APME Update
June 9, 2006
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This week: Award winning blogs ... Hold nothing back ... Change is here ... Are you an Alexaholic? ... In case you missed it.

AWARD-WINNING BLOGS: A CLOSER LOOK
Weblogs are gaining popularity and prestige at newspapers nationwide. Mark Briggs of the (Tacoma) News Tribune takes a look at some recent award winners, including Crime Scene KC, Today in the Sky, MeMo and Seahawks Insider.

HOLD NOTHING BACK
Charlie Tillinghast, president and publisher of MSNBC.com, has a pointed five-point prescription for newspapers looking to compete in the digital world. One includes syndicating local content.

CHANGE IS HERE
Recent newsroom advice comes in different forms – with different outlooks – this month. Venerable new media analyst Steve Outing writes an E&P online column "How to Get Ahead in the New Media Newsroom, Circa 2006" where he compares today's multidimensional demands at newspapers to news service duties. He also uses the Palm Beach Post as a specific example where reporters, columnists and editors juggle the demands of feeding many beasts: print, web, blogs, TV, etc.

Meanwhile, Rachel Smolkin is a little more frank with a 6,000-word essay that visits several properties for signs of change. In "Adapt or Die," Smolkin, managing editor for American Journalism Review, starts with an appropriate analogy, that "for years, newspapers have treated innovation like a trip to the dentist – a torture to be endured, not encouraged." She goes on to cite several success stories, but comes to the conclusion that newspapers are still "trying to figure out exactly what their mission is in this audience-driven, multiplatform era."

ARE YOU AN ALEXAHOLIC?
Want to know how your web site stacks up with the competition in terms of popularity? A new website allows you to track up to five web sites simultaneously.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Quick links to an online chat with the AME-continuous news at The Washington Post, a different take on personalized news sites and a new award for digital newsgathering.

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