticipation of the ruling, the Register’s [...]

Back in December, at my old blog, I posted a set of media predictions for 2009, including:  “Some innovative new approaches to journalism will emanate from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.”
Around that time came the unveiling of Newsmixer, a project by Medill School of Journalism students working in collaboration with the Cedar Rapids Gazette.  Newsmixer, which has [...]