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“People are sharing their experiences of financial hardship via a new user-generated content initiative from the New York Times. Picturing the Recession asks readers to submit photos which capture the signs of economic troubles in their homes, neighbourhoods and towns.”

“As newspapers shed copy editors and post more and more unedited stories online, what’s the impact on their content?”

“If a website’s editorial mission focuses on building community, as I’ve argued, so should its advertising sales strategy focus on community as well. Don’t fall into the trap of selling potential advertisers nothing more than numbers; don’t neglect to sell them on the opportunity to support the community that you are building.”

Robert Niles provides advice to community journalists looking to write content for online newspapers. “That’s a harsh realization for many journalists, who have worked intensely to cover their communities for years. But effort and will don’t deliver readers. Information that engages and rewards them does.”

David Chase, owner of Sunvalley Online provide a critique for newspapers going online only. “I’d like to welcome the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to the world of pureplay, online-only local Internet sites.”

“The internet is well suited to detect scandals that require lots of bloggers to spend a little bit of time searching for bits of incriminating evidence. But it’s no substitute for serious investigative reporting that requires weeks of intelligent inquiry to get to the heart of the problem. Without Woodwards and Bernsteins, there will be…

“Most newspaper websites are doing a bad design job in making their stories readable.”

“The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes included online-only news organizations “primarily dedicated to original news reporting and coverage of  ongoing stories” for the first time — and the Awards got 65 entries from 37 different online-only entities.   One primarily online organization, Politico, was a finalist — in Cartooning. The Awards cited Matt Wuerker of Politico for his engaging…

“[T]he journalistic future I think we’re about to embark upon: that of free-agent professionals who are medium agnostic and can produce text, audio and video for just about any kind of media outlet, including one they individually control. Think of it as blended reporting.?”