Looks like DesMoinesRegister.com has gone through another iteration of redesign. I primarily get my news via RSS these days, so I don’t know when they changed the site. I commented on DesMoinesRegister.com in the past so I’ll offer my thoughts again.
For once, I’m impressed by some of what they’ve done. First, the speed with which [...]
Well, it looks like the usual corporate ladder rearranging is happening today as the Des Moines Register hires Carolyn Washburn to be Editor.
As I mentioned before, the Register is a management training ground for newspaper editors within Gannett. You may think the Idaho Statesman is a Knight Ridder paper, but up until August of this [...]
As you know, the Des Moines Register’s teenage son, Juice, has been blogging for about four months now. And while the Juice blogs are continually crappy or just plain boring, we all knew at some point the full Register would have to join in the party. This past week the Register has turned on five [...]
Des Moines Register Editor Paul Anger is leaving to be Editor at the Detroit Free Press. Here’s a
link to the story.
This is great. Anger has really done nothing for the paper in terms of news coverage and quality. Sure he can brag about Kauffman’s Pulitzer nomination, but that’s an anomaly. Overall, the paper has sucked [...]
Back in March, the 3 largest newspaper chains agreed to buy a majority share in Topix.net. Think of Topix.net as a cross between Google News and Google Local – they offer news from a variety of sources that is aggregated by geography. (Yes, they also do this same sort of thing by topic – e.g. [...]
I was watching Iowa Press last night which had Mike Glover and David Yepsen chatting with Gov. Vilsack and I realized the show was more about the reporters making a name for themselves than Vilsack. After watching Yepsen ask 3 times about independent oversight for the DHS, I thought he was putting on a nice [...]
This is kind of humorous. Juice (the crappy-Des-Moines-version of Chicago’s Red Eye newspaper) is looking for guest bloggers.
Before you go sign up, here’s my advice:
Ask them what their daily readership is at DMJuice.com
Ask to retain rights to all your material
Go setup a Blogger account and do it yourself
The Register has a great excerpt from an interview with outgoing Des Moines city manager Eric Anderson. It’s a must-read for residents of the city. (Couldn’t the Register have posted the full transcript of the interview online? They’ll never learn that bandwidth is cheaper than paper.)
Since the Register was an avid supporter of the city-county [...]
So we’ve started getting the Sunday New York Times to compliment our existing subscription to the Sunday Des Moines Register. But for the last two weeks my wife has walked out to the driveway (where the Times lands) to get the paper and left the Register sitting outside on the front step.
Every Sunday, the easy-read-but-uninteresting [...]
The Register is reporting on the sale of Maytag with headline and copy stating the deal is worth $2.1 billion (In fact the headline says “sold to … for $2.1 billion”). Yet, the WSJ puts the deal at $1.1 billion (sorry, subscription required).
I’d go with the WSJ on this one. It’s hard to think professional [...]
What are they thinking? The folks running DesMoinesRegister.com put a top level navigation in for the continuously lame juice publication. See below with the link highlighted by the red oval.
First off, it doesn’t fit with the top level categories they have in the navigation bar. “Hmm, I’m looking for some sports scores [under the sports [...]
As mentioned yesterday, here is Rob Borsellino’s own words about testifying in D.C. And he got to experience some normal Washington excitement with the threat of a plane in restricted airspace. Then he was asked:
Why Iowa?
I told him it’s a great place to raise kids, it’s easy to park and it’s very welcoming.
Rarely do you [...]
Rob Borsellino, one of the better writers for the Des Moines Register, went to Washington to testify about having ALS (known as Lou Gehrig’s disease). This Register column talks a little about the Senate hearing where he pitched his book to Senators and made other jokes. Hopefully, Rob will write his own wry piece about [...]
Despite State 29’s warning, I talked to Erin Crawford from the Register yesterday about the Iowa blogging community. (In the interest of full disclosure, I used to work at the Register).
It was a good conversation in which she asked me a number of questions: How did I get started blogging? Did I feel the pressure [...]
State 29 is not interested in offering comments to a reporter from the Des Moines Register. But State 29 is interested in sending readers over to the Register every chance possible. Here’s the number links to Register stories from State 29’s blog each month:
January – 35 links
February – 41 links
March – 50 links
In April, it’s [...]
Check here
and here for some great humor reading today. But these are actual news stories. First, a convenience store clerk shoots himself when adjusting his gun. And then, near Cedar Falls, we have a woman who gets rashes and headaches from EM fields, so she lives in metal trailer inside a metal barn.
Reality is so [...]
Well the Des Moines Register entered the online-blog-youth-market with a new, currently online only, publication today. As I mentioned before,
Juice, is geared toward the already consolidating free weekly reader market. We’ll see if the MSM can be successful at being alternative.
So far the layout and design is just as crappy as DesMoinesRegister.com. Don’t they know [...]
My free 6-week subscription to the daily Register expired last week. So I have to resort to using DesMoinesRegister.com or reading the paper at the coffee shop (or catching snippets from State 29, with usually-good commentary).
Nonetheless, using DesMoinesRegister.com pains me. Let me explain.
WTF? What is this ad? Why is this woman’s face staring at [...]
Looks like Des Moines will be down to just one alternative newspaper (for now). Business Publications Corp sold Cityview to the majority owners of Point Blank. And those new owners said they are closing up Point Blank and attempting to merge staffs. The last Point Blank is on the stands right now.
Since the Register is [...]
Normally, blogs follow the mainstream media, commenting on stories like a remora picking up scraps from the sharks. But today Erin Crawford reports on the conspiracy theory developed mostly on blogs about how former Whitehouse reporter Jeff Gannon is actually missing newspaper boy Johnny Gosch. This is great switch, blogs create news and the Register [...]