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Google’s Richard Gingras: We are at the beginning of a journalism renaissance
A Twin Cities turnaround? The Star Tribune carves a path back through growing audience
The Last Savior of Newspapers: Rich and Local Owners - Peter Osnos - Business - The Atlantic
Google’s Richard Gingras: 8 questions that will help define the future of journalism » Nieman Journalism Lab
72% of Americans Follow Local News Closely - Pew Research Center
Mobile and the news media's imploding business model | Michael Wolff | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Is a paywall coming to The Washington Post? - The Washington Post
Newspapers Are The Fastest Shrinking Industry In The U.S.
If you want to be a journalist, think online. Newspapers have shed a greater percentage of jobs since 2007 than any other industry in the United States, according to data published today by LinkedIn. That's not surprising, given how ad revenue in the newspaper industry has fallen off a cliff since 2000. LinkedIn has professional profiles from millions of users, and also is a big tool for recruiters, so it's got a ton of accurate data about jobs.Where’s the money coming from? Fresh Pew data on the uncertain economics of newspapers » Nieman Journalism Lab
It’s a story that wouldn’t exactly merit a “BREAKING” crawl on CNN: American newspapers aren’t in great financial shape . But a new report from Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism fleshes out that fact, showing that within the industry there’s quite a bit of diversity in how well newspapers are adjusting to the disruption of their business models. Pew found that, while some are doing better than others, the gap between digital and print revenues is still yawning , and that efforts at expanding the digital base — through daily deals, mobile advertising, or other experiments — are only slowly having an impact.After 18 months of work and countless pinky-shake vows of confidentiality, my colleagues at the Project for Excellence In Journalism have a fresh report out today on the newspaper industry’s search for a new business model . The report, “The Search For a New Business Model,” burrows inside newspaper organizations for fresh internal data and commentary by top executives. The PEJ effort drew six participating companies, providing data for 38 newspapers. Executives from seven more companies agreed to be interviewed on the findings, while keeping their data to themselves. Having contributed modestly to the planning with some suggested questions, I’ll leave it to others to summarize the findings .
News executives acknowledge ‘toxic’ cultural divide between print and digital | Poynter.
Call it creative if you want, but this is what economic destruction looks like. Print newspaper ads have fallen by two-thirds from $60 billion in the late-1990s to $20 billion in 2011. You sometimes hear it said that newspapers are dead. Now, $20 billion is the kind of "dead" most people would trade their lives for.
The Collapse of Print Advertising in 1 Graph - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic
2011 a year of record growth for latimes.com - latimes.com
A note to the staff from Managing Editor/Online Jimmy Orr: No better way to put it: 2011 was a remarkable year for journalism at the Los Angeles Times on the digital front. Not only did our overall readership soar by unparalleled numbers but we recorded significant growth in every major category.Investors acquired the newspapers in several major American cities in the second half of 2011, including The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Omaha World-Herald, The San Francisco Examiner and the 16 newspapers that made up The New York Times Company’s Regional Media Group . Seventy-one daily newspapers were sold in the United States last year, for a total “just under $800 million,” said Owen Van Essen, president of Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, a company that specializes in newspaper mergers and acquisitions. Investors included billionaires like Warren E. Buffett and Philip F. Anschutz, a newly created media company called Wrapports, and media investors like Halifax Media Holdings and the Black Press Group.
Behind Newspaper Deals, Web Ads and Real Estate - NYTimes.com
Food Network Executive to Run YouTube Food Channel - NYTimes.com
Electus, the multimedia studio formed by , the former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, will announce on Monday that it has recruited Mr. Seidel as chief executive of the channel, which has not been named. It is scheduled to start in July. The hiring of Mr. Seidel from a television channel is a coup because of what it says about the seriousness of YouTube’s effort to create an alternative to cable television on the Internet.CNN’s just-revamped iReport: Imagine all the data! » Nieman Journalism Lab
Today brings the launch of an overhaul of CNN’s iReport , the network’s platform for citizen journalism. As of today, iReport will look much less like a straight-up content site…and much more like a social network. One that, CNN.com participation director Lila King told me, “turns the site into something that’s focused on people far more than news stories.” For a good summary of the overall changes in iReport, check out Mallary Jean Tenore’s overview over at Poynter, which is chock full of detail about how the revamped site will run. Though the idea of a social network for citizen journalism — particularly one that exists within the confines of a sprawling cable news website — is intriguing, I’m especially interested in what the revamped iReport will offer CNN in terms of knowledge about its own audience and participants. The new site will focus on user profiles, a big part of that being the areas of interest and expertise that users have identified.AnnenbergTeam

