Jay Small digs into memories of an old Preparation H commercial and wonders if going tabloid is really the answer to the questions plaguing broadsheet newspapers.
I realize such solid physical comedy does not translate well into this journal. But the point that made that joke funny also applies to a current business trend: newspaper publishers [...]
Ken Sands has been added to the roster of writers at Morph and his first post points to more big doings in Spokane, including plans to begin webcasting morning and afternoon news budget meetings for the Spokesman-Review. Also:
The (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review’s editors blog has been going for more than a year now, but comments on [...]
And so this is Dose. I came across this prototype of Dose, scheduled for launch here in Vancouver and in four other Canadian cities on Monday, lying on top of a news bin outside a local electronics store. I figure it’s either a sales rep’s sample that got away, or a stealth marketing campaign. Either [...]
Latest up in the manipulating-themselves-into-trouble sweepstakes is Harper’s, whose digitally altered cover photo of U.S. marines that illustratees an article on desertion.
Dan Gillmor has added to the death of newspapers debate, with A dying craft, or a dying business? and, like Jay Rosen’s Laying the newspaper gently down to die it’s required reading.
24 Hours, the latest free tabloid in Vancouver, has hit a little snag: it’s newsboxes have been removed from the streets by the city.
Jay Rosen has pulled together a number of threads and woven them into Laying the Newspaper Gently Down to Die. He examines the idea that the newspaper industry is in harvesting mode: reaping what profits it can as it dies.
Brave would be the media columnist who took a few months to investigate the unannounced liquidation [...]
The Washington Post is one of the premier newspapers in the U.S., with a distinguished history and a continued drive to quality journalism, in print and online. Despite that, it can’t survive the downward drift in circulation that is afflicting newspapers everywhere. Jim Romenesko reports:
Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. told his staff at [...]
At the Online Journalism Review, Nora Paul take a look at the promise and reality of newspaper use of the internet, going back to what was predicted 10 years and what’s happened with those predictions. Nora delineates the promises…
Limitless newshole
Give me more
Hyperlinking
Communication between reporter and reader
How I wrote the story
New expressive reporting styles
Follow-up on stories
New [...]
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