Newspapers
1. Journalism is not dying. Changing, yes.
2. Newspapers, as an industry, are not going away. Changing, yes.
3. Ink on paper will eventually die. Hand-illuminated manuscripts on parchment did, too.
4. It has never been about bloggers vs. journalists.
5. Not all of the smart people are in newsrooms.
6. Both the critics and curmudgeons have important, but you [...]
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My first reaction to news that some Dallas Morning News editors will now be reporting to sales-oriented GMs, was positively Munch-ian (or positively Caulkin-ian, for younger readers; either way, you get the idea).
If you haven’t heard about it yet, you can find some details here. Briefly, the News has decided that editors of sports, entertainment, [...]
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It’s no secret that newspaper circulation is in long-term decline.
It’s also no secret, at least within the business, that newspaper auditing organizations have made a number of moves over the years to: (a) more accurately reflect how many people are buying newspapers (their version); or (b) cover the fact that the decline is continuing (a [...]
My reaction to a spate of recent conferences on the future of media may have been a little uncharitable, a brusque thought aimed at media and newspapers in particular: Get over it and get on with it.
As I said, uncharitable. Because these are tough times to be in the newsroom, with those vacant desks and [...]
(See bottom of post for updates.)
As I watch the lusciously designed, mainly Western European newspapers roll out at Juan Antonio Giner’s What’s Next: Innovations in Newspapers, I keep wondering what effect something like i would have on urban newspaper sales in North American cities.
i, according to Giner, is something newish: a daily newsmagazine. As you [...]
(Update: It occurred to me this afternoon, while going over some of the data from the NADBank study with my students, that there’s a serious weakness in the polling, which results in an under-reporting of daily newspaper readership in some Canadian cities. None of their figures, as far as I can determine, include ethnic media. [...]
A few things we all really need to keep in mind.
• The death of several newspapers does not equal the death of all newspapers.
• Economies go in cycles, up and down. When they go down, newspapers suffer along with everyone else.
• The crisis for big newspaper chains is much more related to the mountains of [...]
I no longer have a kneejerk, no-government-money-for-media stance. It doesn’t make much sense when you consider how much support newspapers in particular have received over the years: special mailing rates, lucrative government advertising (mandated by legislation), shared job-training programs, etc.
But I’m still agin ‘em at the moment. All of them, including the $30 million the [...]
Here’s what the Canadian federal budget says about the $30 million it will provide for newspapers and magazines over the next two years:
Community Newspapers and Magazines
Canadians continue to look to local magazines and publications to see reflections of themselves and their communities. Budget 2009 will continue this tradition by providing $30 million over the next [...]
It’s always possible (although highly unlikely, I think) that online newspaper will be able to return to the walled garden and start charging for access to “their” information. It may even be possible that Google, Yahoo and the other aggregators and search folk will have to start ponying up something.
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