Comments on: Q&A: Monica Guzman discusses the new, online-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer

By: Wednesday March 18 « Mediaweek Podcast

Wednesday March 18 « Mediaweek Podcast — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:38:36 +0000

[...] The Seattle Post-Intelligencer announced yesterday that it was ceasing production of the print edition, but that it was also forming a new team to run an online-only version of the P-I, reports BeatBlogging.org.It will be a new site, with a new vision. About 20 editorial employees and 20 advertising employees will run the new operation. They will attempt to remake what the P-I is:We’re going to break a lot of rules that newspaper websites stick to, and we are looking everywhere for efficiencies. We don’t feel like we have to cover everything ourselves. We’ll partner for some content; we won’t duplicate what the wire is reporting unless we have something unique to offer; we’ll continue to showcase the great content from our 150 or so reader bloggers and we’ll link offsite to content partners and competitors to create the best mix of news on our front page.[Read the original] [...]

By: lessons from Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Save the Media

lessons from Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Save the Media — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:05:54 +0000

[...] has an informative interview with Monica Guzman, a P-I blogger who is staying on. (Ink-Drained Kvetch also weighs in on some insightful commentary [...]

By: YellerDog

YellerDog — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:17:24 +0000

The first thing they need is a have a good site designer to do a major unclutter job.. Way to much information in too small a space. Too many links in tiny font sizes. You can still make a site look similar to a newspaper the way HuffPo does. A site needs to be laid out so you can intuitively know what’s going on without sorting through a lot of fine print. There are of course many ways to do it. The “West Seattle Blog” is a very simple site that does a good job. I’m sure the P-I needs more than that but they have to get to web 2.0 basics. A newspaper has a certain elegance of design that took hundreds of years to perfect. Just throwing a lot of stuff on a web page doesn’t work any more than it would have on a printed page. Lets start with a “Front Page” to begin with and well defined section tabs rather than trying to put links to everything on the Home Page. Most people understand how to read a newspaper and will get the same concept on line. This is exactly why I was still willing to pay for the paper rather than get the information for free on the web. The P-I paper itself went through several re-designs over the years. Create a nice clean site the evokes the PI brand and user-ship will go way up.

By: pat

pat — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:09:19 +0000

@rjh,

Journalism is changing, and Monica is helping to show us how it can change for the better.

She mixes in original reporting with link journalism and community building. All three of those are vital pillars in the future of journalism.

If you think just producing content is enough to succeed on your Web, you’re read wrong. The Web is a two-medium, and people want more than someone talking or writing at them.

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » March 18, 2009: Alas, no laugh track

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:21:59 +0000

[...] Post intelligencer staffers react to the paper’s shuttering. Meanwhile, Patrick Thornton talks to P-I blogger Monica Guzman about the new online version of the paper, and Jack Shafer, Jeff [...]

By: Denver and Seattle: Let the Experiments Begin « J-School: Educating Independent Journalists

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:08:35 +0000

[...] In Seattle, what will the relationship between aggregation and reporting be? Who will they link to, and how? [...]

By: Anthony Salveggi

Anthony Salveggi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:04:05 +0000

@rjh — There’s a reason why Monica is one of Beatblogging’s favorite bloggers — she’s able to establish a conversational tone that engages local readers with issues or stories they would care about. True, she will have less P-I content to link to, but that will hopefully lead to a greater engagement with the local community and original reporting. And if more readers can offer their knowledge, opinions and concerns, that can indeed lead to better journalism.

By: Monica Guzman

Monica Guzman — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:28:19 +0000

rjh – “Is this the future of journalism?”

The future of journalism is what we make it. What I do, which includes original reporting but is also what you say — gathering, moderating and analyzing conversation — can be a complement to what journalists have traditionally done, depending on their beats and the time they can dedicate to talking to readers. It can’t be a substitute.

By: Metaprinter

Metaprinter — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:18:23 +0000

Steve Greenberg’s Farewell to The Seattle P-I…

Editorial cartoonist and graphic artist Steve Greenberg says goodbye to the Seattle Post Intelligencer, a newspaper he called home for 14 years.
Hearst has pulled the plug on the paper, which had a circulation of about 200,000 and was the biggest morni…

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:59:16 +0000

Who, currently, duplicates wire copy unless they have something new to add? That’s not “breaking” a newspaper rule and it’s certainly not innovation.