Comments on: Alan Jacobson: ‘Why Orlando will fail’

By: Jim McBee

Jim McBee — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:54:25 +0000

So, how’s the OS doing these days? Has the redesign/re-editing started to show readership results, positive or negative? Have layoffs made the newsrooms shift harder or easier?

By: Douglas E. Jessmer

Douglas E. Jessmer — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:19:21 +0000

Farting rainbows AND sunshine? OK, let’s add the Lucky Charms cereal makers to the list.

By: Ken Carpenter

Ken Carpenter — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:53:51 +0000

When I asked a good friend, a national TV reporter based in Orlando, if he had seen the Sentinel’s redesign, he said, “No . . . is the journalism any better?”

Read my full post here

(Aside to former colleagues at the Sentinel — the paper looks great, but reading great will sell more papers!)

By: Jon Kleinow

Jon Kleinow — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:26:09 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t mean to divert the conversation. To contribute something positive:

Congrats to the entire Orlando design team on what certainly seems to be a successful, if exhausting, effort. I can’t get to the Newseum today, for some reason, but the live pages I’ve seen definitely look like the ball got rolling in the right direction. Of course, in a way, the hard work is yet to come: Maintaining the new designs and new storytelling methods in the weeks and months to come. But I’m sure they’re up to the challenge.