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“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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Yesterday in my post about Radio National I tentatively suggested that a new media strategy for the national broadcaster might mean more than new delivery platforms. That it might mean a rethink of how the content is conceived and created.The point doesn’t only apply to the ABC, of course. The same is true of all [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]