By Kevin Roderick
Guess they mean it. Training classes begin Feb. 12 for Los Angeles Times editors to learn how to post to the website — and in some cases to just learn what is on the site. Innovation editor Russ Stanton's memo also announces a moratorium on new blogs and includes an update on staffing and other issues.
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The Times home page reminded me of America Online, lots of information to go through before finding what you really want. I did not last long with AOL, since all I really wanted was Internet access, not bulletin boards and a heavy dose of advertising.
Tonight as I scrolled down the Times home page I was pleased to see the blogs listed in the second column, with a link to all the blogs the newspaper offers online. I’m no expert at navigating the web, but I do have two decades experience online. As I complained last week of not being able to locate the Steve Lopez Blog (Bottleneck), what are the new Internet users experiencing, besides frustration?
As the Times online edition evolves to a place users find easy to navigate, without popup advertising, many will select this as their homepage when they log onto the Internet.
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Items of local interest Opinion LA
Rootkits Be Gone Bit Player
Talking With: Ned Colletti, Part II Blue Notes
Learning more about the Expo Line Bottleneck Blog
Ears Wide Open: Sky Parade and the Minor Canon Buzz Bands
One less rose on KTLA's parade float Channel Island
Midterm grades are in Cliptomaniac
Finally! Grab Oscar by the throat! (You know you want to) Gold Derby
"Pan" Dolce The Kinseygram
KCAL Feed Game Thread - Lakers vs. Knicks Lakers Blog
A Gambling Budget for Mr. Celine Dion The Moveable Buffet
shopping in a small world Notes from the Front Line
All-Star Weekend Groupie Contest Overtime
Beware The Flying Men Political Muscle
Let them eat ... bread! Postcards From Paris
They came...to vent. School Me
Andre Leon Talley: Big Man on Carpet Styles and Scenes
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The blogs links can be viewed by clicking here, or scroll down and you can access all the Times blogs from here.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:13 AM
Subject: New Integrated Approach to Content and News Gathering
Folks,
We're announcing organizational changes today that will help move us toward our vision of a true multimedia enterprise - delivering news and information across channels, all through the day, to meet the evolving needs of readers, users, and advertisers. We report on the changing media world everyday, and we need to change what and how we do what we do accordingly, and dramatically. Our colleagues on the Spring Street Project have underscored many of these needs, and their recommendations, together with the work of our colleagues at latimes.com, are the foundation of the moves we are making today.
Key points:
- Accelerate our growth on the Web by allocating more resources, and speeding product development, to improve the site and grow our online audience.
- Re-orient/re-tool the whole company to think and operate across multiple media.
- Develop online, but also change the print newspaper to better meet the changing needs of print users.
- In all media - focus, focus, focus on growing local audience.
To help drive these changes, we're making the following organizational moves:
Russ Stanton, Business Editor, has been named to the newly created position of Innovation Editor, reporting directly to Jim O'Shea. Russ's mission, working with editors and reporters across news and features, is nothing less than the transformation of our newsroom into a 24/7 operation that breaks news all the time online (and mobile, etc.) and publishes in print with the analysis, personality, and utility that only great writers and editors can provide.
Joel Sappell, Assistant Managing Editor for Multimedia and Editor of latimes.com, is going to return to editing some of our very important project work. Joel has been a pioneer in our online editorial efforts and contributed much to the growth we have seen at latimes.com in the last two years. We will now split Joel's responsibilities between Russ, as Innovation Editor, and a separate position of Editor of latimes.com. A search to fill this position is currently underway.
Rob Barrett, General Manager of latimes.com, has also been named a Vice President of the Los Angeles Times Media Group. Rob has been a key leader in the development of latimes.com and our related web businesses, and his new position reflects the importance of his company-wide role in transforming our business for the next generation of users and readers.
Russ and Rob will work closely together in guiding and integrating our efforts across print and online. The two will also lead a company-wide team to assess and recommend changes across all departments to ensure that we are, in fact, re-tooling our whole enterprise for the web and print.
Over the next several months, we will debut several new products under this new multimedia approach to content development, beginning this week with the launch of MyLatimes.com, and followed by the launch of new, integrated print and online products for Travel in February, Image/Fashion in March, and CalendarLive/CalendarWeekend in late spring.
