May
4
Knocked back by a cold, surfing the ‘net:
- Pressed for cash. A New York Post exclusive report claims the Minneapolis Star Tribune is on the edge of bankruptcy due to its debt load. From the article: “The broadsheet is unlikely to shutter its doors, but its creditors, including the banking giant Credit Suisse Group, figure to eventually end up controlling the paper. Down the road, the creditor group could then sell it after dramatically cutting costs.” Via Rex Sorgatz.
- Student paper to go independent — and online. Faced with what they consider interference from Quinnipiac University administration, student journalists have decided they’ll go it alone and online. Print isn’t dead, but you don’t need a press any more.
- Black and white turned into gold. Nice thoughtful Guardian piece on full colour in newspapers, spurred by a visit to an exhibition of black and white photos.
- Five questions from another journalism student. Wonder what Paul Bradshaw thinks about newspapers and their future. His five answers sum it up nicely.
- Solid film this from Washington Post. David is right: this Travis Fox piece from the Washington Post (he has the link) is a stellar piece of in-depth reporting and a visual wonder. It’s a nice counterpoint to the argument that video should be short, made most recently by Angela Grant. Maybe we need a guideline that a video should be as long as it needs to be, and not one frame longer.
- Are we in danger of losing nibs? Roy Greenslade follows up on a prediction that “the form of writing most likely to die with the printed newspaper is the single-paragraph news story [because] no one is forced into that sort of concision on the web.” Somehow, I suspect the opposite: the art of the well-written nib fits well with the flood of information on the ‘net.
- Newspapers’ reverse-publishing idea flawed. Patrick Beeson not only explains why, but suggests what that means. What he writes makes sense.
