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Ann Arbor News going to mostly web

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by budcrew08, Jul 23, 2009.

  1. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Wasn't the print product supposed to start today?
    I'd love to know what that looked like, since there are like three new stories on the web...
     
  2. FuturaBold

    FuturaBold Member

    i believe the site is a blog, probably a themed WordPress site, made to look like a "real" Web site ... how can you not have main art somewhere as soon as you hit the sports page? ugg...
     
  3. Hank_Scorpio

    Hank_Scorpio Active Member

    It did start. Don't know what it looked like though.

    Read somewhere on aa.c that some people didn't get their paper delivered.

    If I get a chance tomorrow, I might drive out there to see if there's still a copy in a newsstand or store. I'd doubt they would pull the remaining copies off on Monday.
     
  4. crusoes

    crusoes Active Member

    Nothing on the Saturday Tigers game, which ended about 7:30 p.m.
     
  5. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Send me your copy when you're done.
     
  6. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    I heard they were eliminating Mlive for AA.
    Could you tell our photogs that?
    Certainly is interesting.
     
  7. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    what's interesting, at least to me, is that a print/web hybrid model might just in a relatively affluent, college town.
    I suspect lots of publishing companies will be watching the results.
    Is the print edition a free throw one or both days it comes out?
    And are they outsourcing the design? I didn't see any print designers on the staff box.
     
  8. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    I'd say the college paper has a better design than the local paper.

    http://www.michigandaily.com/

    Meanwhile a new JRC paper has moved in to Ann Arbor. They have weeklies all over Southeastern Michigan.

    http://www.a2journal.com/
     
  9. Herky_Jerky

    Herky_Jerky Member

    I just checked out the website, and I'll give them this much -- they've posted a shitload of content in the past few hours from the Big Ten media days.

    I realize none of the stories are very long, but it's still interesting the way they're delivering things.
     
  10. Hank_Scorpio

    Hank_Scorpio Active Member

    Jay, they do have designers, I believe.

    mustang, The last couple days there have been aa.c links on mlive. And I think Carty said earlier in the thread, that mlive was going to have an RSS feed for Michigan football.
     
  11. crusoes

    crusoes Active Member

    At least one designer from Jackson was putting the Sunday paper together.
     
  12. Brian Cook

    Brian Cook Member

    According to one of their tech people, it's Movable Type.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type
     
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