Papers preparing Web innovations.The Los Angeles Newspaper Group The Los Angeles Newspaper Group is an umbrella group of local daily newspapers published in the greater Los Angeles area by MediaNews Group. The news coverage of the newspapers are mainly local stories. , publisher of the Daily News of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , the Long Beach Press Telegram and papers in the San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. and Inland Empire In·land Empire A region of the northwest United States between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains, comprising eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, northern Idaho, and western Montana. Farming, lumbering, and mining are important to the area. , plans a redesign of its Web sites, including Web logs and reader-produced journalism. John Hoeft, vice president of interactive media for the newspaper cluster owned by MediaNews Group Not to be confused with Media General, an unrelated newspaper and TV group. MediaNews Group, based in Denver, Colorado, is one of the largest newspaper companies in the United States. , said many of the pending changes have been tested by the company's flagship, The Denver Post, and by the company's local entertainment Web site, la.com. Others have not. "We're just going to stick our toes in the water and experiment a little," Hoeft said. The Denver Post is a partner in YourHub.com, a site that allows readers throughout metropolitan Denver to submit stories and photographs from their communities. Selected stories from the Web site are published in special sections delivered with the print edition of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News The Rocky Mountain News is a daily morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. (Despite Scripps still running the paper, it's the only newspaper in the Scripps family not to have the corporate lighthouse logo on , which are partners in a joint operating agreement Any contract, agreement, Joint Venture, or other arrangement entered into by two or more businesses in which the operations and the physical facilities of a failing business are merged, although each business retains its status as a separate entity in terms of profits and . LANG executives are discussing different approaches to incorporating "citizen journalism" across the group's sprawling territory, which stretches from Ventura County to the Mojave Desert. No decision has been made on whether to replicate the YourHub model or take a different approach, Hoeft said. LANG could begin experimenting with citizen journalism by late this year. LANG is moving quicker on Web logs, commonly known as blogs and an increasingly ubiquitous feature of the online world. The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). also has experimented with blogs, notably during the recent Los Angeles mayoral race. LANG's la.com Web site runs a gossipy blog called LA.Comfidential, one of the site's most popular features. The Daily News is expected to introduce at least one blog in the next three months that Hoeft said will likely focus on local politics. Other blogs could come later, including some affiliated with other LANG newspaper sites or separate from the newspapers. The newspaper Web sites themselves also are due for their first makeover in years. Hoeft said LANG is testing a new Web publishing system that will allow it to revamp the sites over the next three months, cutting down on clutter for a more contemporary look. The Times revamped its own Web site in May making it easier to navigate and read. But one thing the Daily News will not attempt is the Times' much-ballyhooed experiment with "wikitorials"--online editorials that allowed readers to add their own opinions. The Times shut down the wikitorials within 24 hours in June after users flooded the site with obscene words and images. "We watched and learned," Hoeft said. |
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