Observer’s web-first experiment

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 9 February 2007 at 17:42
Tags: Journalism

The Observer claimed today that it was one of the first Sunday newspapers to stick a story up on the internet rather than save it for the paper on Sunday.

While the reaction of some journalists on weekly publications to this news may be “woopy do, we’ve been banging out web breaking news as well print exclusives for years” - it does raise interesting questions about how Sunday newspapers should go about using the internet.

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Graham | 9 February 2007 at 5:58pm

Snorts tea thru nose…. This blog just woke up.
Martin Stabe | 9 February 2007 at 6:23pm

Whew. Good to see not everyone deleted the RSS feed.

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