Apr
13
While trying to get caught up on my web reading, I have discovered these interesting pieces:
- Watershed Moments In The Publishing Industry’s Radical Transformation. Scott Karp ties together three recent announcements, none of them major, to show the state of the evolution. All three, he writes, are watershed moments.
- Design behaving badly. Mindy McAdams points to four newspaper sites that really need some design help. (Caution: Some of these made my eyes hurt.) Good studies in how-not-to.
- Our Outlook for the Media Sector. Stock analysts at Morningstar take a look at the U.S. industry and see some hope and some gloom. Includes this: “We don’t see a whole lot of compelling value in the market for newspaper stocks right now…”
- Beyond magical thinking. Alan Mutter takes on the idea that newspapers can work toward breaking even in print while hauling it on for online. (If there’s anyone writing on the business of newspapering better than Alan, I haven’t found them yet.)
- TV Shooters Posting on Web… An explanation for why we’re not seeing the same type of video storytelling from the TV folk that the newspaper shooters are providing: TV photojournalists are an almost invisible class.
- Are 18-24 year olds just not news consumers? Adrain Monck points to figures that show online news operations aren’t doing so well with the young folk either.
