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ETN joined by PIT papers with no comment policy

May 22nd, 2010 joel

A Press and Tower survey of major metro dailies in the Tri-state area shows that of the seven newspaper websites reviewed, four allow comments and just three do not. GoErie.com/Erie Times-News is joined by the websites of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review with a moratorium on reader comments.

However, the newspapers we looked at outside of the Commonwealth of  Pennsylvania all allowed reader comments. The breakdown:

  • Erie: Erie Times-News – GoErie.com
  • Akron: Akron Beacon Journal – Ohio.com
    • Comments by registered users
    • Share story tools by AddThis.com
  • Buffalo: Buffalo News – Buffalonews.com
    • Comments by registered users
    • Story ratings by registered users
    • Share story tools by AddThis.com
  • Cleveland: The Plain Dealer – Cleveland.com
    • Comments by registered users
    • Story recommendations by registered users
    • Custom share story tools
    • Extensive social networking tools that allow you to create a profile with likes, recommendations, etc.
  • Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Post-gazette.com
    • No comments
    • Custom share story tools
  • Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Pittsburghlive.com
    • No comments
    • Custom share story tools
  • Youngstown: Youngstown Vindicator – Vindy.com
    • Comments by registered users
    • Share story tools by AddThis.com

Finally, I think its funny that some of the sites don’t include Twitter as a top sharing tool. To me, Facebook and Twitter are the two social networking sites where I’ll find out about a story, as opposed to StumbleUpon or Digg.

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How did the Times-News get scooped by the Trib?

September 9th, 2008 joel

I didn’t want my first post about the newspaper to be negative. I have a lot of friends who work there, and as the only game in town, they are an easy target that lots of people shoot at. Besides I consider it an everyday miracle how a multi-page broadsheet which contains tens of thousands of words, all perfectly paginated with pictures and fully-designed ads, arrives at my stoop before 6:00 AM every morning. I know how hard it is to put three paragraphs together let alone multiple diverse stories every day. Newspapermen and women have my utmost respect.

But I am dumbfounded that after nearly a year and a half of publishing story after story covering the facts and high emotion surrounding Erie Renewable Energy’s effort to build a power plant with waste tires as the fuel, it is only coming out now that there are not enough tires out there to fully operate the plant. And it took a Pittsburgh newspaper, the Tribune-Review to dig that out first.

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