Category: Journalism

Newspaper Circulation Falls Nearly 9% Figures for the six months ended March 31 show that weekday sales declined 8.7 percent from the same period a year ago. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/business/media/27audit.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Among the 25 largest circulation newspapers, 10 had declines in weekday circulation of more than 10 percent. The Sunday circulation figures were slightly higher, though far…

Copy-Editing and Page Design, Done Far From the Hometown Three of Media General’s big papers will consolidate some tasks elsewhere in the South. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/business/media/12copydesk.html?partner=rss&emc=rss By this fall, readers who pick up their local newspapers in Richmond or Tampa will be seeing articles that have been edited and laid out by people more than 700…

Iraq Video Brings Notice to a Web Site With the release of a video of a U.S. assault on civilians, WikiLeaks edged closer toward a form of journalism. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/07wikileaks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss “That’s arguably what spy agencies do — high-tech investigative journalism,” Julian Assange, one of the site’s founders, said in an interview on Tuesday. “It’s time…

Backwards Steps by the WSJ and NYT on iPad The papers cripple everyday Web features in their apps for a walled-in environment via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/backwards_steps_by_the_wsj_and.php One big missing feature in the WSJ and NYT iPad apps: You can’t copy text. Take a screen cap of it all you want, but you can’t get…

Breaking the Story That Isn’t Reporters have always kept an eye on other reporters. But in the Internet age of instant publishing, what if watching your competitor becomes your whole story? Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/business/media/08carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Reporters have always kept an eye on other reporters. For a journalist, the only thing more interesting than what you are working…

A Cover Ad That Mimics a Newspaper’s Front Page The entire first page of The Los Angeles Times on Friday was an ad for the film “Alice in Wonderland” that was designed, in part, to look like the front page. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/business/media/06paper.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The entire first page of The Los Angeles Times on Friday was an…

Network News at a Crossroads As ABC News prepares to cut hundreds of jobs and with news available more places than ever, the future for network news divisions is deeply insecure. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/business/media/01network.html?partner=rss&emc=rss “I just looked out at the next five years and was concerned that we could not sustain doing what we were doing,”…

Magazines and Their Web Sites A Columbia Journalism Review survey and report via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/magazines_and_their_web_sites.php Among the questions the Columbia Journalism Review survey asked: What fact-checking and copy-editing standards apply to magazine Web sites, if any? Who oversees the editorial content of online material, and with what consequences? And what business model is…

Iraqi journalist sees threats to press freedom Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022505730.html?wprss=rss_world As Operation Iraqi Freedom draws to a close, Khadum is finding that the brand of freedom the United States ushered in is at best tenuous, at worst a temporary illusion.

A Vision of Iceland as a Haven for Journalists The country is weighing legislation offering reporters and publishers aggressive protections for free speech and investigative journalism. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/business/media/22link.html?partner=rss&emc=rss A banking scandal nearly bankrupted this tiny island nation (population: barely 300,000) little more than a year ago, but Iceland is considering a new vision: to become…

Record Number of Journalists Killed in 2009 At least 71 journalists were killed across the globe in 2009, the Committee to Protect Journalists announced Tuesday. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/world/17journalists.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Reporter fired for trying to be objective Jonathan Springston, a senior reporter for the Atlanta Progressive News, was fired from the online news service because, according to an email from the site’s editor to Creative Loafing magaz… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/16/reporter-fired-for-t.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29