REMEMBER the days when news websites relied on tomorrow’s paper for stories? Today, the roles have been reversed with online counterparts providing more content to newspapers. Recently American newspaper BostonNow has decided to publish blogs submitted to its website. The idea is not new. Still, it is a noteworthy effort that hopes to “connect the community to the readers.”
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While most newspapers are trying to stake bigger claims online, one new publication is pulling material off the Internet to be printed in ink.
John Wilpers, editor in chief of BostonNow, a free weekday daily introduced last month, said he wanted to fill the paper with items that local bloggers submitted to the BostonNow Web site.
Last week, editors began culling posts and running excerpts next to articles from reporters and newswires. The blog items, which appear in gray boxes, are still relatively few, but Mr. Wilpers said he thought the feature would grow.
Mr. Wilpers, who previously edited two other free commuter newspapers, Metro Boston and The Washington Examiner, said he wanted to address what he believed was the news industry’s biggest problem: an inability to connect with the communities it covers.
May 7th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
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