Oct
5
Heading into a (Canadian) long weekend, with a full reading list:
- CanWest revamps TV operations, cuts jobs. Canadian newspapers have, by and large, escaped the large-scale layoffs that have hammered some U.S. newsrooms. But one of the major TV networks is shedding 20 jobs as it makes the plunge into digital.
- Expanding the concept of “news”. Mathew Ingram’s points to a piece that deals with one aspect of the new mediascape: the redefinition of the word “news.” I’m not sure this is new: it’s only that the technology has ramped up something that was always there.
- A New Narrative Structure. Roy Peter Clark, after a session with Veronica Mars DVDs, bring us the umbrella — or perhaps bumbershoot — as a method for organizing our stories.
- Let’s stop putting the entire newspaper online. Howard Owens makes sense, as usual. Short version: take the web seriously for what it is and your print product improves, too.
- ICM Interview: Derek Willis, Washingtonpost.com. A must-read interview with journalism data guru Derek Willis, and not just for college educators.
- Toronto Star tries “daring” advertising pricing strategy. Interesting and potentially threatening to some newspaper sections: separate rate sheets for each section based on readership and demographics. (Is it just me, or do we not hear nearly enough about what’s happening at the nuts-and-bolts level on the business side?)
