Sep
2
Here are some interesting stories gathered over the last couple of days:
- Google News – publisher! There’s been a lot of comment on what Google’s deal with syndicated news services really means. Adrian Monck figures it changes the rules of the game. Patrick Beeson sees it as part of the continuing death of wire services and a call to newspapers to replace the with their own work. William Hartnett says “meh.” And, Andy Dickinson and Mathew Ingram weigh in with a nice round-up of reactions.
- Print ad sales hit 10-year low. Alan Mutter’s latest look at the business side of newspapering, complete with a very scary looking graph. Jim Romenesko has a related piece, Ad revenue at newspapers fell 8.6% in April-June period.
- Survey Data Points to Need for New Thinking for Newspaper Publishers. More analysis of the unfolding media business scene, this time from Ben Compaine. He suggests that there may be value in publishers looking at at online newspapers as something different from the print version.
- Still Partying Like It’s 1999. Somewhat related to the above, as Mark Potts takes newspapers to task for an overly conservative-approach to the ‘net. Also related is Ryan Sholin’s wish to a way to track and preserve the good stuff he finds at newspaper web sites. I like his idea: it’s one way of keeping readers anchored to a particular site.
- Online Journalism Seminar Syllabus. Given the amount of work involved, I’m glad I’m not in this class at Berkeley. But I would hire one of its grads.
- 50 nifty. Here’s a gorgeous mashup from oh-so-talented photojournalist Melissa Lyttle: a Google Map showing the states she’s visited with a single, striking image from each.
