It's Not Too Late

Word is that the "legacy newsroom" is living on borrowed time. Hooey. Papers can survive, even thrive, if they dare to be far more entertaining, informative and reader-friendly. The pages listed below make the basic case. So read them first. The center column shares a slew of specific ideas. As the main blog says, steal my ideas, please.

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Rethinking Pg. 1

Here's a front page full of radical ideas.
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New Section Proposal

And here's a mockup of for a radically different section.
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Drama Lessons Taken From TV

Steve Lovelady, an ex-Inquirer editor, once made the memorable remark that newspaper’s biggest threat wasn’t TV news, but TV dramas like L.A. Law. The ability of TV to captivate  is a big reason Americans have less time to read. So meet the challenge by embracing dramatic storytelling. Instead of inching multiple crime stories along day by day, adding […]

Posted: January 1st, 2007 under Drama & Suspense, TV-related ideas, Radio-related ideas, Book-related ideas.
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A Gossip Column About Our Fictional Celebrities

Gossip columns are popular, and so are TV series. Doesn’t it seem sometimes that people are almost as interested in TV characters as they are in real people? Aha! Do a newspaper column called “Character References” that’s “gossip” about what happened last night on TV. Write it up in chatty mock-shock-schlocky style. Boldface the unreal […]

Posted: November 13th, 2006 under TV-related ideas, Book-related ideas, Humor & fun.
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