Chris Webb

Barack Obama and the Permanence of Paper

Business Week’s David Kiley says “Obama is great for newspapers” and describes his search for a newspaper this morning, only to find there were none available at the many locations he looked. Mr. Kiley wraps his post by asking the question “could it be that with such change afoot amidst a national financial crisis, readership of [...]

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Pat Holt to Book Critics: “Are we driving readers away?”

Jeff on the Print is Dead Blog points to Pat Holt’s great take on the decline of book review sections in newspapers. Even if you don’t care much about the disappearance of newspaper book reviews, take a few moments to read Pat’s thoughts as she gets right to the heart of the changes the entire content [...]

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USA Today’s Big Makeover

USA Today has unveiled a makeover that integrates several new social media/social networking features. Steve Rubel and Michael Arrington have nice things to say, but Josh Burnoff points out that readers hate it! From my quick glance at the comments, it appears most readers are not happy with the design, not necessarily the new [...]

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