True/Slant. Andrew Keen - Micropayments Are a Macro-Err. The high costs of running YouTube. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Ma. Battle Plans for Newspapers - Room for Debate Blog. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Virtually every newspaper in America has gone through waves of staff layoffs and budget cuts as advertisers and subscribers have marched out the door, driven by the move to the Web and, more recently, the economic crisis. In some cities, midsized metropolitan papers may not survive to year’s end. The owners of the Rocky Mountain News and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer have warned that those papers could shut down if they can’t find buyers soon. The Star Tribune of Minneapolis recently filed for bankruptcy. The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News will soon stop home delivery four days of the week to cut operating costs.
What survival strategies should these dailies adopt? Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia Journalism SchoolJoel Kramer, editor of MinnPost.comSteven Brill, founder of The American Lawyer magazineGeneva Overholser, Annenberg School of JournalismCraig Newmark, founder of craigslist.orgAndrew Keen, authorEdward M. This is too facile. Newspapers may seek philanthropy to support news-gathering. From OJR, Knight Digital Media Center By David WestphalPosted: 2009-01-22 Could newspapers and local broadcasters begin seeking philanthropic support from the civic foundations and private donors that are starting to bankroll news non-profits? It appears entirely likely. With for-profit media watching their news-gathering resources dwindle, some editors say they're open to the idea of seeking help from donors. Charlotte Hall, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, told me the idea raises multiple questions about how newspapers could solicit philanthropic support and still retain credibility.
The idea that for-profit media might seek subsidies from community foundations came into sharp focus last week, when the Knight Foundation awarded $5 million to 21 civic foundations that pitched plans for expanding news and information in their communities. From 68.203.168.13 on January 23, 2009 at 7:48 AM. Networked link journalism: A revolution quietly begins in Washin. The discussion about journalism’s future so often focuses on Big Changes — Kill the print edition! Flips for everyone! Reinvent business models NOW! — that it’s easy to forget how simple innovation can be. Sometimes all you need is a few Tweets, a bunch of links, and some like-minded pioneers. That’s how a quiet revolution began in Washington state Wednesday. But it gets better. “The whole thing came together on Twitter yesterday morning,” Elaine Helm, new media editor at the Herald in Everett, said in an email Thursday. The story was crazy rain in western Washington: evacuations, flooded and closed highways, avalanches, a breached levee, the whole deal.
As Paul described it in an email, Brianne Pruitt (@briannepruitt, Wenatchee World web editor) and Angela Dice (@adice, Kitsap Sun web editor) picked up on the hashtag, “and it snowballed.” Here’s the Herald’s link roundup (which is also linked on the Herald’s homepage); Wenatchee World’s (see inset box at left); How refreshing is that?