Mar
18
Trying to get caught up on my internet reading has led me to these:
- Why Newspapers Can’t Be Saved, but the News Can. This NY Times piece is a nice re-cap of two important, recent, must-reads on media. If you don’t have time for the originals — Clay Shirky’s Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable and Steven Berlin Johnson’s Old growth media and the future of news — this will bring you up to date. But you really should read the originals. Related: It’s about the journalism, at The New Yorker.
- Nine Essentials (Besides a Camera) You’ll Need as a Freelance Photographer. Some nice, practical advice for those trying to make a living on their own, an increasingly large field, I suspect.
- Print industry to worsen before any improvements: experts. I suspect anyone who’s been half paying attention could have written that headline. Interestingly, this CBC piece cites “print industry experts,” and gives the first quote to a co-founder of Slate.com.
- The problem of pro-computer bias. Will Bunch points out the “radical reformers” of media — with whom he identifies — tend to forget “not everyone in American society is like them (or us).”
- Three Modest Proposals for Online Journalism’s Future. A very smart post from Micah Sifry. I’d rather read 10 posts of this type than one more woe-is-me lament from a print journalists about how he or she “needs” to be saved.
- The Great Seattle Advertising Experiment: What Will Happen to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Print Advertising Dollars? Scott Karp asks a pressing question in the wake of the Seattle PI going-on-line announcement. He missed a few possibilities, though, including the print advertising from the P-I going to neighbourhood-based print organizations. The advertising is at least as important to watch as the online efforts of the PI survivors. Related: Ken Doctor’s With Switch Flipped, PI Tests the Regional Aggregation Model.
Note: I have many more open browser windows. I may do a second press run later today.
