Tt post mar 8 2016

"I watched Spotlight last week. It won the award for best film, and detailed how the Boston Globe investigative team uncovered the pedophile priest scandal in the Boston archdiocese."

And that reporting occurred or began in 2002.

• January 6, 2002 - Boston Globe - Church allowed abuse by priest for years

A little about the Globe's Spotlight team:

In 2001, The Boston Globe hires a new editor, Marty Baron. Baron meets Walter "Robby" Robinson, the editor of the Spotlight team, a small group of journalists writing investigative articles that take months to research and publish.

Today, that will be tough to replicate at small to mid-sized local daily newspapers.

A good documentary to watch is Black and White and Dead All Over. It used to exist on Netflix.

... a 2013 documentary film ... Black and White and Dead All Over portrays the struggles of American newspapers to maintain circulation and editorial quality in the early 21st century. It primarily focuses on hardships within the Philadelphia Daily News, a 90-year-old newspaper that has undergone numerous ownership changes and bankruptcy proceedings in the past decade

January 2002. Think about what did not exist at that time. Even MySpace did not exist in January 2002. Wordpress did not exist.

Prior to January 2002, we had LiveJournal, Xanga, Blogger, Movable Type, GeoCities, and Tripod.

But no Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, smartphones, tablets, App Store, responsive design, etc.

In 2002, most web access outside of work occurred at home with a dial-up connection, using a desktop or laptop computer. And I bet many residences at that time had one desktop computer that was shared by everyone in the residence.

October 2003 Toledo Talk thread that pointed to a Blade story, published that same month and year, titled: Area still cool to wireless-fidelity, but in a few places it's hot in Toledo

High speed wireless-fidelity Internet connections, or WiFi connections as they are called, have begun is startingto make inroads in the Toledo area with several “hot spots” popping up at various restaurants, coffee shops, hotels and other public locations.

According to the WiFi Alliance, a nonprofit international association formed to certify wireless network products based on a technical standard, there are now at least nine hot spots -locations where wireless high speed Internet connections will work, or hot spots, in and around the Toledo area.

You can follow news about the media industry by accessing this aggregator site http://mediagazer.com/

A couple stories from this week by the same writer:

• Facebook is eating the world
• Adblocking is a small part of the bigger question, who controls the media?

... adblockers are used by people who don’t wish to harm the news industry, but do wish to halve their mobile phone data bills; in other words adblocking thrives because of a failure towards consumers.

Forcing people to consume advertising that strips their data and costs them money is hardly a vote-winning strategy.

Feb 29, 2016 - Philly.com - Forget 'Spotlight' - There's a war against journalism

Ignore the content of that Philly.com article, regardless of its validity.

Submit the URL for the above Philly.com story into Webpagetest.org.

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• Time: 119.970s
• Requests: 1,201
• Bytes in: 15,368 KB - (15.3 megabytes ??!!)
• Cost: $$$$$

The cost rating maxes out at five dollar signs, otherwise, that page would probably be rated 10 dollar signs.

Philly.com does not look nice on the phone. They redesigned their site recently in order to have one site that displays well on all devices.

http://www.philly.com/philly/about/Redesign.html

Back in December, we released an improved mobile experience. Now you can enjoy a cleaner, more visually appealing Philly.com on larger screens, too.

The article page is at the heart of our content. We have released a fully redesigned article page for all devices. Try one below.

And when you try one of their articles, same thing.