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The Reading Eagle launches a new website
The new home page of readingeagle.com I have heard lots of comments about the new readingeagle.com website, which launched early this morning, but one reaction has yet to come across my inbox: “Meh.”...
View ArticleClearing up misconceptions about accessing the Reading Eagle online
Since we started requiring subscriptions for full access to readingeagle.com, we’ve received lots of complaints. That’s expected. We can live with it. But there has also been confusion about how the...
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Today in interactive journalism
Sometimes newsprint just isn’t enough. I’m sorry to say that, but it’s true. Take, for instance, today’s lead story in the Reading Eagle. Liam Migdail-Smith wrote a comprehensive story about the work...
View ArticleThe battle between old media and new media rages on
Kara Swisher, co-executive editor of the tech news site Re/code, told a panel on Wednesday that the old media — presumably newspapers, magazines and other dead-tree forms of publication — wishes the...
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Social media rallies around newspaper targeted in terror attack with...
(AP PHOTO/Michel Euler, File) In this Sept.19, 2012 file photo, Charb , the publishing director of the satyric weekly Charlie Hebdo, displays the front page of the newspaper as he poses for...
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On the Internet, check your temper lest you become a laughingstock
Kirby Delauter, a Maryland politician who became an Internet laughingstock. I will admit: I was tempted to use the name of the now-famous Kirby Delauter in the headline for this piece. I’m sure it...
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Charlie Hebdo’s triumphant return
A man leaves after buying the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo newspaper as people queue up at a newsstand in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) At last, the publication that few...
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Shock turns to “aww” for once-controversial photo of a man holding his dog
Shamel English rocks his 2-year-old dog, Gemini, in his arms after she passed away from a fire at 325 Windsor St. in Reading. “She was more than a dog,” English said, “she was a part of our family.”...
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Viral ‘Amphibious’ newspaper headline is more depressing than funny
Anyone who has worked on a copy desk can understand how a mistake like this happens. Facebookland is all a-twitter and Twitter is all abuzz with the funny headline error of the day. I don’t know in...
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Latino Lunch series: La Casa Del Chimi
La Casa Del Chimi at Fourth and Franklin Streets in Reading. Whenever a restaurant is named after a food, you should, as a rule, try that food. That’s true whether you dine at a place like Uncle Ray’s...
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