Washington Posts’s Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. and Managing Editor Philip Bennett sent a memo to staff members outlining changes to their editing system for A-section stories. The gist: • Some assistant editors will have earlier shifts • The national and foreign copy desks will be combined (I was surprised they hadn’t done that already, [...]

For Memorial Day, several newspapers put together multimedia presentations: • Colorado’s Fallen: “They were called to serve. Young Coloradans with bright visions of the future left family and friends for a distant battlefield. But bullets and roadside bombs do not spare the dreamers.” Video interviews and family photos. Denver Post • Making it home: “After [...]

European media is a step ahead. The BBC is broadcasting a TV show in Second Life. Sky News is already part of Second Life. And the Press Association used Second Life and Twitter to cover the 2007 Budget. U.S. media could (and should) be first to jump on board and create widgets, though. And then [...]

Google’s hot trends shows what folks are searching. Many times they make sense — there were many “American Idol”-related searches after the season finale, but sometimes … they don’t. That many people were really searching for “Kansas rivers?” That’s a big school project somewhere … (I love the degrees of “hotness.”) Skybus is offering $10 [...]

Fox News makes you stupid: … the survey respondents who seemed to know the most about what’s going on — who were able to identify major public figures, for example — were likely to be viewers of fake news programs like Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”; those who knew the least [...]