{"id":852,"date":"2008-03-14T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2008-12-20T19:01:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T19:01:20","slug":"but-first-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/03\/but-first-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"But first the news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/publishing2.com\/2008\/03\/13\/radical-idea-for-news-sites-show-whats-new-on-your-homepage\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">cott Karp<\/span><\/a> has an interesting suggestion for newspapers online. Put news first.<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[L]et\u2019s look at the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span>. It\u2019s homepage is arranged, like most traditional media brand sites, by what is most important.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the problem \u2014 if you visit the<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> New York Times<\/span> throughout the day, and no important news has broken, the homepage remains largely unchanged, static, like a print newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Organizing news by importance as the default makes sense when you\u2019re only delivering the news once a day (and the \u201cdefault\u201d is all you get). But when news publishing is continuous, it\u2019s not the best way to server frequent news consumers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem remains &#8211; as it does for blogs &#8211; drawing attention to your archive material. Do you just have to leave it to search engines&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Karp has an interesting suggestion for newspapers online. Put news first. [L]et\u2019s look at the New York Times. It\u2019s homepage is arranged, like most traditional media brand sites, by what is most important. Here\u2019s the problem \u2014 if you visit the New York Times throughout the day, and no important news has broken, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1416,289],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-new-york-times","tag-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}