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The New York Times will be expanding City Room, one of the news site's most popular blogs, to include public records.

NYT is currently developing a feature which will "highlight hard-to-get, but telling documents," such as court records and confessions, wills, law enforcement material, ancient city and financial records and "who knows what else."

"I have long been an admirer of The Smoking Gun Web site," said Metro Editor, Joe Sexton, in his recent Talk to the Newsroom column. "We're going to try to take a stab at having some of that fun and impact."

Sexton also noted that the blog will soon include "audio profiles -- short, unexpected narratives told in the first person by a wide range of New Yorkers... The first is a pharmacist who has worked on the Lower East Side for four decades, and so far survived the neighborhood's transformation."

Source: Poynter

With elite papers, such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times cutting staff, the few "No. 2" papers left are struggling to survive.

A No. 2 paper "usually keeps the dominant daily on its toes," writes Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz, by reporting overlooked stories, which are typically more popular in poorer neighborhoods.

The only major cities left with head-to-head competition, excluding those where two papers have the same owner or share business operations with federal approval, are New York, Washington, Chicago, and perhaps Los Angeles, according to Kurtz. The Cincinnati Post is the latest second-place paper to close, when its operations shut down last year.

The Boston Herald's, Boston's No. 2 paper, daily circulation shrunk to 203,000 and on Sunday, it fell to 113,000, in comparison with the Boston Globe's 384,000. The Herald only has 10 city reporters left in addition to those in the feature, business, and sports sections.

"It's almost as if Boston doesn't have a place for its second daily anymore," Boston magazine columnist Joe Keohane wrote, "particularly one that features a constant parade of pervs, solons, swindlers, bums and punks."

Kevin Convey, the Herald's editor says, "The Globe is more likely to write a story about how some government program is going to assist the poor and downtrodden. We're more likely to suggest it's a boondoggle that ought to be bounced off the face of the Earth."

Tabloids are more irreverent and prone to report on big names and scandals (a headline for former governor Mitt Romney's withdrawal from the presidential race was "MITT HAPPENS.") But with blogs unconcerned about newsprint costs, there appears to be little room left for tabloids. And with cities such as Boston becoming more "upscale," it is a question whether tabloids are desired anymore.

"Tabloids in some cases say what other papers only think," says Convey. But, "a lot of people find tabloids to be beneath them. In Boston, where the air is a bit more rarefied and you're closer to Harvard, some people have a problem with tabloids. I think there's a certain nobility in tabloids."

"I don't think it's that Massachusetts has become snootier. The old Herald readers are just leaving the state. The blue-collar exodus has affected the paper," says Herald columnist Howie Carr.

The Herald depends on street sales for three-quarters of its circulation. It shut down its Washington bureau, has old presses that break down, and a 125 person staff that struggles to cover the suburbs or out-of-town reports. Moreover, the Herald plans to outsource its printing and move out of its headquarters into rented space. However, it does not plan on changing its snarky tone.

"I don't think it's time to give up the ghost," Convey says.

The Globe, which won a Pulitzer for arts criticism this month, is not thriving either. The paper, has already cut jobs and accepted buyouts. Its only remaining foreign and domestic correspondents are in Washington.

"We're facing the same challenges everyone else is, trying to figure out what the future of the newspaper is going to look like," says Globe editor Martin Baron. "We have become more local. We have significantly scaled back what we do outside the Boston area. We're realists here. We realize the business is changing."

Source: WashingtonPost.com

The New York Times’ local news blog City Room, launched last June, will soon make its way into the print edition. The online-to-print move is also a good example of print-online cross-promotion.

It has been said that journalism schools have been lagging behind in their adaptation to new media and the rapid evolution of journalism (flashback: in 1995, a publication by the Society of Professional Journalists contended journalists’ new media skills were “nice, but not necessary.”). This is starting to change though – or is it? What should tomorrow’s journalists be learning? Jeff Jarvis, Roy Greenslade, and Keith Woods from the Poynter Institute describe their own experiences for the Weblog.

In a recent interview with I Want Media, Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, explained many of the changes occurring within the paper and the more generally, his vision for the future of the newspaper industry.

Newspapers hoping to increase reader feedback and encourage discussion could look to The Fray, a popular forum hosted by online magazine Slate, for inspiration.  The Fray combines usability and staff input to stimulate reader discussions on a broad range of topics.

The New York Times will target the New York City community with “City Room,” a blog and online community for city residents, headed by Times Metro reporter Sewell Chan.  Through this online venture, the company will specifically address New York City citizens with information relevant to their location.

Deputy Managing Editor of the New York Times, Jonathan Landman, joined delegates at the 14th World Editors Forum to present speech focused on the exciting consequences of change in newsrooms and newspapers everywhere, and the many developments taking place faster than the speed of printing.  The one thing the modern newspaper’s practitioners cannot be is to be scared of change.  

The New York Times Metro section is launching ‘City Room’, an ambitious online project to cover New York City’s five boroughs with breaking news, human interest stories, local history and anecdotes, as well as Q&A with the Times’ staff. Workaholic Times writer Sewell Chan (422 bylines in a twelve-month period) will head the desk.

The Los Angeles Times is a prime example of a major American metro newspaper whose national and international news is trumped by news agencies and larger papers like the New York Times while its regional coverage remains inferior to local publications. Currently faced with huge losses in circulation coupled with pressure from shareholders, LAT is struggling to redefine itself in order to maintain its relevancy. A two-pronged approach is necessary: exploit local resources and diversity while overhauling the substandard website.

As the battle over who will claim the London afternoon free paper turf begins its second week, two somewhat contradictory articles surfaced in the British press. One concludes that the freesheets' publishers won't be reporting profits any time soon. The other suggests that in ten years, all print papers may be free.

Today can officially be considered the start of the London afternoon free newspaper battle between Associated Newspapers and News International. The two publishers have been preparing for this moment all summer as a combined 800,000 copies between them will now be distributed to evening commuters.

The world's third largest newspaper by distribution, the freesheet Metro, has worked its way into Mexico, launching its familiar green masthead in the world's second largest city. Back across the pond, Pelle Tornberg, Metro International's chief, is thirsty for competition in the English capital, planning to launch an afternoon paper. But there are dangers.

"If individual leaders tell lies irresponsibly, this is an extremely terrible crime against society, because any rumor could trigger a social disaster." This quote from the China Economic Times is not one you may expect to hear from the Chinese press. But in the wake of a chemical spill that polluted a major river, the Chinese media has found some room to breathe.

"Meximerica Media, a U.S.-based publishing company, announced that Rumbo de Houston, its second Spanish-language daily newspaper, has started publication on August 30. After the successful launch of Rumbo de San Antonio, Meximerica Media continues its efforts towards establishing a new chain of Spanish-language dailies in Texas with the launch of Rumbo de Houston, to be followed by subsequent launches in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Austin in September and October. Rumbo (pronounced room-bo), comes from the Spanish word often associated with the Latin American phrase meaning "heading north" and, by implication, heading to move up in life. Rumbo de Houston is a complete full-color, tabloid-size, Spanish-language newspaper, primarily aimed at Hispanic men and women between the ages of 21 and 54.