[Journalists] Improvements to NFB Newsline

[David Andrews]

There is no easy way to do this, especially in an 
automated way. It would be too expensive to have 
humans look at all the print papers and transfer 
that information to NFB Newsline some how.

Dave

At 08:58 AM 4/28/2017, you wrote:
>Hello Liz. I don't think NFB Newsline should 
>rank stories by relevance. My point is that 
>since each newspaper sells their most relevant 
>stories on the front page, we should be able to 
>know which are the top stories. I don't mean 
>uploading pictures to the service, but showing 
>the titles on the front page. Enviado desde mi 
>iPhone > El 28 abr. 2017, a las 10:43, Elizabeth 
>Campbell via Journalists 
><journalists at nfbnet.org> escribió: > > Hi 
>Francisco, > > Thank you for sending this note 
>to our journalists list. > Others can weigh in 
>as well, but the purpose of Newsline has always 
>been to > provide blind people with free access 
>to news and other content without > 
>advertisements and worries about whether a 
>particular news site is > accessible. I don't 
>think Newsline should try to rank news in terms 
>of its > importance or to determine the 
>relevance of information as one can easily > see 
>how stories are performing by going to social 
>media sites such as > Twitter and Facebook which 
>list trending stories. > You asked about 
>replicating covers of publications. I am no 
>technical > expert, but newspapers provide 
>digital versions of their print editions in > 
>PDF format, and Newsline needs text files in 
>order to present information to > blind users. > 
>The Newsline staff has worked hard over the 
>years building relationships > with newspapers 
>and magazines to provide their content. > One of 
>he great features of Newsline is that one can 
>get updated information > throughout the day 
>with options such as the Associated Press, the 
>New York > Times online and McClatchy D.C. > I 
>use Newsline, and I also choose to subscribe to 
>several newspapers > including the one I work 
>for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the New York > 
>Times and the Washington Post. I do so via the 
>mobile apps. Remember that > Newsline is all 
>about providing information to the blind so that 
>we have > equal access to the news. > > I hope 
>this helps. > > > -----Original Message----- > 
>From: Journalists 
>[mailto:journalists-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>Behalf Of > Francisco Salvador Crespo via 
>Journalists > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 5:31 
>AM > To: journalists at nfbnet.org > Cc: Francisco 
>Salvador Crespo 
><crespofranciscosalvador at gmail.com> > Subject: 
>[Journalists] Improvements to NFB Newsline > > 
>Hello. > > I was thinking that, for us working 
>with media, it would be great that NFB > 
>Newsline would replicate the cover of the print 
>editions it hosts. It is > specially relevant to 
>know what's important on a certain publication 
>and to > measure how relevant a fact was for the 
>press. > Also would be great to see page 
>numbers. This will help us work in team with > 
>sighted colleagues. > I would like to hear your 
>opinions about this before sending suggestions 
>to > the Newsline team. > > Regards. > > Enviado desde mi iPhone