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Editor and Publisher: WPNI head quits, Post takes greater control over web elements

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Caroline Little, the CEO of WashingtonPost Newsweek Interactive, has resigned from her post, the newspaper’s publisher has confirmed.

Rumours about here departure bound round the internet last week, till Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth confirmed the move in a memo to staff.

The memo praised Little’s 11 years at the company, but also suggested that the Post newspaper and web teams would move closer together as senior figures in the web team would now report directly to Weymouth.

“I am taking this opportunity to move washingtonpost.com and The Washington Post closer to a true Washington Post Media organisation – rather than a newspaper company and an Internet company,’ the publisher wrote in the memo.

‘To that end, Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com and Rob Curley, vice president of products, will report to me.

‘Goli Sheikholeslami, vice president of classifieds and local products, will report to Steve Hills, president and general manager of Washington Post Media.’

Washington Post Facebook app attracts 350,000 downloads

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Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com, discusses widgets, podcasts, vodcasts and live streaming in the interview with Beet.tv below.

Brady says the Post’s political application on Facebook, which has been downloaded around 350,000 times, was a simple and relatively inexpensive way of promoting the WaPo brand.

However, he says that when experimenting with any new distribution methods – whether widgets, audio or video – it’s crucial to get the editorial content right first, regardless of what technology is in place.

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LA Times website records 100 million page views in February

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Latimes.com recorded 101,364,530 page views last month, according to an email to staff from executive editor Meredith Artley – shown in full on Mediabistro.

And they’re not stopping there: Artley says plans are underway to redesign the site’s local section and add more blogs to its repertoire.

Her note also details traffic to the site’s blogs with February attracting a record 5,764,230 of page views to this area.

“[T]raffic is up across the board due to great efforts by the Web and print teams (a distinction that gets blurrier every day), and not just because of one news event or a few well-placed links from big traffic-driving sites like Drudge,” Artley writes.

Washington Post site attracts record traffic figures

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According to an internal note posted on Fishbowl DC, Washingtonpost.com broke its personal best for web traffic last month.

Political stories were particularly popular, writes Jim Brady, executive editor of the site, with traffic to politics articles almost doubling and a 60 per cent increase in unique users to this section.

Brady reports an increase in traffic across all sections – something he puts down in part to a big news month and a new design for the site’s story pages.

Editor’s Weblog: Review of Guardian Unlimited’s development in the build-up to integration

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Ian Katz, executive editor of The Guardian, Neil McIntosh, editorial head of development at Guardian Unlimited, and Tom Happold, network editor of Guardian Unlimited, discuss the ‘organic’ growth of the paper’s online strategy.

Miami Herald cancels editorial outsourcing

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US daily newspaper the Miami Herald has dropped plans to outsource part of its production operations to India.

Owners the McClatchy Company have backed down on the move to outsource the Herald’s regional Broward Neighbors section, because it would remove ‘news judgement’ from the process.

“We’ve decided this would not be an appropriate use of this service so it won’t be tested, nor will other newsroom and editing design like it,” a memo from Anders Gyllenhaal, Miami Herald executive editor, is reported as saying in a report on MiamiHerald.com.

“The more we looked at the prospects of editing and layout from outside the newsroom, the more it was clear these skills involving news judgment and experience are not likely to work well from afar.” The so-called no deposit bonus is a reward that you receive for a certain action in an online casino. When registering a free account in an online casino, you receive a certain amount of money or the number of free spins. To receive a no deposit bonus, you do not need to deposit real money! Read more here https://bestbonusmoney.com/non-gamstop-no-deposit-bonus . Free no deposit bonus non gamstop comes in many forms, so you can come across any of these types. Players need to know the different forms of no deposit not on gamstop bonus. This will help players make the right decision when choosing one of these bonuses.

According to the article, other outsourcing projects at the paper, including the production of some advertising sections and monitoring of website comments, will continue.

Popular in the US, but where are the UK widgets?

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While US newspaper websites appear to be going ‘widget’-crazy, there’s a distinct lack of the things this side of the pond.

The way the US sites are using these gadgets shows the breadth of news subjects they can be applied to:

These type of applications can sit on your desktop or feature on sites like Facebook, which now encourages outside software developers to design applications for its users. Answering this call, the Washington Post has developed political quiz application, The Compass, for use on the social networking site.

According to the AP article:

Jim Brady, the executive editor of WashingtonPost.com, says widgets can boost a newspaper’s brand online, refer new readers back to the site and perhaps generate revenues through sponsorship deals.

Sounds like a plan.

Yet on a quick perusal, there don’t seem to be any on the UK’s newspaper sites. Why not?

Has anyone spotted any, anywhere?