Catching Up with the Times
My good friend Bill Clough made this picture of what I'm guessing is a long-time newspaper reader catching up on the news with what looks like the Times-Picayune down in the Big Easy. (more of Bill's photos are here.
P^3 |
Newspapers, new media and other interesting stuff |
My good friend Bill Clough made this picture of what I'm guessing is a long-time newspaper reader catching up on the news with what looks like the Times-Picayune down in the Big Easy. (more of Bill's photos are here.
A Toronto Star press release allegedly edited by a Star editor upset about outsourcing union editing jobs. Parody? Perhaps so, maybe not, but I think you get the point.
My good friends over at Shorpy.com have this image of newsies (what they used to call the kids who peddled papers on the streets) from Boston, Massachusetts. October 1909. They look pretty chipper for being at work at 5 a.m. on a Sunday.
Guy in the Bowler hat must be a manager-type from the paper, but notice that some of the boys look to be about eight or nine and that one guy in the back right looks like he's pushing 20.
Kudos to the fellow wearing the bowtie! Any bets that the dog's name was Spot?
Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, whose photos of child labor were instrumental in getting child labor laws enacted in the U.S.
For one of Hines's icon non-child labor photographs, check out this.
Tip of the hat for the creative types in charge of the Macys account for linking Columbus Day with a newspaper sailor hat! But I’m thinking that the dog’s little hat is a Photoshop job. Making a newspaper sailor hat is one of my first newspaper memories. Doesn’t everyone learn how to do this in kindergarten? Do they still do this anymore? If you’ve forgotten how to fold a newspaper sailor hat, or never knew how, go here for a refresher. 
My good friends at the Statesman are running this little ditty on their boxes and of course it's caught the eye of a photog.
Well, yes, they do, although personally, I prefer to use one of the free newspapers (even though their boxes don't say, "Free newspapers make great FREE umbrellas") because, hey, it's FREE!
In this case, I think the Statesman is having a little fun at its own expense.. although I would have gone with "Computers don't make great umbrellas."
My friends at the Consumerist relays this tale of woe from a Washington Post subscriber. I'm sure that most newspapers have similar stories to tell, but with subscribers jumping ship in droves, you'd think that newspapers would be making customer service, as Ford used to say, Job Number One.
The Mint takes new look at the decline of the newspaper industry. No new news here, but the charts and graphs make it east to understand.
BTW Mint, hate that gray background. What's up with that?
The buzz just keeps on coming about the rumored tablet device from Apple. Today, Gizmodo is reporting that the NYTimes was approached by Apple. Wouldn't that be great!
Would the new hardware drive readers back to newspapers? I'm thinking that something slim, sexy, easy to use with fantastic capabilities would be great for the newspaper industry as a whole.
Except.
Except newspapers can not see tablets as "just another platform." Newspapers on a tablet (Apple or not) will need to be a cross between old-school print design and and a web page.
And by a "web page," I really mean, not a web page thats a). designed more with the advertiser in mind than the reader, and b). lots of text shoveled in from the print edition.
Please, please please let's not miss the boat on this one. We do not want to be another music industry -- where the medium has surpassed the message.
The Associate Press Stylebook is now in the App Store ($28.99) for your iPhone or iPod touch.
Take the AP Stylebook with you anywhere with this new easy-to-use application. This handy new app features searchable listings for the main, sports, business and punctuation sections, along with the ability to add your own custom entries as well as notes on AP listings.
No flashy graphics, cool animations or cool sounds, but it's a long-time indispensable tool for most Journalists.
Buy the 2009 version and get the 2010 version for FREE!
Can't afford the steep price? The AP Stylebook is already available in cheaper dead-tree versions and as a web-based (annual subscription) version.
“Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”
--Groucho Marx
