Off to Duke University next week to participate in The Next Newsroom conference, a project designed to -- among other things -- drag print and broadcast journalism kicking and screaming into the current century.
If you look at too many newspaper (and television station) web sites, you see the use of new technology hampered by old ideas about when to report news. Daily and weekly newspapers waste too much space recycling what is published in their print editions (often after it is published on paper) and don't use the web to keep their readers informed on a timely basis.
Good news sites (like WashingtonPost.Com) realize that the web is a 24/7 web operation and publish stories as they break. The reader is not served by stale news.