We will be sharing more developments in the coming weeks, but at the core, we will need everyone's commitment to aggressively help shape the Los Angeles Times Media Group to become a truly multimedia company for the next generation. Please join me in congratulating and supporting Russ and Rob in their new roles.
David
Hat Tip to Tony Specht
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As I read the comments I came across a message from Shannon, she is also getting the online community together for a walk, but her walk is just over seven miles, so I told myself, let’s do it Ed.
Shannon’s walk will start at noon on Sunday February 11th at San Vicente and 6th Street, and end at The Daily Grill, 612 Flower Street. This is much more to my liking, and capability.
If you would be interested in either walk, follow the links and leave a message. I will be walking with Shannon's group on Sunday.
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Mercifully, Mr. McClatchy passed away in May and did not live to see the Sacramento-based company that bore his name disgrace his legacy by dumping its largest newspaper -- the most important one between Chicago and the West Coast, the one that serves 5 million Minnesotans and that can be a conscience, a scold, a cheerleader and an interpreter of life on the tundra.
Twin Cities will lose Star Tribune Foundation
The sale of the Star Tribune does not include the assets of its charitable foundation, which makes annual grants to community organizations. The McClatchy Co. will honor previous commitments, then transfer the assets of the Star Tribune Foundation to California.
Private equity firms buying newspapers
Sacramento, Calif.-based McClatchy Co. said Tuesday it would sell the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune to the New York private equity fund Avista Capital Partners for $530 million.
While private equity firms have invested billions in media companies, the Star Tribune is their first major daily-newspaper deal. How Avista manages the Star Tribune will be closely watched far beyond the newspaper's circulation area.
Extra! Extra! The skinny on David Geffen and the L.A. Times
Those who have dealt with Geffen while covering this business should find that obvious. Geffen is famously vindictive. One reporter now at the Times once called me in tears after an encounter with him on the phone (one truly has to be on the receiving end of his verbal savagery to appreciate it). And does anyone think he'll tolerate articles that annoy him or his friends? And he has lots of friends—from Hollywood to Washington, from Steven Spielberg to Hillary Clinton.
Advertising's future on the Internet
Marketers and ad agencies, long accustomed to interrupting a television show or preceding a movie with their message, are now trying to learn the new language of video advertising on the Internet.
More Companies Will Start Hiring Bloggers
As one of the few paid bloggers, Romenesko believes that more organizations and companies will start hiring people to blog. “I think it would be smart for firms to experiment with blogs on their intranets—offer relevant links to employees and the opportunity to comment on them.”
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The Washington Times gets picked up every day on C-SPAN, and by other major news organizations when it scores a big hit. But for a paper that only has a daily circulation of just 90,000 with inflated numbers, can that marvelous respectability continue?
I don't need to read 11 million Blogs
But while I hook up my laptop just about anywhere, IM my buddies and continually check my buzzing BlackBerry, one thing is missing: what I call Ed Sullivan moments.
Sun-Times to end TV Prevue in '07
The Chicago Sun-Times will cease publishing TV Prevue in the new year.
The decision comes as information on TV programming is becoming much more readily available in the daily newspaper, on the Internet and on the TV screen itself.
Private group buys Star Tribune
The McClatchy Co. capped a year of dramatic changes in the newspaper industry Tuesday by announcing the surprise sale of the Star Tribune, its largest newspaper, to a private investment group.
Google Set To Expand Newspaper Ad Program
For some of the nation's newspapers, Google's offer was too good to pass up. This fall, the search-engine company proposed to show how it could help newspapers sell print advertising to the hundreds of thousands of small merchants who buy Internet ads from Google. Advertisers would go online and bid on the excess ad inventory of daily newspapers, giving them a much-needed revenue boost.
Rick Wartzman leaving Times
The editor of West magazine told his staff today that he has given notice to become a senior fellow at New America Foundation. But he will continue to write for the LAT on a contract basis as a once-a-week business columnist.
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Speaking about WebPages, I was informed last week that certain blogs are despised by the Los Angeles Times, from a Tribune boss. Maybe this should be restated, there are certain blogs the Tribune doesn’t care for. When I asked what blogs the speaker was referring to, he stated that the number one blog they disliked most was Take Back the Times, number two LAObserved, and number three Save Our Trade.
I didn’t bother to ask where my blog stands in the ratings, so we’ll assume we are in fourth place, with Craig’s List fifth.
It’s easy to see Union Free is the favorite among management at the newspaper.
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