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 Jul 30 2010, 08:26 AM
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Website publication time change Published: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:35 PM CDT Out of respect to our print edition subscribers and their committment to using The News-Dispatch as their local news source, The News -Dispatch website will now be updated at 5 p.m. daily. While we value our online readers, it's only fair that our loyal, paying customers of The News-Dispatch print edition have top priority when it comes to reading the news. For subscription information, call 219-874-7211.  Necessary disclaimer: The views expressed in this post are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of Paxton Media Group.
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Jul 31 2010, 10:17 PM
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Let me just say this much... This will do nothing to change the News Dispatch's circulation numbers. Maybe I will be 100% wrong, but I think this move will serve to alienate more people from the news, than to bring them back to it locally.
I think the reason philosophically that this move isn't the right one is because it sends the wrong message. In this day and age, the most successful move you can make is to make yourself as active a part of the daily life of people as possible. Today that means being omnipresent. You should be able to track the News Dispatch and react to it anywhere, at anytime. You have to build that connection with people in the 21st century. If you can't be accessed as a seconds notice, you are dead. People want their news at their fingertips, they want to see people's reactions to a story, and they want to be able to leave their two cents, plus they want to be able to argue with the people they don't agree with. Now none of that is possible in Michigan City. Just reading the editors comments from the other day in the HA, they have not even made a real effort to create their own on-line community, instead taking the less effort road. They have no idea if a real on-line presence would work here or not, because they haven't done it. They have no idea if they could make money on-line or not, because they haven't put in the work to get people coming back to their website early and often. All they do it post stories, and that is it. As the kids say, that is a fail. |
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NDReporter Change to News-Dispatch web publication Jul 30 2010, 08:26 AM
Ang I understand the "why" part of the chang... Jul 30 2010, 08:41 AM
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I understand the "why" part of the chan... Jul 30 2010, 08:53 AM Ang Well, the papers are delivered in the morning. Pe... Jul 30 2010, 09:17 AM southsiderMMX This is the same thinking that made Bill Wirtz bla... Jul 30 2010, 09:27 AM NDReporter
This is the same thinking that made Bill Wirtz bl... Jul 30 2010, 09:56 AM southsiderMMX
As far as quantity and quality in the N-D and H-A... Jul 30 2010, 10:12 AM Dave my comment from the parallel "Yesterday's... Jul 30 2010, 11:57 AM southsiderMMX
my comment from the parallel "Yesterday... Jul 30 2010, 01:12 PM Tom Burns
2. So their advertisers are worthless on line wh... Jul 30 2010, 02:48 PM edgeywood
Like I said before, the whole rest of the news wo... Jul 31 2010, 07:36 AM NDReporter
The "online community" doesn't have... Jul 31 2010, 10:53 AM taxthedeer It's after 5PM?...Why hasn't it updated? Jul 30 2010, 04:17 PM Ang Because 5:00 is quittin' time! Jul 30 2010, 09:16 PM Tim While I've been vocal in my illumination of th... Jul 30 2010, 09:52 PM Tim I posted this at the site -
So does this mean th... Jul 30 2010, 10:14 PM NDReporter
I posted this at the site -
So does this mean t... Jul 31 2010, 01:48 AM Tim
We're getting a lot of comments about the web... Jul 31 2010, 02:33 AM NDReporter
The ND has an online edition and the ND doesn... Jul 31 2010, 10:52 AM Tim
I'm a reporter, not a web technician. We did ... Jul 31 2010, 03:32 PM NDReporter
I'm sure I didn't say you personally. No... Jul 31 2010, 03:52 PM Tim
I'm just sick of people railing on those of u... Jul 31 2010, 03:56 PM NDReporter
NO ONE IS RAILING ON YOU PERSONALLY. WE ALL KNOW... Jul 31 2010, 04:08 PM Tim
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Which part of that didn't you get? ... Jul 31 2010, 05:03 PM Tom Burns
Which part of that didn't you get? I just re... Jul 31 2010, 06:39 PM Tim
Now that there is no local publisher, at least a... Jul 31 2010, 08:16 PM southsiderMMX
Now that there is no local publisher, at least a... Jul 31 2010, 08:58 PM edgeywood
Yeah, free advertising sucks, doesn't it?
B... Jul 31 2010, 09:32 PM MC Born & Raised The reality is, for most newspapers the Web isn... Jul 31 2010, 02:35 PM TSNSPYDER He needs to say it this way (in a Scotty voice)...... Jul 31 2010, 04:15 PM Tim Just looked at the website - I notice they didn... Jul 31 2010, 04:27 PM southsiderMMX Every single person in this town knows that the Ne... Jul 31 2010, 09:54 PM Tim ^^^
Excellent post, SS.
This statement is pretty... Jul 31 2010, 11:55 PM Tom Burns "Yeah, free advertising sucks, doesn't it... Aug 1 2010, 07:36 AM southsiderMMX I would like to clarify something else here I just... Aug 1 2010, 08:51 AM Tom Burns Audit Bureau of Circulation figures show the News ... Aug 1 2010, 03:45 PM Tom Burns Gathering local news is not without considerable h... Aug 1 2010, 06:21 PM southsiderMMX
Audit Bureau of Circulation figures show the News... Aug 1 2010, 06:40 PM Tom Burns
Which goes to my point that people should be work... Aug 2 2010, 02:15 AM Ang There is a way to prevent people from copying and ... Aug 2 2010, 08:27 AM mcstumper
There is a way to prevent people from copying and... Aug 2 2010, 04:02 PM Agent99
There is a way to prevent people from copying and... Aug 2 2010, 04:14 PM southsiderMMX
There's actually a fairly simple java script ... Aug 2 2010, 04:25 PM 5thGen I don't post much, however I lurk quite a bit.... Aug 3 2010, 05:43 AM Tom Burns While we can and do broadcast news as it develops... Aug 3 2010, 08:26 AM NDReporter
I don't post much, however I lurk quite a bit... Aug 3 2010, 10:52 AM lighter While South Bend Trib, nwi.com and now post-trib g... Aug 3 2010, 12:56 PM Ang I support you Alicia! And Adam, too!
Per... Aug 3 2010, 01:10 PM MC Born & Raised I always find the cost complaint to be interesting... Aug 3 2010, 02:06 PM Ang No offense taken. My problem is not really the fa... Aug 3 2010, 02:49 PM taxthedeer I always felt that Michigan City should consider i... Aug 3 2010, 03:37 PM lighter A little research led to this, the herald-argus.co... Aug 4 2010, 09:16 AM southsiderMMX
A little research led to this, the herald-argus.c... Aug 6 2010, 11:28 AM Tom Burns "A little research led to this, the herald-ar... Aug 5 2010, 08:40 AM taxthedeer
Current daily circulation of HA is 7954, ND is ... Aug 7 2010, 12:10 PM southsiderMMX
I predict that the demise of the Michigan City Ne... Aug 7 2010, 04:49 PM Tom Burns With the technology of a few years ago that woul... Aug 8 2010, 05:59 PM Tim I have to say that the online edition of the ND is... Aug 5 2010, 11:02 PM lighter Seems the editors at N-dispatch r eatin a little c... Aug 27 2010, 12:14 PM |
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