England’s Daily Mail isn’t just a source of funny Internet posts, it’s also a veritable font of hysterical, nutso reporting about “epidemics” of child abuse, immigrati…
Here’s some sticker template for decorating the free copies of the Wail that you encounter in your life.
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 from a bright spot, as five of the 25 largest papers reported double-digit declines.
I consider that if the growth of citizen journalism remains unchecked, the news industries and consumers accessing the news stand to lose on various fronts. A consequence may be that declining standards of news production will reduce the value and credibility of news made available to the public.
Link: Verbal. | Citizen Photojournalism: Unsustainable Approaches to New Media
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 miles away.
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 that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.”
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 the actual text. That’s a basic function on a computer, and the iPad has a clever cut-and-paste function, but it doesn’t work here.
iPads and other technology may save media, but old-media standards are being left behind.
Link: High-tech media, old-style issues – latimes.com
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The former editor of House & Garden describes how she was laid off — and learned to love life again.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/magazine/28fasttrack-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The folding of the magazine was ruthless. Without warning, our world collapsed. No one was expecting it, though with five publishers in 10 years, we had our share of turmoil. I came to work on a Monday in 2007, went to the corporate offices for a meeting, had a different meeting, got the news and was told to have everything packed up by Friday. Security guards were immediately posted by the doors.
Attacks on the media along the border with the U.S. have resulted in what amounts to a news blackout.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/world/americas/14mexico.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Angry residents who witnessed the carnage began to fill the void, posting raw videos and photos taken with cellphones.
Jake Adelstein is the author of Tokyo Vice, a new book that chronicles the author’s crazy adventures as a crime reporter for Japan’s largest newspaper. During his 12 years at Yomiuri Sh…
I have a guarantee from someone up high in the Yamaguchi-gumi that they won’t touch my family. Their word is pretty solid. It’s a gentleman’s agreement that they’ll only kill me, which makes me feel better.
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 on is what your competitor is working on.
But what if watching your competitor becomes your whole story?
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 ad that looked, in part, like the front page of The Los Angeles Times, as the newspaper again tested the accepted limits on where ads can be published and how they can blur the boundary with news.
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,” said David Westin, the president of ABC News, as he explained the decision last week to jettison up to 400 staff members, a quarter of the news staff, in the coming months.
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 applied to these Web publications, and with what consequences for profitability?
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.
Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper. The past week’s controversy swirling around Apple’s ret
Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper.
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 a haven for journalists and publishers by offering some of the most aggressive protections for free speech and investigative journalism in the world.
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
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…
As journalism budgets continue to wither, some companies are taking aggressive action, but other smaller publications have had to let go of those efforts.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/business/media/15hearst.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Indeed, as many companies have cut newsroom budgets they are also scaling back on another of their civic duties: legal battles to gain access to government information.