Comments on: 40,000 hits: why news websites should make more of cartoons (and infographics)

By: Peter Preston says cartoons don’t work online – oh yes they do | Wadds' PR Blog

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:19:47 +0000

[...] the MA Online Journalism at Birmingham City University’s (UK) School of Media. Last October Paul conducted an experiment to investigate the traffic potency of cartoons. His thesis was that news organisations should be [...]

By: Why don’t newspaper websites embed ads in cartoons? | Online Journalism Blog

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:28:49 +0000

[...] I’ve written previously, I think cartoons are massively overlooked in online news production. They have potential international appeal, are unique and – importantly – unlike text, when people [...]

By: 40,000 hits: why news websites should make more of cartoons (and infographics) - Amphibia Daily Links

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:17:38 +0000

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5 фази од животот на блогерот | К О М У Н И К А Ц И И — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:19:51 +0000

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By: Daily Links for October 14th | Akkam's Razor

Daily Links for October 14th | Akkam's Razor — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:00:22 +0000

[...] 40,000 hits: why news websites should make more of cartoons (and infographics) | Online Journalism B… – Images convey stories much better than words. [...]

By: Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:04:55 +0000

Thanks – that report sounds very useful for a project I'm working on around news engagement.

By: Vivian Vahlberg

Vivian Vahlberg — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:25:14 +0000

Your post about the power of cartoons online rings true with us here at Media Management Center — particularly when it comes to young people. We recently conducted in-depth interviews about political news online with 89 young people. One of the things we observed in our report, "From 'Too Much' to 'Just Right:' Engaging Millennials In Election News on the Web," (http://www.mediamanagementcenter.org/research/you...” target=”_blank”>http://www.mediamanagementcenter.org/research/youthelect...was that while young people were turned off by much of what they saw on election sites, they were delighted by the editorial cartoons they saw. Interestingly, a number of them were also surprised by the cartoons; they didn't seem to be aware that such cartoons have been staples of newspaper editorial pages for years.

By: Matt Wardman

Matt Wardman — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:14:16 +0000

>Andrew Keen decries the fact that The Evolution of Dance is the most popular video on YouTube. No, it’s not Shakespeare, but he’s missing the point. Missing points seems to be an Andrew Keen speciality. I've seen him writing about "page impression" as a measure of a site 2 years after the Newspaper Industry dumped them as useless.

By: Matthew Bennett

Matthew Bennett — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:49:17 +0000

of course!

By: El éxito de las historietas en la web | Sicrono

El éxito de las historietas en la web | Sicrono — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:16:17 +0000

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