Megan garber: “Bloomberg’s Norman Pearlstine and Hearst’s Steven Swartz (with the New Yorker’s James Carey) are currently at Columbia’s J-School, speaking about—yes—the future of newspapers. I’ll be—yes—Twittering the event here. Engaging, in the process, I’m sure, in several more media clichés.”

From Australian Newsagency blog: “Newsagents say that with publishers wanting to get into more and more non-newsagent outlets they are less likely to see newspapers as a core product in their newsagencies”.

A few days ago I criticised Lisa Pryor for this line in her opinion piece: “that is what reporters do; they write news stories from a range of perspectives”. Today, she has responded with a fulsome explanation of what she means by ‘perspectives’. Lisa explains, for instance: For all the balance and objectivity, the very [...]

In an excellent article in the current issue of Atlantic, Michael Hirschorn makes the point that serious newspaper journalism has been under threat since well before the Internet came along: But the business strategy of TheNew York Times, as practiced since Abe Rosenthal’s editorship in the early ’70s, when New York magazine first threatened the [...]

This interpretation comes from Lisa Pryor in the SMH today: As a former property reporter, I know a bit about this tax. I have written news stories about the injustice of it, because that is what reporters do; they write news stories from a range of perspectives, including those they disagree with. But with my [...]

Once again a presidential election seems to have been a boost for the Internet, but it’s not clear from this report how much of that Internet coverage that attracts people is actually newspapers and other traditional media moved to the web: The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has [...]

With the recession forcing a faster pace of change on the newspaper industry, there is speculation that a deal with Google might be the only alternative to a Murdoch takeover:  For one, John Ellis at RealClear Markets said earlier this year the Sulzbergers would run into the arms of Google to avoid any takeover from [...]

Grave predictions, made during the recent economic boom, that newspapers would last only another few decades are starting to look real rosy.   The US recession may be hastening the decline, and even ringing the death knell, of the newspaper industry: According to the Financial Times: “The recession has turned the long, slow decline of [...]

Bloggers love to speculate about the death of the media and the death of journalism. They’ve been doing it for years. Big-time bloggers, Jeff Jarvis and Dave Winer, are at it again. A new round of speculation, this time trying to envisage what our world would like if the media did actually die. Dave Winer, [...]

Interesting stuff on the impact of information overload from the CJR: Chief among the findings was that many young consumers craved more in-depth news but were unable or unwilling to get it. “The abundance of news and ubiquity of choice do not necessarily translate into a better news environment for consumers,” concluded the researchers in [...]