Author Archives: Danny Sanchez
About Danny Sanchez
Danny Sanchez is the Audience Development Manager at Tribune's Sun-Sentinel.com and OrlandoSentinel.com. Danny has been with Tribune since 2005 in a variety of editorial, digital and product development roles in Hartford, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale. He has also previously worked in the newsrooms of the Tampa Bay Times and The Miami Herald.Google News Drives $100 million in Revenue to Google, says VP
Fortune magazine reports that Google vice president Marissa Mayer publicly stated that Google News –an aggregator that contains no advertising– draws in approximately $100 million in revenue from paid searches that get funneled through the site. You can check Melbourne … Continue reading
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Google’s ‘Knol’ is Direct Challenge to Media Companies
Google today announced the launch of Knol, a Wikipedia-esque site that hosts articles from contributors. Google hopes the articles become among the most authoritative on the Web — which represents a direct challenge to media sites. In a June 2006 … Continue reading
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A Metaphor for News Site Navigation
I ran across this image on Smashing Magazine tonight. I think it eloquently describes one of the biggest challenges specific to news site design: What do you think? Is creating an effective way for users to find enormous amounts of … Continue reading
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Young Spokesman-Review Journos Publish Newsroom Reorganization Report
A group of eight young journalists at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. were asked to produce a report on how the newsroom can reorganize to improve efficiency. Nick Eaton, a sports producer in Spokane, and the team have published the … Continue reading
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Readership Institute Releases 2008 Readership Study
The Readership Institute has released its 2008 study on readership trends of 100 newspapers, which proclaims that “readers have not left the building.” The study (direct link to the PDF here), shows stability in many trends and some small readership … Continue reading
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Google Improves Indexing of Flash Content
Just catching up on my pile of RSS feeds after getting hitched and spotted an important item: Google has improved its ability to crawl Flash content. Google has historically had trouble “seeing” any Flash content (.SWF files). This means anything … Continue reading
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Registration for BlogOrlando is Open
Quick announcement: Registration for the previously mentioned BlogOrlando is now open! Registration for the Sept. 25-27 conference is free and open to anyone. Registration page is here. Registration was maxed out for last year’s conference, so act quickly. Yours truly … Continue reading
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BlogOrlando 2008 Dates Announced
It’s baaaaaaack! BlogOrlando, the awesome unconference on all things bloggy will be back this year Thursday, Sept. 25 to Saturday, Sept. 27. Last year, registration was maxed out with more than 300 attendees, many of which were journalists from Florida’s … Continue reading
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Google to Offer up Potential ComScore and Nielsen-killer
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will announce a new metrics tool to measure web site audience, a service that would make a major dent in current power players Nielsen and ComScore. [UPDATE: The New York Times Bits blog … Continue reading
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Save Newspapers! Top 5 MacGyver Uses for Old Newspapers
With so many of my journalism colleagues out there facing layoffs, I though this might be a good time to highlight the many understated uses for newspapers. In the spirit of the ever-resourceful Angus MacGyver, there’s much more to newspapers … Continue reading
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A Hilarius Ode two Copy-editors
An excerpt from Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten’s ode to copyeditors: “The inessentialness of copy editors is underscored by the advent of sophisticated spellchecking systems which have introduced a hole new level of error-free proofreading. No longer can we say … Continue reading
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Quick list of open online journalism jobs
After being inspired by Charles Apple’s list of open journalism jobs, my Sentinel colleague Steve Mullis (soon to be at MPR in Minneapolis) has posted a list of open online journalism jobs with links over at his blog. While some … Continue reading
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