Papers and the Net: a poll

Well....?

 

I voted for C.

 

I also voted for C, but I don't think that poll offers all the choices. I think newspapers should exist in print, but offer something different in the online content. More photos, blogs, and other features would give the stories that are printed on the net a little more exposure, in my opinion.

 

Agree. It works at our paper.

 

At one stop, because the boss had so little regard for my beats and usually jobbed me on space, I would make sure to lay out the page on which my stuff would go and cut it to fit the page with a bug that said "for more on this story, go to www.podunkpressonline.com." Then I'd go over to the online cubicle and give them the full version to post. Just a thought...

 

I think that's how it should be, but since I'm not the boss at the web site for which I work, I don't get that choice. Instead, we do the exact opposite. We enhance stories with multimedia elements, but with the exception of the newspaper stories, we put shorter versions of the stories on the web. The newspaper only posts the version that was in the paper and no more.

They don't get many multimedia elements added to their stories, either. I'm not sure how management at the newspaper feels about convergence, but I know they're so swamped at night that adding those elements would probably cause a revolt in the newsroom. I don't know about news (because I always read their stories online) but I know the sports section regularly teases both the television station and newspaper with refers.