Category: Journalism
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The Fate of the News in the Age of the Coronavirus | The New Yorker
The Fate of the News in the Age of the Coronavirus 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?
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Bail Out Journalists. Let Newspaper Chains Die. – The New York Times
Bail Out Journalists. Let Newspaper Chains Die. 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.
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The 2020 Election Will Be a War of Disinformation – The Atlantic
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President 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
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What Happens When the News Is Gone? | The New Yorker
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. 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.
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Worried Reporters Make a Plea: Please Buy Our Paper – The New York Times
Worried Reporters Make a Plea: Please Buy Our Paper 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.
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Held by the Taliban – A Five-Part Series by David Rohde
7 Months, 10 Days in Captivity (Published 2009) 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…
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A Reporter's Life: Morale/Are You Happy Now? – The Digital Journalist
Link: 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…
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Report: Majority Of Newspapers Now Purchased By Kidnappers To Prove Date
Link: “These are sick, sick individuals,” Ridell added. “God bless them for saving our industry.”
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Held by the Taliban. Part Four – A Drone Strike and Dwindling Hope
A Drone Strike and Dwindling Hope (Published 2009) 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…
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Media Outlets Prepare to Charge for Content Online – NYTimes.com
Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites (Published 2009) 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,…
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With Resources Limited, the Media Struggle to Convey Disaster – NYTimes.com
Media Struggle to Convey a Disaster (Published 2010) 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…
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Imagine: Journalist for Nintendo DS
Rakuten UK: Shop Cashback deals on the best offers & savings Rakuten Link: http://www.play.com/Games/DS/4-/10537828/Imagine-Journalist/Product.html?source=9593 Start as a columnist for a local newspaper and end up as an international reporter, heading your own TV show Get your own press pass Have fun with the full range of journalists’ accessories: notepad, handheld recorder, mic, camera Catch your…
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How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?
The Onion | America’s Finest News Source. The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America’s finest news source. via The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FDEATH_OF_NEWSPAPERS_ARTICLE_2_26.jpg&videoid=101088&title=How%20Will%20The%20End%20Of%20Print%20Journalism%
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Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere
The Onion | America’s Finest News Source. The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America’s finest news source. via The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FBULLSHIT_STORY_ARTICLE_3_5_10.jpg&videoid=101180&title=Breaking%20News%3A%20Some%20Bullshit%20Happening%20S Under the terms of the debt takeover, Colony Capital will help Leibovitz market her photographs, the Financial Times reported.
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CNN drops AP wire service – Yahoo! News
Link: 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…
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A Conflict Between the Press and the President in the Gulf Spills Into View – Media Decoder
A Conflict Between the Press and the President in the Gulf Spills Into View 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.…
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Al-Jazeera Introduces 'Lighter Side Of The News' Segment
Link: 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…
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At Sam Zell’s Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture – NYTimes.com
At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture (Published 2010) 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…
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Dumenco: Huffington Post’s summary of popular Ad Age story drove just 57 page views
Ad Age Simon Dumenco says he has a case study to back up his criticism of The Huffington Post’s “une