Looking to the future for journalism
I am in Washington DC at the moment en route from Dublin to Denver. I have done a little work here, but mostly preparation for the week ahead in Denver.
Keep an eye out for coverage from the Democratic and Republican Party conventions from Monday on RTE.ie/news.
Looking forward to a challenging week!
From the Newspaper Society
The INM newspaper launched its redesigned website a month ago and it has seen a 29% jump week on week in page impressions – pretty impressive!
It’s a nice site, a huge improvement on the old one and much more user friendly. It does follow the INM formula pretty much to the letter though.
The first of the Huffington Post’s local news sites launched today. The Chicago site is the first step in a broader strategy to set up a network of local news aggregation sites across the US.
It will be interesting to watch this site over the coming months.
More from Jemima Kiss here
Newspaper publisher Gannett has confirmed today that it is cutting 1000 jobs.
According to WSJ.com the group will lay off 600 newspaper staffers and the remaining 400 will come through retirements and positions being left vacant.
The cuts will be made across 84 of the 85 daily newspapers (but not at USA Today which is in a separate division to the other daily papers) 100 websites and hundreds of non-daily papers.
Jim Hopkins over at Gannett Blog says staff were notified yesterday and today the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky was the first to announce lay offs.
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