SFN report: More than 166 U.S. newspapers have closed or stopped. Since 2008, more than 166 newspapers in the United States have closed down or stopped publishing a print edition, according to Paper Cuts, SFN's Million Dollar Strategies for Newspaper Companies reported. More than 39 titles did so in 2008, and the number rose to 109 in 2009. So far in 2010, more than 18 papers have closed down or stopped publishing a print version. According to Paper Cuts, there have been nearly 35,000 job losses or buyouts in the U.S. newspaper industry since March 2007.
From March to December 2007, more than 2,256 newspaper jobs have been reportedly eliminated or offered buyouts. The numbers increased to more than 15,992 in 2008 and were at more than 14,783 in 2009. As of May 2010, there have been more than 1,797 job losses or buyouts in newspaper companies in the country, according to the report, Million Dollar Strategies for Newspaper Companies, released by SFN and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
Inside five newsrooms that H.L. Mencken wouldn’t recognize » Nie. Making media social: news as user experience. I live in Austin, Texas, and teach at Texas State University, a short drive down I-35 in San Marcos. One thing I look forward to every year with great anticipation is the annual South By Southwest conference that happens in mid-March. Many are aware of the gigantic music festival associated with this event, but a smaller group of tech and media aficionados know about the fantastic Interactive gathering that occurs just before the musicians come to town. It is, by far, the most important event my students and I attend each year. Emerging topics at SXSW quickly become the “next big thing” within a few years. While attending SXSWi this year, an emerging theme that I noticed was that of User Experience (UX). But, more and more frequently, when UX is discussed, it is about what users can do online.
First, it may be helpful to understand what the user experience might look like for a news site. What expertise is your organization gaining with these new roles? New York Times R&D Group: Newspaper 2.0. Death-notice price gouging: Why? Sure, newspapers are hard up, but exploiting bereaved families with exorbitantly priced death notices seems to be a distasteful and strategically inept way to try to make ends meet.
I stumbled across the problem this week when I tried to buy a death notice in my local paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, which proposed charging $450 for the one-day run of a crappy-looking, 182-word death notice. Instead, I decided, with the consent of my friend’s widow, to donate the money to a college fund for their four children. But she and I remain appalled that the Chronicle would do this to families at the moment of their most exquisite grief. Chronicle management did not respond to a request for comment. Newspapers, like funeral directors, know they can charge whatever they want when someone dies, because it’s not a time that people are in a state of mind to hunt for bargains.
In most communities, there is only one paper to choose from, so there is no other option, anyway. So everybody wins. 10 Reasons Why News Organizations Should U. On a news organization’s list of priorities, publishing articles as “linked data” probably comes slightly above remembering to turn the computer monitors off in the evening, and slightly below getting a new coffee machine. It shouldn’t, and I’ll share 10 reasons why. Before I do, I should briefly explain what I mean by “linked data.” Linked data is a way of publishing information so that it can easily — and automatically — be linked to other, similar data on the web.
For example, if I refer to “Paris” in a news article, it’s not immediately apparent to search engines whether that is Paris, France or Paris, Texas, or Paris Hilton or another Paris entirely. If published in linked data, Paris would be linked to another reference point that would make clear which one it referred to (e.g. the entry for Paris, France on dbpedia, the structured data version of Wikipedia). Until a short while ago, I was reasonably clueless as to both the meaning and the value of linked data. 10 Reasons. RMG to Brand 850 Screens as the NYTimes.com Today Network - NYTi. No solution to newspaper problems? Hah! Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism a. April 6th, 2009 Drop what you’re doing and take 30 minutes to listen to Brooke Gladstone’s interview with Lee Rainie for the latest edition of On the Media . The two discuss the results of the Pew Center’ s latest survey on the future of the Internet.
No, not even 600 “experts” can predict the future. But the discussion of the trends, implications and opportunities that will evolve in the digital age is insightful and, at least to an optimist like me, inspiring. Among the highlights: The Internet will become completely ubiquitous. If you’re thinking about the future of journalism, here’s the place to start. The answers to these questions are based largely on your experience, expertise and the opportunity around you (geographically or topically). ShareThis You can skip to the end and leave a response.
Report Proposes New Steps to Support Quality Public Affairs Repo. The speech the NAA should hear « BuzzMachine. The Newspaper Association of America is meeting in San Diego this week and they’re preaching up at their own choir loft with angry, self-righteous fire and brimstone about their plight. Today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt will address them, but he’ll be polite because that’s the way he is and because there’ll be a few hundred aging but armed publishers with blunderbusses aimed at his heart.
They need to hear a new message, a blunt message from the outside. Here’s the speech I think they should hear: You blew it. You’ve had 20 years since the start of the web, 15 years since the creation of the commercial browser and craigslist, a decade since the birth of blogs and Google to understand the changes in the media economy and the new behaviors of the next generation of – as you call them, Mr. And now you’re angry.
