Contra Costa Times editor Chris Lopez writes in today’s paper – After Deadline -that he’s started a weblog to:
"…provide a window into the editor’s office of this newspaper and some insight into the thinking that leads to our front page and how the newspaper as a whole works."
He also reports that others at the Times have been and will be writing other blogs in the future. I also commend him for admitting that traditional newspapers are concerned about changes in the way people get their information. However, the Times is falling way behind – especially in an era when most the of stories I read in the Times I can find in other more accessible sources.
For example, I read the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle through my RSS reader – NewsGator. I can’t read the Contra Costa Times that way because they don’t provide a RSS feed. For a while I found a tool that let me "scrape" certain sections of the CCT site, but now that’s just too much work. [For the record I also subcribe to the paper version of the CCT]. The Times and the rest of the Knight-Ridder papers need to get on the RSS bandwagon.
For those of you who do use a RSS reader – I’ve figured out how to get the feed to this new information source – add this URL to your reader:
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