Comments on: How the Web can help the WaPo (and other papers) write a new chapter about the world of books http://www.ojr.org/p1664/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=p1664 Focusing on the future of digital journalism Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Harding http://www.ojr.org/p1664/#comment-1733 John Harding Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:52 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1664#comment-1733 Lindsey Davis’s top 10 Roman books leaves out Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – sign of the (shallow) times.

]]> By: Russ Walker http://www.ojr.org/p1664/#comment-1731 Russ Walker Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:46:07 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1664#comment-1731 Good piece. Two WaPo-specific thoughts:

1) Why not have Yardley and/or Dirda blog full-time. I’d rather read a blog centered around one of them than a group blog with no personality.

2) The problem with making the Book section look better online is that the Web site staff is small and getting smaller. Until print and Web teams are merged and cross-trained, it’s going to be hard to pull the resources together to do anything more than what they are doing.

But books coverage is definitely a WaPo strong point and an opportunity for them to create a strong online destination. Too bad advertisers aren’t exactly clamoring to fund it…

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