Here’s what’s going on at Newhouse’s Birmingham News
* Insiders detail Birmingham News’s digital strategy (Media of Birmingham)
All reporters and photographers will have company-issued laptops and cell phones, filing content to al.com rather than for the next day’s print edition. Plus, they’re expected to shoot photos and videos and participate in social media. One staffer said the editors will “dip” into the “rivers” of posts for the Sunday, Wednesday and Friday newspapers.
-- slide from Birmingham News branding strategy presentation
Keith J. Kelly reports in the New York Post: Announcements in New Orleans and Alabama “sent shock waves through the Newhouse-owned papers back East, which include the Star-Ledger in Newark, the Times of Trenton, the Jersey Journal in Jersey City and the Staten Island Advance.”
