Mar
10
(Note: I am not linking to various future-of-the-newspaper panel discussions because it’s more more fun, and illuminating, to watch what newspapers are doing.)
- What is Bad for Newspapers Might be Good for the World…. A cogent argument that a better-educated populace is the trade-off for newspapers’ inability to charge for content, from Dave Cohn.
- Behind the Incredibly Shrinking Media. Paul Armstrong, the man between the @themediaisdying tweet tag, has a Business Week column offering some words of advice on what newspapers need to do.
- Bring on the techies: How Silicon Valley can help save newspapers. More advice, this from Nathan Richardson, CEO of ContextNext Media.
- Paid circulation: Then and Now. A chart (PDF form) from AdAge showing that 20 of the top 25 American dailies have suffered circulation drops, some of them huge, from 1990 to 2008. A reminder that while the current crisis is economic, behind it are the long-term woes that newspapers have been facing, including decades-long declining circulation.
- Boston Globe shuts down weekly sports tab. It lasted about six months. On to the next idea.
- Memo to the new P-I: Don’t look back. Alan Mutter, who has been raked over some coals for a couple of recent columns suggesting newspapers could *gasp* charge for content, has a nice set of ideas here for the Seattle P-I folk if they wind up being an online only newspaper.
- Two for the knowledge folder. 7 editing tips for videojournalists has some strong tips for shooting and Great advice for recording clean voiceovers is just that.
