NewspaperTeam

Meeting 1 (1/5/07)

• paper --> web movement issue
  • cannibalization issue
• newspapers are getting thicker
• blogger concept in paper medium?
• donnelly customized newspaper
• bloggers in web versions of newspapers
• blog vs newspaper
  • = unedited vs edited
  • = unvetted vs vetted
• bring hyper-democratic concepts from web world into paper world
  • influenced by identity of the paper's brand
• can editors vet blogs?
• increase in blogs and links to blogs in
• breaking stories
• "trusted aggregator"
• how to bring content together
• what type of newspapers are we talking about?

agreed to do:

• take slide presented today
• everybody write 2 lines on each point
• by 5pm May 8th