Geneva Overholser over at OJR wrote a nice little post on the innovative spirit at the Las Vegas Sun, one of my favorite local sites in the country. The dead tree version of the Sun is a small paper. But the Sun’s site can go toe-to-toe with anybody. We’ve written before about some of the great things they do there–the design is clean and friendly, the weather section is great, their video is HD and downloadable, and have you seen the History of Vegas section? It’s fantastic.
The attitide that leads to this kind of innovation has to start at the top. And according to what the managing editor told Overholser, that’s how it is at the Sun. Their site is a great example of how the web levels the playing field for everybody: the size of your legacy operation doesn’t matter. Hire smart people, give them the right tools, and turn them loose–and your local site can run with anybody.