Social advice for newspapers

By Steve Outing on Apr 24, 2006 in Media

My monthly column for Editor & Publisher Online has been published: “Home, Home on the Web: Giving the Audience Some ‘Space’ of Their Own.” Here’s the description: “Millions of people — yes, more of them young than old — are creating their own personal spaces online at these huge websites, sharing their lives, often in intimate detail, with the world. Yet with rare exceptions, the newspaper industry is avoiding this personal-page and social-networking trend.”

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  1. On Apr 25, 2006, Neil DoddsNo Gravatar said:

    Hi Steve,

    There were plans last month to offer Sun readers MySpace pages under a “MySun” banner. Apparently The TImes (UK) was considered initially but The Sun’s profile was thought to fit MySpace better.

    http://www.correspondent.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/101/A_Place_In_MySun.html

    Regards

    Neil.

  2. On Apr 25, 2006, Neil DoddsNo Gravatar said:

    Oh and I should add, here is a selection of readers blogs from France’s newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur: It’s interesting how they’ve incorporated readers blogs into their site alongside their journalists’ work:

    http://blogs.nouvelobs.com/index_rub.php

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