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John Wilpers

http://johnwilpers.wordpress.com

I highlight newspapers' creative incorporation of local bloggers into the publishing company's websites and the printed pages of the newspaper itself. I focus on placing bloggers not in a blogger ghetto but on the theme-appropriate web and newspaper page (sports bloggers in the sports section, etc.).

• Added on: May 29th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: John Wilpers
• Listed in: News & Media Journalists
• Tags: blogging newspaper newspapers new media bloggers reverse publishing

Recent Posts

• “CHICAGO NOW” EDITORS MAKE LIKE EARLY ROCKET SCIENTISTS AND MISFIRE WITH BLOGS

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 07:04 in blogging, blogs, chicago, newspapers, new media, chicago tribune, user generated content, red eye, redeye, chicagonow

  Blog aggregation is not rocket science. It does, however, require common sense. And common sense would seem to scream: “STOP! DON’T DO IT” if someone suggested creating a stand-alone website made up of a bunch of largely anonymous ...

• UNORGANIZED USER-GENERATED CONTENT DUMPED IN A BLOGGER GHETTO IS NONSENSE

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 13:16 in blogging, blogs, newspapers, ugc, user generated content, newspaper websites, reader blogs

  HIGH-QUALITY NON-STAFF BLOGS SHOULD RUN IN THE WEBSITE (AND PAPER) SECTION PERTAINING TO THEIR TOPIC. When was the last time your colleagues said they were heading out for a wild weekend of reading generic user-generated blogs? Never, right? No one (...

• WHY CAN’T NEWSPAPERS FIGURE OUT HOW TO INCORPORATE QUALITY LOCAL BLOGGERS?

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 14:32 in web, blogging, blogs, newspaper, newspapers, bloggers

  Le Monde incorporates high-quality bloggers on their website in the appropriate section right next to staff content, but clearly labeled as a blog. No blogger ghetto ...

• CAN HIGH-QUALITY BLOGGERS HELP RESCUE NEWSPAPERS?

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 15:03 in blogging, blogs, media, blogosphere, newspapers, new media

  (The INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS 2009 World Report is out and I have a piece in it called, “Can Top-Quality Local Bloggers Help Rescue Newspapers.” I republish it here for those who have not seen the report. It can be ordered here. This is ...

• Nine minutes that could help save your newspaper: How local bloggers can add content, revenue, reach

  Posted on Friday February 13th, 2009 at 07:18 in blogs, newspapers, bloggers, user generated content, inma

  When I spoke at the International Newsmedia Marketing Association “The Newspaper Outlook Experience” conference in Vienna, Austria last fall, I was interviewed by Artur Karda, multimedia reporter at Media Regionalne, for the Forum4Editor...

• GlobalPost launches with hundreds of global blogs

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 14:07

  With the recent launch of GlobalPost, high-quality bloggers are being given positions of prominence for the first time on a major news media website, starting with promotion on the home page. Hundreds of top-notch bloggers from 41 countries around th...

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