February 25, 2009 – 11:24 am
Along with just about everyone else who cares about journalism, I like to think of it as a public good. On this I base the claim that we should worry and think about the decline of newspapers as the biggest employers of journalists.
The idea of journalism as a public good is what has led the [...]
February 11, 2009 – 1:54 am
So how much would you be prepared to pay for the content you receive in your daily newspaper? How much would your friends pay? Something? $2? $5?
Or would you pay for something else – some other kind of news content?
Waddya reckon?
This question is spurred by a so-called “grassroots” attempt to tout for newspapers in the [...]
January 29, 2009 – 6:21 pm
Jonathan Este, the man who is running the Future of Journalism project for the journalists’ union, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, has an interesting article over at Inside Story. He suggests that we may be about to see a return of the media moghul, and he quotes some more optimistic than usual analyses of [...]
January 28, 2009 – 8:32 am
There isn’t much room for humour in newspaper land at the moment. It tends to be a miserable place. Thank Gawd, then, for the blitz spirit of our colleagues in Britain. Journalism.co.uk has put together this amusing list of 30 things you might miss in a world without newspapers.
Kitty litter liners, fish and chip wrappings, [...]
January 23, 2009 – 9:15 am
Yesterday came news that a leading US media analyst has cut his 2009 earnings forecast for the global News Corporation and believes the media company could see a 50 per cent fall in profits this financial year.
Now I hear that on Friday of next week there will be a top level meeting of the Australian [...]
January 12, 2009 – 11:23 am
More evidence of woe from newspaper land in the USA. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is for sale after losing $14 million last year. Hearst Corporation has said it will stop printing the newspaper and make it a low cost online outfit if no buyer is found within 60 days. The Bloomberg’s story is here.
In Australia, plenty [...]
January 9, 2009 – 4:11 pm
Dave Morgan, founder of MediaPost Publications has written an interesting blogpost titled “My Last Column on the Newspaper Industry”, which is really a treatise on what he reckons went wrong with US newspapers’ attempts to transfer their success online.
Some quotes:
I no longer believe that the industry is very relevant to the future and things [...]
January 1, 2009 – 12:21 pm
“Journalists are white collar pros with blue collar myths. They romanticize anyone who can resolve the contradiction.”
Jay Rosen said this on Twitter this morning (our time). Rosen, of course, is the New York University academic who founded the civic journalism movement and who has written much of what’s worth reading about media futures. You can [...]
December 31, 2008 – 4:04 pm
More news from the crisis in journalism.
Stanford University is re-deploying its famous mid-career Knight journalism fellowships to drive a shift towards innovation and entrepreneurship.
The Fellowship website states:
“The program is transforming itself in order to serve the needs of journalism and journalists as much in the years ahead as it has in the past. The dizzying [...]
December 31, 2008 – 1:00 pm
A while ago now I wrote this post responding to an article by Dr Sally Young.
Now Young has responded, and I have responded to her. Read the comments.
I think it is an interesting conversation, and I’m hoping others join in.
