In Tough Times, a Redesigned Journal
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Starting Jan. 2, The Wall Street Journal will shrink in width by 3 inches, to an industry standard of 12 inches, reducing the space devoted to news by 10 percent.
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By MARGARET BARBER  Dear Editor, I was struck by the irony of the juxtaposition of two articles in of The Birmingham Post (Dec 14).   The first told of concerns that teenagers were finding it difficult to get jobs because they were not able to express themselves adequately.
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Disappointments abound across business lines. Apparently, it is time for a change.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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Magazine publishers are finding the checkout counter more appealing.
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Two new books provide ambitious overviews of complicated topics.
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Some days it is difficult to know exactly where to begin a column.
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The new managing editor seeks to better coordinate the print and online versions.
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec.
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The Wall Street Journal will announce a major newsroom shake-up, including the reassignment and replacement of several top editors, officials there say.
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Ruby Tuesday has some work to do to revitalize its brand.
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Blog: The wildly popular blog run by a handful of professional journalists and novelists has redesigned, added a new
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A year has gone by and much has changed at the company. But is it different enough yet?
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Publisher reports another strong year.
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Style and design are not the only issues filling the days of Robert A. Lutz. Increasingly, much of his attention has been focused on the cost side.
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Struggling financial site gets redesign, new functions but faces tough competition.
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By Olson, Scott  A redesigned state Web portal unveiled last month should make it easier for Hoosiers to plow through mounds of government minutia.  But, more important, the revamping set to be finished in mid- 2008 represents a major shift in state policy.