Almighty Link

During the month of October, 690 Twitter messages were sent to the Chicago Tribune’s @ColonelTribune account, while 94 tweets were sent to @NYTimes. In those 31 days, the automated Times feed churned out 43 tweets per day, for a total of 1,334 tweets. The Tribune’s human team posted a little more than 13 messages daily, totalling 414 for [...]

The Chicago Tribune Monday unveiled prototypes of their upcoming newspaper redesign. The Huffington Post wrote “less news, more pictures.” This emphasis on photos is in line with the “above the fold” placement of a box promoting pictuers on chicagotribune.com’s homepage. Links in that box go to six galleries with a total of 1,323 pictures. (“Classic Chicago” [...]