All entries tagged: slideshows

Breaking news online: How two Pulitzer finalists used the web

As we noted yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news went to The New York Times for its coverage of the Eliot Spitzer scandal. But since breaking news is perhaps the one area where Internet journalism most outshines print, we wanted to take a look at the two other finalists in the category and tease [...]

Hitting the right note when news sites mix music and journalism

If you check out the videos and slideshows at most major newspaper websites, you’ll find fascinating stories, probing interviews, and even reporters who don’t sound half-bad narrating an audio script. What you won’t find much of is music.
Whether for ethical concerns or a lack of experience in the medium, newspapers have generally shied away from [...]

6 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | March 30, 2009 | 9:00 am

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NYT sees bigger pageview numbers post-inauguration; credit slideshows

Tuesday was a big day for pageviews on The New York Times website, of course. But get this: Wednesday was even bigger.
Jonathan Landman, deputy managing editor for digital journalism at the Times, offered that intriguing tidbit in a memo to staff this morning. He wrote:
Based on past experience, we expected less traffic the day after [...]

6 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | January 23, 2009 | 4:54 pm

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