December 30, 2008 – 6:37 pm
The Internet has now overtaken all media except television as a source of news, according to a study by the Pew Research Centre in the United States.
The study found that 40 percent of people got most of their news from the internet, up from just 24 per cent in September 2007. More people say they [...]
December 23, 2008 – 2:11 pm
Peter Fray, the new editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, is once again not answering his mobile phone, which saves us from another one of those conversations.
If he was talking, I would be asking the following questions. What is your understanding of your role? Whom do you answer to? How much of a free hand [...]
December 22, 2008 – 3:56 pm
When talking about the crisis in journalism, and newspapers in particular, it is really important, I think, to keep in mind what the crisis actually is. And what it is not.
The business model is what is collapsing. There is no evidence of a reduced appetite for news. On that note this article in the New [...]
December 22, 2008 – 3:01 pm
Inside Story, a new publication on which I have blogged before, has an interesting article by Sally Young, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, on changing habits in consuming news.*
I disagree with elements of Young’s essentialy pessimistic analysis. She says:”Even though we are spending more time with media today, we’re [...]
December 17, 2008 – 8:47 pm
Roy Greenslade reports on more newspaper misery in Canada.
December 5, 2008 – 2:05 pm
Before the wider Fairfax meltdown story broke this morning I was trying to find out who might replace Alan Oakley as Sydney Morning Herald editor.
Now it seems unlikely that anybody at Fairfax is applying serious thought to such things. IN fact the bigger question might be whether they will be able to persuade anyone to [...]
December 4, 2008 – 8:31 pm
What a rotten time to be an editor of a newspaper. This afternoon Sydney Morning Herald editor Alan Oakley either stepped down or was sacked, depending on who you listen to.
More on the implications of that later, but step back a moment and think about all the editors whose heads have rolled in the last [...]
December 4, 2008 – 3:00 pm
I was talking to a young journalist the other day who told me that she had recently gone out and organised herself a newspaper subscription – not because she needs it. She reads everything online. She did it because she felt sorry for newspapers, they were struggling so much. She wanted to support the medium [...]
December 3, 2008 – 2:56 pm
“We will never slash the journalism,” News Limited CEO John Hartigan told the audience at last Thursday’s Walkley Awards – and was cheered in return by an audience enjoying every jibe aimed at Fairfax.
But is it true? Hartigan acknowledged that “we will have to cut our cloth”, and now some details are emerging of exactly [...]
