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Slideshows worth it
Nicholas Von Staden, Photographer
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Pompano Beach | FL | USA | Posted: 10:47 PM on 11.18.10 |
->> .ROMENESKO....Perhaps it's time to stop thinking of slideshows as the scourge of online journalism
Columbia Journalism Review
"Even the most asinine [slideshow] galleries help to subsidize the serious, thoughtful, and wordy articles that don't earn as much traffic," writes Chadwick Matlin. The Big Money, he says, ran just one a week when it was around, "but often that one slideshow earned an entire day's worth of traffic on its own.".....more at ....http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=194711 |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 12:59 AM on 11.20.10 |
| ->> slideshows might not get as many "hits" but galleries rule. we often have 50,000 over 100,000 hits on our sports galleries from big games. the stories struggle to keep up. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 1:00 AM on 11.20.10 |
| ->> oh and btw, who the hell called slideshows the "scourge of online journalism"? some disgruntled writer I'm sure.... |
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Jeff Stanton, Photographer
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Princeton | IN | USA | Posted: 10:12 PM on 11.20.10 |
| ->> Chuck, just curious. How much money do your slideshows generate? |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 1:56 PM on 11.21.10 |
->> Come on Jeff...even if I had that information (which I don't...it's WAY above my pay grade) I wouldn't put it out in public. We all know (well most everyone I guess) that "hits"
end up equating money in the grand scheme of things. Our galleries generate hundreds of thousands of hits, I'm sure that generates some kind of revenue. |
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