Category: Journalism
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Frayed Thread in a Free Society – washingtonpost.com
The biggest challenge facing America’s struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry. Check it out here.
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In Internet Age, Foreign Correspondents Have Local Audiences – NYTimes.com
It is a momentous, overlooked shift in the world: Foreign correspondents no longer cover one place for the exclusive benefit of readers somewhere else. In the Internet age, we cover each place for the benefit of all places, and the reported-on are among the most avid consumers of what we report. Check it out here.
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Sixty Days Photo: The P-I globe eclipsing the moon
I have always wanted to photograph a full moon behind our giant neon globe. The likely closure of this newspaper, last night’s full moon, the clear sky and a serious need for some solitude on the water prompted me to finally make that happen. Check it out here.
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Want To Know Why Newspapers Are Going Out Of Business? Because Adding Value Never Seems To Be An Option | Techdirt
What more could you have done? You could have competed more effectively. Owens complains about “substitute home pages,” where the Boston.com was trying to take away GateHouse’s readers. There’s a pretty straightforward response to that: if that’s all it takes to take away your community, you’ve failed your community. If the entire value of your…
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dvafoto › Newspaper Death Watch
somehow Newspaper Death Watch escaped my view. The site, created by long-time technology journalist Paul Gillin, chronicles the usually bad news about newspapers, and has been doing so since 2007 Check it out here.
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In Denver, Residents Lament the Closing of a Newspaper – NYTimes.com
“They want the amount of print you would find on a cereal box, which is what you get online,” said Mike Pearson, 49, a features writer and editor for The Rocky for 21 years. “They want headlines only and graphs that summarize everything without going into a lot of analysis. And they feel entitled to…
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{illtown}: here we go.
This post has been long overdue. Fitting I write about this on the day one of America’s best newspapers, the Rocky Mountain News, published it’s final edition. The economy and the newspaper business is in utter turmoil. Last month, I found myself on the wrong end of an involuntary staff reduction. I’ve got nothing to…
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WHO KILLED THE ROCKY? An electronic obit for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado.
Check it out here. Via dvafoto.
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The 37th Frame – Final Edition – The Rocky Ceases Publication
On February 27th, 2009 the Rocky Mountain News, 55 days short of its 150th birthday, closed. A 21 minute video feature about the closing of the paper appears on its website and is embedded below. Check it out here.
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PDNPulse: Twittering From the Titanic
We learned about the Rocky Mountain News’s closure first from a Twitter post. It was the kind of hot news that people immediately shared in their own one-sentence snippets. In Denver, Rocky reporters used Twitter to report their own company’s death announcement in real time. And why not? It’s the fastest way to report eye-witness…
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Crime Watch: Of Axes and Car Hackings
A few years ago, while hanging out at my future wife’s apartment, I opened a cupboard in her cramped bathroom. To be sure, this is not a habit of mine, and I can’t recall my exact motivation. What I found hanging in this cupboard above the toilet, however, made me uneasy: a small ax. …
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Information Wants to Be Expensive – WSJ.com
With newspapers in cities across the country on the brink, an old idea is being resurrected in the hope of saving them: They should charge for access to their journalism on the Internet. This is a great idea, but about 10 years late. Check it out here.
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Politkovskaya Suspects Walk Free
A jury on Thursday acquitted three men charged in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, winning praise from Politkovskaya’s family for not accepting what they called a poorly investigated case. Check it out here.
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Owner of Philadelphia's major daily papers latest to file for bankruptcy protection
“This restructuring is focused solely on our debt, not our operations,” chief executive officer Brian P. Tierney said in a statement. “Our operations are sound and profitable.” Check it out here.
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Why newspapers can’t stop the presses
Contrary to some of the ill-informed articles you might have read lately, almost every newspaper company still needs to print newspapers if it wants to stay in business. Check it out here.
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1981 TV Report On Birth Of Internet News
“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to see the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.” Check it out here. Via TechCrunch.
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The Renegades at the New York 'Times' – The All New Issue — New York Magazine
On the day Barack Obama was elected, a strange new feature appeared on the website of the New York Times. Called the Word Train, it asked a simple question: What one word describes your current state of mind? Readers could enter an adjective or select from a menu of options. They could specify whether they…
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Few in U.S. See Jazeera’s Coverage of Gaza War
In a conflict where the Western news media have been largely prevented from reporting from Gaza because of restrictions imposed by the Israeli military, Al Jazeera has had a distinct advantage. It was already there. Check it out here.
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End Times – The Atlantic (January/February 2009)
If you’re hearing few howls and seeing little rending of garments over the impending death of institutional, high-quality journalism, it’s because the public at large has been trained to undervalue journalists and journalism. The Internet has done much to encourage lazy news consumption, while virtually eradicating the meaningful distinctions among newspaper brands. The story from…