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Kurt Greenbaum 45, Male
Chesterfield, United States

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Kurt Greenbaum commented on the blog post Newspaper bloggers — how do you promote? Jul 16
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Kurt Greenbaum added the blog post 'Is there any reason for embargoes to exist anymore?' Jul 11
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Kurt Greenbaum commented on the blog post Let's rebut the arguments against story comments Mar 25
Kurt Greenbaum commented on the blog post Let's rebut the arguments against story comments Mar 25
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What news organization do you work for?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Which of these best describes your day job?
Editor
About Me:
I'm the director of social media for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. My job has me involved in getting the P-D and our site, STLtoday.com, involved with social media, reader-generated content, online communities, etc.
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http://www.stltoday.com
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http://www.stltoday.com/vstl
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Is there any reason for embargoes to exist anymore?

I'm been a little hacked off this week by two cases of embargoes being imposed on stories, meaning they would essentially appear in print before they could appear online -- even though the news occurred the day before (obviously). One was involving the release of census information. Obviously imposed by the Census bureau. And maybe I'm exaggerating. The embargo might have been midnight, so it could appear online before in print -- but, effectively, it's the same thing. At that hour, the online… Continue

Posted on July 11th, 2008 at 8:27am — 4 Comments (Add)

Let's rebut the arguments against story comments

OK, hopefully I'm not the only one working on implementing story comments on our newsroom's web site. If you're game, I'd love to hear all the excuses you've heard about why you shouldn't have story comments on your site -- and what arguments you've used to rebut them. Heck, I'd even love to hear the unrebutted excuses, and maybe we can all figure out the rebuttal. Favorites so far: "Why are we doing this, anyway? What's the reason?" "Sources will be reluctant to talk to us if they can be savag… Continue

Posted on March 16th, 2008 at 7:08pm — 12 Comments (Add)

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At 10:23am on February 5th, 2008, Amanda St. Amand said…
I figure another place to learn/share/kvetch cannot be a bad thing.
At 12:49am on January 27th, 2008, Kleske said…
hey Kurt, long time no see. hope all is well with you.
At 4:32pm on January 23rd, 2008, Damon Kiesow said…
Kurt - by and large people are thrilled that their local paper has 'discovered' Twitter much as they have. So far it is working well for us - though I can not predict how that would scale to larger markets.
 
 

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