A recent comScore study shows that: • 18- to 24-year-olds are 38 percent more likely than the general population to not read a newspaper in a typical week. • 35- to 44-year-olds were 9 percent more likely to not read a newspaper in a typical week. • 45- to 54-year-olds were 24 percent more likely [...]

I’ve come to a realization: I’m too old for my profession. OK, it’s not that I’m too old. I’m only 31. There are quite a few people older than me hanging around the newsroom and getting paid for it. (I am getting dangerously close to the age where I am required to sit at my [...]

Deadline graphics are generally jpg versions of the print graphic. XML/SWF Charts, a free application, can change that, giving you Flash-based graphics fairly quickly. Warning, though, it’s a little more code-based than most graphic designers might be used to. Graphics are built from XML files, which are pretty simple to write (and easy to debug [...]

I saw this quote on a blog that I frequently read: “If every American recycled just one newspaper a week, about 36 million trees a year would be spared. Making recycled newspaper takes half as much energy as producing virgin newsprint.” –Workman I haven’t found the original source, but doesn’t that mean every American would [...]

The St. Paul Pioneer Press has added “online @” tags to its stories, two of them today — one was online at 4:18 p.m., the other at 2:34 p.m. The three other stories on the page did not have tags; perhaps they weren’t online. I love timestamps, but this isn’t the logical use of them. [...]