But you’re the ones who are acting angry. Yesterday, you delivered a foot-stomping little hissy fit over Google and aggregators. So what can you do? The "Lack of Vision" thing? Well, here's a hopeful vision. So you're on an ocean liner and it sinks. Step No. 1 is: Tread water. Step No. 2: Grab the first floating thing that happens by. That's where the newspaper industry is located today -- desperately grabbing at whatever debris is available, looking for one thing (or several smaller things) with sufficient buoyancy to support its ponderous, monopoly-bloated weight. And there's nothing wrong with that. When you're drowning, stop drowning first and THEN think about how to get to dry land.
Clinging to wreckage isn't a plan. It isn't even survival. I've been writing about the inevitability of this change for some time, and I'm now officially fed-up with the daily round of nostalgic, whiny defeatism. Nothing lasts forever. Oh, please. The path to an abundant and meaningful future isn't backwards or sideways -- but ahead, into the new. OK, That Was A TeaseBefore I pitch my idea, I want to make sure you get the context first, and it begins with Kurzweil's Law:: Restated? Got a problem? The old way: Maya Baratz: In the App Economy, Newspapers are Apps. In this past fall's Web 2.0 Summit conference, Mark Pincus, CEO of social gaming startup Zynga, declared Web 3.0 the "app economy" - a web in which people use apps to consume and share things, the way we do using Facebook and the iPhone. Sure, it was an easy argument to make by someone working in an industry that lends itself to profiting off of standing on the shoulders of a giant (in this case, Facebook).
But it's also an insight that may hint at the solution to one of the bigger obstacles so-called "old" media - the newspaper industry in particular - is up against: If news media outlets want to thrive in this new environment, they need to start thinking of themselves as apps. Platform + Apps = News Consumption When I think of our app economy, per se, I don't limit it to services like Facebook, Twitter www.twitter.com, the iPhone or even Foursquare - a few of the larger formidable platforms upon which apps are being built.
In Media, If You're Not a Platform, You're an App. Why journalists deserve low pay / The Christian Science Monitor. By Robert G. Picard / May 19, 2009 Journalists like to think of their work in moral or even sacred terms. With each new layoff or paper closing, they tell themselves that no business model could adequately compensate the holy work of enriching democratic society, speaking truth to power, and comforting the afflicted. Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition Actually, journalists deserve low pay. Wages are compensation for value creation. Until they come to grips with that issue, no amount of blogging, twittering, or micropayments is going to solve their failing business models. Where does value come from? Moral philosophers differentiate intrinsic and instrumental value.
Economic value is rooted in worth and exchange. To comprehend journalistic value creation, we need to focus on the benefits it provides. These benefits used to produce significant economic value. What are journalists worth? Web : le journaliste n’existe plus, vive le producteur de conten. Partager sur Viadeo Impertinences, Internet, Les Potins, Web 2.0 Par : La Rédaction - Vendredi 16 avril 2010 à 10:14 La récente sortie de l’iPad, le débat autour des médias à l’heure du web (mobile) et la fin tant annoncée de la presse « imprimée » donnent matière à troller un peu sur le sujet. « Qui fait l’information au temps des réseaux sociaux ? C’est une vraie question posée à l’occasion d’un colloque organisé par msn.fr. L’information n’est plus l’apanage du journaliste, un professionnel formé pour chercher, traiter, vérifier, analyser, sourcer… Aujourd’hui, tout internaute peut créer en quelques clics son support (le plus souvent, un blog) et publier son contenu.
Ne dites plus « journaliste citoyen » Un internaute n’est pas un journaliste-citoyen, c’est un producteur de contenus. Certes, tous ne sont pas de grande qualité et parfois même hors sujet, mais quelques fois, ces internautes sont des experts/spécialistes d’un sujet abordé. . « Il faut plus de geeks dans les rédactions » How are you going to make money? By changing your relationship w. I get the same question again and again as I explain our innovation efforts at Gazette Communications: How are you going to make money doing that? When I explained our plans to separate content from product , people could see that we were moving to an organization built for the future rather than the past. But they still asked: How do you monetize that? (Yes, even journalists have started using the M-word.) I answer in my Blueprint for the Complete Community Connection , published this week on my blog: We need to move beyond advertising.
Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen , the foremost authority on disruptive innovation, says established businesses take two approaches when faced with disruptive technology: They ignore it or they try to cram their existing model into the new opportunity. On the content side, we are finally getting beyond that, producing videos and interactive databases and Flash graphics exclusively for digital audiences.
What Is the Future of Online News? Newspapers around the world are struggling to survive while competing with websites that offer comparable news more quickly and without a subscription fee. Many newspapers have embraced the Internet and use their own websites to post news, but their online revenue is a fraction of what they get from print advertising and subscriptions. Newspapers are losing money and one by one they are going bankrupt. How can print newspapers maintain their profits while competing with online news? This article explores the predicament and looks at the role that website writers, designers and developers will play in the near future.
