Tag: Web Design

I grew up in a two-newspaper home – one in the morning, one in the afternoon. (I delivered that afternoon paper, too, and later was a stringer for them, then a staff photographer and, eventually, ran one of the photo departments for the chain that owned it.) Most purely afternoon papers tarted to get phased out years ago, but now...

This has very little to do with visual journalism, but it’s something I want on news sites – particularly my local news site – incredibly badly. Steve Yelvington, who works for Morris Digital Works, which owns Morris Communications which owns my local newspaper, writes about a simple Follow This Article button for news stories. Click it and you can get...

Or so insinuates Rupert Murdoch, who claims he’ll start blocking Google from indexing his paper’s web sites. Why? Because he thinks they’re stealing revenue – and we all know how much revenue there is to be stolen. (Hint: Not much.) He has a point – if all you’re going to read is the first few grafs of a story, and...