Dec
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A rather bleak start to the week on some media fronts.
- Newspapers eye extreme cuts as crisis grows. Alan Mutter sets up the week (he has another post coming today) with the suggestion that cutting days of publication is being talked about by more dailies.
- UK media set for thousands more job cuts-analysts. One analyst says as many as half the media jobs in England could go by 2013.
- What It Takes. The shorter version of Mark Potts’s latest: newspapers are still too focused on print to take a meaningful stab at online success.
- Crowdsourcing can lead newspapers through buyout blues. Faced with shrinking newsrooms, Daniel Victor writes, newsroom need to get more efficient with sourcing. Crowdsourcing, in fact. “All it would require is a sledgehammer to the institutional arrogance rooted deeply in the newspaper industry.”
- Is networked journalism more passive? Paul Bradshaw, who was asked that question at a forum last week, says no.
- I’m feeling lucky. Colin Mulvany’s latest dispatch from the frontlines of journalism in a stripped-down newsroom is required reading for its sense of reality and determination.
- From Staff Photographer to Freelancer: Making the Transition. Timely advice from Texas shooter Mark Hancock. Basic, rock-solid advice.
- What is…? A handy guide for the new media novice. This is so good. Go read, download, pass around, etc.