Online Subscriptions The BBC explains that the New York Times plans to start charging users who read more than a certain number of online articles per length of time. Registered users of the Financial Times website are allowed 10 articles every 30 days for free or unlimited access for $3.59 per week. The Financial Times’ paywall In short, the Financial Times dominates a niche. Louisville Mojo: Not My Future of Journalism.
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write. The Pencil Factory. Des envies... - Benoît Raphaël sur LePost.fr. Médias 03/03/2010 à 13h43 - mis à jour le 03/03/2010 à 14h16 | vues | réactions Quitter un média que l'on a fait naître, ce n'est jamais simple. Mais je quitte Le Post avec le sourire. C'était une aventure extraordinaire, une aventure humaine avant tout, lancée en 2007 avec Bruno Patino, alors président du Monde Interactif, Dao N'Guyen (qui travaille désormais au Wall Street Journal à New York), Yann Chapellon (qui est en train de révolutionner la PQR dans le Sud-Ouest), Jean-François Fogel (l'une des plus incroyables rencontres de ma carrière), Thomas Doduik (qui a, depuis, mis un peu de "Post" au Figaro.fr où il opère) et une poignée de jeunes journalistes pionniers, Violaine Domon, Pierre Godon, Antoine Daccord (aujourd'hui au Figaro.fr), Alexandre Lemarié, Alexandra Apikian, Angélique Vernier, et mon ancien adjoint Alexandre Piquard, qui assurera l'intérim.
Bruno Patino m'avait dit, la veille de mon embauche qu'il fallait désormais envisager l'info comme une expérience. FTC: Don't blame Google for newspaper woes | ZDNet Government | Newspapers all across the U.S. and Canada all have something in common, falling advertising revenues. Some of the most famous newspapers are facing bankruptcy. In Canada, five of the largest metropolitan newspapers are being auctioned off in a package deal after owner Can West Global defaulted on its loans. In the U.S. Time Magazine has identified 10 current publishers that are in financial peril including the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Boston Globe, Philadelphia News, Miami Herald, Detroit News and the Minneapolis Star Tribune which is reportedly filing for Chapter 11. The Federal Trade Commission has not investigated any complaints so far. Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, recently attended a FTC workshop in Washington D.C. and presented a unique perspective on newspaper economics.
In his Google blog he clarifies his views further. The news industry's financial problems started well before the web came along. What about search engines? Why Old Media and Social Media Don’t Get Along. Earlier today I did a brief drop in phone interview on CPAC’s Goldhawk Live. The topic was “Have social media and technology changed the way Canadians get news?” And Christoper Waddell, the Director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Chris Dornan, Director of Carleton University’s Arthur Kroeger School of Public Affairs were Goldhawk’s panel of experts. Watching the program prior to being brought in I couldn’t help but feel I live on a different planet from many who talk about the media. Ultimately, the debate was characterized by a reactive, negative view on the part of the mainstream media supporters. To them, threats are everywhere. The future is bleak, and everything, especially democratic institutions and civilization itself teeter on the edge.
I’m just soooooo tired of the doom and gloom. Last, night the worse offender was Goldhawk, who tapped into every myth that surrounds this debate. You know what though, I’m going to build on that. I always love this myth. La blogosphère au secours de la vieille presse ? Crise de la presse : pas seulement américaine ou anglo-saxonne ! - AFP-MediaWatch. Paywall and subscription models: a study of 30+ organisations | Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform – the numbers don't add. Paywall on-ramps get a workaround | Media. Should Sugar Daddies Save Journalism? Bay Area News Project Edit. Why it’s dangerous to compare print figures to website stats | O. Summary of “Magazines and their websites” – Columbia Journalism. Peter Preston: Making free news services pay, somehow | Media | Roy Greenslade: Proof that council papers are competing with loc. The Times's paywall move does not begin to tackle the wider chal.
Media mayhem in the Midlands. Murdoch's paywalls are 'antithetical to everything' claims Guard. Google’s Chief Economist: “Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money. NSFW: The Madness of King Rupert – I Admit, I Was Wrong About Mu. Inventing the Future in Iowa. No solution to newspaper problems? Hah! Network | Free News? Publishers Hope Those Days Are Numbered. Changing Models: A Global Perspective on Paying for Content Onli. Mark McLaughlin: Audiences Don't Pay for Content. US media companies try to resurrect 'hot news' to protect conten. TMT Predictions 2010 Comment naviguer en eaux incertaines ? Pyright law must be simplified | Felix Cohen | Comment is free | Web Journalism. Online/journalism. Journalisme de lien. Cours Mettout journalisme. Qu'est-ce que le journalisme de liens ? - novövision.
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