Alexis Madrigal: Photo galleries an ‘invisible poison’ to news sites
“Readers may click through your slideshow, but they’ll hate you a liiitttle bit more than they did when they got to the site. …Â You can get a page view spike that’s actually a negative for your brand. And the more the slideshow spreads because of a clever headline or just because the topic is hot, the farther that brand damage spreads. Congratulations! You juiced the stats with an invisible poison!”
Media scholars at the University of Maryland documented the spread of local news dead spots — and unexpected vibrant areas — in that state.
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IndyStar sports columnist Gregg Doyel has been crushed online and accused of being creepy, sexist and worse. He’s since apologized multiple times
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Bryan VanCampen of The Ithaca Times was an institution in the central New York college town of 32,000. He might have been the last of his kind.
