Friday, June 6th, 2008
The publisher of the Tribune Company sent out a memo to his staff that said, in short, the current newspaper model is broken, it doesn't serve the readers and the industry needs to rethink itself.
Sam Zell, the man behind the memo, isn't a journalist. He's a billionaire investor. He's not ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
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I'm not a big finance guy so I've never been keenly attracted to the business pages of a newspaper, but I can see the value in having a strong editorial presence.
In a modern world, it's important to rethink how newspapers cover business.
I've written a bit about what the ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
The story of the demise of the Washington Post's big "experiment" with hyperlocal content is going to matter to exactly one group of people: reporters.
But I fear that the story will be framed in the way The Wall Street Journal (normally my favorite paper to read because of it's writing) ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
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Ever since I wrote the link journalism post a few days ago, I've had an idea percolating in my head. I'm not sure that it's fully formed, but I wanted to get it out into the wild because I have a feeling there are those who have already ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
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I've always rejected the notion that my generation -- and the ones behind me -- are less interested in reading and have short attention spans when it comes to the news.
I've found that logic to be condescending and arrogant, telling people that they are consuming their news and ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
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Newspapers are facing a serious problem. The more publishers are looking at their bottom lines the more they are seeing this: shrinking black on the print side and a large red on the web side.
But that's not always going to be the case, I hear people ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
"The canary in the coal mine."
That's how Jeff Jarvis describes the Twitter-verse in relationship to news organizations. He's thesis: every news agency should be using this type of service -- the mobile network where people can distribute 140-character messages to large groups of readers via text message -- to track ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
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Newspapers have a reader problem. And they have a Reader problem.
It's no secret that news organizations face declining readerships, prompting layoffs and corporate restructuring. For many in the industry, the end must seem near.
But it's never the pitfall you expect that gets you. You're prepared for those and ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
I've been talking business model a lot lately. More than I'd like to since I'm trying to focus my thinking on solutions to the newsroom and not solutions to the publisher's room.
Unfortunately, those two are long past being separated. So let's just do this a little more.
I constantly here from ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
We've been having a little discussion at The Modern Journalist NING social network pitting the database reporting I've proposed in Newspaper 2.0 versus traditional, beat-the-bushes reporting done by the Ameican media.
Of course, I am a part of the American media -- or I was -- for 14 years before I ...
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