Save the Media: Imagining a ‘hyperinterest’ approach to online news
June 2nd, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Newspapers, Online Journalism
Gina Chen suggests that newspapers embrace two ideas: the mass audience is dead; and the product of newspaper websites is not news.
“Imagine if a newspaper’s web site didn’t look like a news web site at all. Instead, when you entered the site, you faced a question: What do you want to do? (I’m picturing it almost like Facebook’s ‘What’s on Your Mind?’)”
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