Comments on Scooping the News: Which daily newspapers are the most innovative?

Thanks for the comment and thanks for sharing that...

2009-06-16T09:23:52.230-04:00

Thanks for the comment and thanks for sharing that information! It's very interesting to learn more about Web practices at various newspapers.

I would also suggest that if you look at other asp...

2009-06-16T08:51:02.126-04:00

I would also suggest that if you look at other aspects of innovation, you would still see the Knoxville News Sentinel with a high ranking. The KNS was actively encouraging the blogging community to be participants in the paper's online community when many other newspapers were either ignoring the trend toward to blogging or treating the medium as a horde of barbarians at the gate. The KNS has a staff that understands the web site is more than a digital copy of the paper. They have integrated blogs, video, and social media into their approach to tell the news and serve the community.
Full disclosure-- I am an invited blogger at the KNS site as co-blogger on the long-running No Silence Here, but I am not a paid employee of the newspaper.

Thanks for the comment and thanks for reading Scoo...

2009-06-15T22:12:32.397-04:00

Thanks for the comment and thanks for reading Scooping the News!

Thanks for this unique feature, guys. Most of us c...

2009-06-15T18:27:38.203-04:00

Thanks for this unique feature, guys. Most of us can comprehend what you're trying to do here, but we'll understand if you need to slow down so that Wade can catch up. ;)

One of our readers just posted a comment on Friday...

2009-06-15T15:13:12.923-04:00

One of our readers just posted a comment on Friday's blog entry that we should evaluate www.fresnobee.com. We appreciate your suggestions for newspaper Web sites to evaluate. Keep them coming!

We trust our readers can understand that the highe...

2009-06-15T15:05:22.197-04:00

We trust our readers can understand that the higher a newspaper's score, the more innovative that newspaper is compared to newspapers with lower scores. For instance, Wade, since the The Miami Herald scored a 17 and that's higher than the Lexington Herald-Leader's score of 12, that means we consider The Miami Herald more innovative than the Lexington Herald-Leader. Again, this is not an attempt to rank newspapers. Thanks again for reading and thanks for the question!

Your comment: "This was not an attempt to ra...

2009-06-15T15:00:00.847-04:00

Your comment:

"This was not an attempt to rank the most innovative newspaper Web sites, though."

does not jive with your headline:

"Which daily newspapers are the most innovative?"

Which is it?

Thanks for the links, Wade. This was not an atte...

2009-06-15T14:59:50.966-04:00

Thanks for the links, Wade.

This was not an attempt to rank the most innovative newspaper Web sites, though. The blog post clearly states, "Each week, Scooping the News will select five U.S. daily newspapers' Web sites and evaluate how well they are performing in five areas used to define innovation. . . . Each newspaper received a score ranging from 1 to 4 based on changes in their Web sites from five years ago to present."

We are simply evaluating how innovative these newspapers have been with their Web sites during the last five years. Perhaps we will evaluate some of the newspaper Web sites you suggested next Monday. They actually look quite different from the Knoxville News Sentinel. Thanks again for the links and thanks for reading!

Innovative should not mean "derived from a co...

2009-06-15T14:41:50.621-04:00

Innovative should not mean "derived from a corporate template":

To wit, No. 2 Knoxville is just a clone of most other Scripps sites:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/
http://www.redding.com/
http://www.venturacountystar.com/
http://www.dailycamera.com/
http://www.gosanangelo.com/

So either you have a 10-way tie at No. 2, or you should dig a little deeper for innovative newspaper sites.