• Holiday Attractions

    Weekly Travel Scorecard [10.03.10]

    As print newspapers fight to stay alive, travel sections lose pages and steadily increase service journalism while operating under more scrutiny than ever. In support of our paper/e-ink colleagues, here’s the Sunday print travel news that’s fit to post about. Most weeks, the New York Times travel section puts every other paper’s travel section to shame. On the basis of column inches alone, it is the Queen of newspaper travel sections. Lately, though, the Grey Lady seems to be struggling with an element that has never been more important than it is today, as attention spans are shrinking daily. I’m speaking, of course, of the intro or, in journalist-speak, the lede.…