Can a fragile media ecosystem survive the pandemic?
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-fate-of-the-news-in-the-age-of-the-coronavirus
Can a fragile media ecosystem survive the pandemic?
The coronavirus is likely to hasten the end of advertising-driven media, our columnist writes. And government should not rescue it.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-journalists-newspapers.html
The coronavirus is likely to hasten the end of advertising-driven media, our columnist writes. And government should not rescue it.
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
In Jones County, North Carolina, and many other places around the country, local journalism has just about dried up.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-future-of-democracy/what-happens-when-the-news-is-gone
In Jones County, North Carolina, and many other places around the country, local journalism has just about dried up.
As hedge funds take a greater role in newspaper chains, journalists at the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere are sending out an S.O.S.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/business/media/newspaper-reporters-hedge-funds.html
As hedge funds take a greater role in newspaper chains, journalists at the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere are sending out an S.O.S.
In a recent piece by David Carr in The New York Times, he details a nerve-wracking, agonizing management move, where everyone at a newspaper in New York’s Westchester County was made to reapply for their jobs. Some got rehired. Some didn’t. That is, they were fired in an around-the-bend manner. Obviously, for those let go, that stings. But what caught my eye were the comments from those who survived, who made the cut. Even for those who’d kept their jobs, the mood was grim. Some were disgusted. Bitter. Afraid, in days ahead, to make waves. Not a great way to work. Not a great way to put out a paper. As one staff writer put it, “I don’t feel like a winner even though I still have my job.” As another admitted, “Everyone in our business has to live with this uncertainty going forward.”
A Times reporter, David Rohde, and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban in 2008 and held for seven months in Pakistan. This is the first installment in a five-part series offering his account.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html
Living side by side with the Haqqanis’ followers, I learned that the goal of the hard-line Taliban was far more ambitious. Contact with foreign militants in the tribal areas appeared to have deeply affected many young Taliban fighters. They wanted to create a fundamentalist Islamic emirate with Al Qaeda that spanned the Muslim world.
I had written about the ties between Pakistan’s intelligence services and the Taliban while covering the region for The New York Times. I knew Pakistan turned a blind eye to many of their activities. But I was astonished by what I encountered firsthand: a Taliban mini-state that flourished openly and with impunity.
The area of Pakistan where David Rohde, a Times reporter, and two Afghan colleagues were held for months was frequently hit by missiles fired from American drones.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/world/asia/21hostage.html
TWO deafening explosions shook the walls of the compound where the Taliban held us hostage. My guards and I dived to the floor as chunks of dirt hurtled through the window.
Ads alone are proving inadequate, and in the next several weeks, some publications are expected to take the plunge by erecting pay walls.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/business/media/28paywall.html
Newspapers, including this one, are weighing whether to ask online readers to pay for at least some of what they offer, as a handful of papers, like The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, already do. Indeed, in the next several weeks, industry executives and analysts expect some publications to take the plunge.
Reporters and news anchors rushed to earthquake-stricken Haiti, and professional reporting was supplemented with Twitter and cellphones.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/world/americas/15media.html
In some cases, reporters and anchors were arriving well ahead of international relief organizations. In other cases, they were hitching rides with them.
“Wherever you are,” Anderson Cooper of CNN said Wednesday night, “hug a loved one close and thank God you are not in Port-au-Prince tonight.”
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Under the terms of the debt takeover, Colony Capital will help Leibovitz market her photographs, the Financial Times reported.
The spill in the Gulf seems uncontainable, but the press is frustrated that information about it seems very much under control.
via Media Decoder Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/a-conflict-between-the-press-and-the-president-in-the-gulf-spills-into-view/
“I am here to tell you that you’re not alone. You will not be abandoned. You will not be left behind,” he said, but could not resist a sideswipe at the press corps in front of him. “The cameras at some point may leave; the media may get tired of the story; but we will not.”
Oops. The press corps in the gulf had been on the story for more than six weeks, often dealing with a tight-lipped disaster communications apparatus that seemed to be in the hands of BP rather than the government.
Deep within the treacherous terrain of the Uzbin Valley, young soldiers of the French International Security Assistance Force had a mission to fulfill: to take the valley, the same valley that saw a dozen French soldiers killed in an ambush by Afghan militants in August 2008. During the course of six months, the troops took the valley and every last village within, using what little mental and physical strength they had left. Not once during this time had they used their weapons, nor had they seen a Taliban. There had been an occassional attack upon them, but no one knew from where. Most days, the valley was hauntingly still, like a ghost, heightening the tension and fear of confrontation–as though scenes from Dino Buzatti’s “The Tartar Steppe” had come to life.
The Lighter Side, airing at the bottom of the hour during non-peak times, is already popular among viewers. Favorite segments so far include the story of a Ramallah teen who sat motionless in a freshly plowed pepper field for 10 days, believing himself to be in a minefield; that of a U.N.-sponsored airborne food-drop that leveled an entire Afghan village; and that of a large fig, produced on a farm outside Bahrain, which bears an uncanny resemblance to renegade Muslim cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr.
Under Sam Zell, the Tribune Company was bankrupted by debt, and employees describe a profane and alienating workplace.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/business/media/06tribune.html
The new management did transform the work culture, however. Based on interviews with more than 20 employees and former employees of Tribune, Mr. Michaels’s and his executives’ use of sexual innuendo, poisonous workplace banter and profane invective shocked and offended people throughout the company. Tribune Tower, the architectural symbol of the staid company, came to resemble a frat house, complete with poker parties, juke boxes and pervasive sex talk.
