Mar
30
Wrapping up a weekend full of project work with a little, light surfing and blogging.
- The tech world’s lesson for newspapers, traditional media. Tech reporting, writes Timothy B. Lee, is better than ever because of its mix of pro journalists, experts, engaged audience and online delivery. And, he argues, the same forces mean that journalism, overall, will get better even if it means fewer folk specifically employed as journalists.
- Conversations: Am I Missing Something? Help! Who, Richard Koci Hernandez wants to know, is actually working on new business models for newspapers. Anyone?
- The Carnival of Journalism must go on! Journerdism is this month’s host and there is much, much reading there.
- Can You Trust The Media? – the basic outline. Adrian Monck with a few details on his new book. I’ve gotta get me one of these.
- The problems with repurposing journalism. And, speaking of books, Alfred Hermida has some bones to pick with part of Principles of Convergent Journalism, particularly in its dealing with repurposing.
- Of fly eyes and newspaper revenues. Amid the doom and gloom of recent reports on tumbling ad revenues, Chris Anderson tells a different story: the newspaper industry is still huge and there’s a lot of money there. Well worth reading.
- Newspaper revenue crisis mounts. Notwithstanding the above, Alan Mutter has it right: “If sales continue deteriorating at the same dismaying rate for the balance of the year, the resulting revenue crisis will threaten the economic viability of the financially weakest and most debt-ridden newspapers – and the journalistic mission of nearly all of them.”
- Remembering Dith Pran. I’ve been re-reading Sydney Schanberg’s The Death and Life of Dith Pran today and am socuring my bookshelves for Pran’s own book. Some of what he meant to journalists is nicely captured in this Poynter column.
