High Cost, Low Quality Plague Newspaper Video Efforts Last week's demise of 702.tv in Las Vegas generated a lot of discussion about the… October 19, 2009 Ken Sands
News Orgs Make Gradual Progress in Site Navigation, Use of Social Networks Ask any news Web site manager about their site's current design (and state of continual… October 15, 2009 Ken Sands
Vegas Newspaper Pulls Plug on 702.tv After Four Months In late June, Greenspun Interactive, the new media division of the company that publishes the… October 15, 2009 Ken Sands
How Integrated Web-Sharing Tools Can Enhance, or Hinder, a User’s Experience Sometimes relatively simple changes in site functionality make dramatic differences. Take, for instance, the Twitter-interface… October 12, 2009 Ken Sands
Amid Journalism Cutbacks, Concern about Democracy There continues to be a lot of concern about what happens in our democracy when… April 2, 2009 Ken Sands
Political Data-as-Journalism Projects from Slate, the St. Petersburg Times and CQ Members of the Interactive Newsroom Technologies group at The New York Times may be journalism's… January 15, 2009 Ken Sands
NYTimes.com, Spokesman.com Raise the Bar on Transparency, Again A couple of decades ago, in recognition of the value of openness, news organizations began… December 24, 2008 Ken Sands
Jarvis on the Death of Print: Gloating, or Practical? On Nov. 11 in Slate, author and journalist Ron Rosenbaum attacked maverick media futurist Jeff… November 14, 2008 Ken Sands
Election Coverage Tipping Point: Online/Mobile Now Leading? I'm fairly certain that newspapers all over America (and perhaps the world) increased their press… November 6, 2008 Ken Sands
Elections & NYTimes.com: Feelings Count We've all been inundated with election polls, electoral scenario maps and enough punditry to float… November 4, 2008 Ken Sands
Bracketing the News with Games Many media organizations are developing strategies for "serious games". For example, bracketology (the process of… May 5, 2008 Ken Sands
What Does a ‘Data Delivery Editor’ Do? Apparently there are a lot of black bear sightings in Virginia. If you live in… October 29, 2007 Ken Sands
Who will be in charge of future converged newsrooms? This isn't news, but in case you missed the memo, Bill Keller and Martin Nisenholtz… August 15, 2005 Ken Sands
Newspaper Provides Online Newscast Wilmington is close enough to Philadelphia (and even Baltimore) that it doesn't have its own… October 18, 2004 Ken Sands
Bakersfield’s Election Experiment Newspaper/TV convergence experiments often take place in markets that are big enough to have savvy… September 22, 2004 Ken Sands