Idea Lab

All the Summaries Fit to Print

by Gail Robinson
2009 Knight News Challenge Winner

As so many people who blog here have observed, newspapers face a quandary as they struggle to attract and keep readers to their print editions as well as their Web sites. They want to win customers at the same time they are giving those customers less for their money. One way to get around that is to give people the same or less and make it look like more. Is that the idea behind the New York Times redesign revealed this week? For those of you who haven't seen it, the Times seems to have exported a Web idea --...

• March 28, 2008
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A Fresh Start

by Chris O’Brien
2007 Knight News Challenge Winner

I could begin by reciting in mind-numbing detail my experience running The Next Newsroom Project. There have frustrations (many); there have been moments of despair (a few); there has been progress (some); there have been unexpected discoveries (lots). But this blog is just getting started, and there will be plenty of time for those stories. For the moment, you can visit our project site for the skinny. Instead, I'd like my first post here to sound a note that's far more hopeful, if not exactly profound: I feel optimistic about the future. And that, more than anything, is the most...

• October 14, 2007
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