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Project Cool Trib Gets It ... And Does It
"Another mega-deal. More mega-media. But it is a creative, new media move? Yes, it is.

In the digital world, the significance of this deal is that it will push the envelope of change on how to cover, produce and present news in a multimedia world of print, television, online, and other formats.

"Despite having a past history (something that seems to make a company suspect in the realm of new media), The Tribune has been a model for the future, starting a few years ago when the name of the company was changed from the "Chicago Tribune Newspaper Company" to "The Tribune Company." The signal was loud and clear, internally and externally, that this would be a media company -- not merely a company that controlled printed products. "

Salon The return of the dead-tree media
"Analysts are comparing the merger of Times Mirror and the Tribune Company to AOL-Time Warner, but the combined company looks more like an industrial age holdout than a 21st century media giant."

Online Journalism Review ChicagoTribune.com: the Windy City as it happens
"At a time when most newspaper's online offices have all the energy of a morgue as a skeleton crew of editors funnel print and wire stories onto the Web, chicagotribune.com's newsroom pulses with adrenaline. Five days a week, six news reporters and six editors race to get original reporting onto the site as fast as local news breaks."

""It harkens back to that old tradition of great newspapering," says Interactive News Editor Thomas Cekay, a newspaper veteran seated at his desk near the middle of the action. "Have your coat nearby, because when news breaks, you're out the door.""

""...We see our function as being like an all-news radio station."'

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First Monday Interactive Features of Online Papers
"According to McAdams, who helped create the Washington Post's online service, "A journalist with little online experience tends to think in terms of stories, news value, public service and things that are good to read, but a person with a lot of online experience thinks more about connection, organization, movement within and among sets of information and communication among different people". Journalists today must choose. As gatekeepers they can transfer lots of information, or they can make users a smarter, more active and questioning audience for news events and issues. Making users smarter means involving them in a collaborative experience; i.e. interaction �

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