The Daily Beast et Newsweek : mariage du print et du digital. Politico isn't a newspaper. But it might be the future of print | Media | The Observer. Republican Mark Kirk wins the Illinois Senate seat formerly held by President Obama. Politico offers in-depth coverage of US politics - and nothing else - across several platforms. Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPA Early on Wednesday morning, I did what all modern American election obsessives do naturally. I didn't turn on the radio. I couldn't be bothered with TV. I just went downstairs and logged on to Politico.com. In short, I chose the future. Not all British newspaper readers are midterm obsessives, of course. But pause on the fine detail of Politico.com, because there's nothing "so what" about it now. Ah! Find the right niche – say one that everyone who makes a living out of US government has to be aware of – and you have an audience worth chasing. Dish by dish, you can see Nichols's buffet taking shape.
Prepare for the sort-of good news, then. It is, indeed, a future beginning to loom through the mists. Can 'The Printed Blog' Succeed with Blogs in Newspaper Form? If the entire media industry is a river that is slowly but persistently moving toward the Internet, then one could picture Joshua Karp as a canoeist paddling against the current, trying to take the online realm and solidify it into print.
I first heard of his new business venture, The Printed Blog, from a colleague of mine who runs a popular food blog. This person was contacted by someone who works for The Printed Blog and asked whether he would allow his content to be syndicated and printed in a free daily newspaper that would consist entirely of blog posts. But when the food blogger told me that payment would consist of future shared advertising revenue — how many times have we seen that before? — I classified it with the hundreds of other unserious blog network announcements that populate most social media job boards.
A few weeks later, however, I received word that The Printed Blog had published its inaugural issue and had even managed to earn coverage in the New York Times. Related. Hyperlocal blogger expands into print publishing | Media. A hyperlocal news site owner has launched into print with a low cost advertising weekly for Beverley. Paul Smith is known to many bloggers for campaigning to clear his name after the Hull Daily Mail accused him of activity in the porn industry and questioned his fitness to run the website HU17.net in high-profile coverage in the area.
But several stressful months on – and with a partially upheld PCC complaint against the paper behind him – Smith has stepped up his local publishing venture by launching in their backyard. He told me how the new venture was progressing: "The first edition was just sport with no other editorial, it was more as a promotional idea though has evolved since then.
Now it is 28 pages in full colour on A4 pages. "It is for everyone in the town though it seems to appeal to those who are out and about – ie who use the shops, bars and or play sport in the area". Internet : la culture pour tous ou chacun sa culture ? Les créateurs du magazine allemand Niiu sont parvenus à attirer les regards des médias du monde entier. Le lancement de cette publication a notamment été repris par la plupart des journaux français. Pas mal pour un magazine localisé sur Berlin et initialement tiré à 5 000 exemplaires. La raison de cet émoi tient à son concept novateur – et un brin périlleux, il faut bien l’avouer. Niiu est un journal personnalisé : chaque lecteur peut décider du contenu qu’il souhaite lire sur Internet, le journal est ensuite imprimé et livré à domicile. L’internaute peut ainsi se concocter un journal « à la carte », composé par exemple de la page internationale du Washington Post, de la rubrique économique du New York Times et des articles culture de Bild – selon LCI, Le Monde pourrait bientôt se joindre au projet.
Un partenariat a été signé avec 17 journaux du monde entier. C’est l’ensemble du modèle économique d’Internet qui poursuit cette tendance. . « Le présent est invisible » Entretien avec J. Rosselin de Vendredi Hebo « Piratage(s) Vendredi | John Gaynard on Creativity, Innovation and KM. For once the French got out of the starting blocks before the North Americans. The Printed Blog is still in beta in the U.S., but Vendredi the first French printed weekly blog has now been in the Parisian news kiosks for more than 3 months. It didn't get the formula right the first few weeks and it has recently relaunched but it seems to have found a stable readership of about 40.000 readers. Vendredi's mission is to print the best of the French blogosphere and online news.
On Bella Ciao, a surfer using the pseudonym of "Robinson Crusoe" condemns the profit motive of such a newspaper and says he is revolted by the fact that "these guys are making money by selling for €1,50 a paper that is only a collection of articles found for free on the web. " Jacques Rosselin*, the founder of Vendredi, reacted immediately on http:www.ouinon.net and defended himself by saying "On the Web you find a different take and different angles on general news, freer, more original. Gutenberg 2 le Retour | Pour ceux qui aiment le Net. Et si l'avenir c'était le papier ?
Et je ne dis pas ça parce que Nicolas Sarkozy a décidé vendredi dernier, à l'issue des Etats-Généraux de la Presse Ecrite, de verser plusieurs centaines de millions d'euros (en aides et en pub) aux journaux (600 millions, calcule Frédéric Filloux). Ni parce qu'il a annoncé qu'il allait abonner tous les jeunes de 18 ans gratuitement à un quotidien (ce qui devrait coûter plus de 117 millions d'euros par an...). Ni parce qu'il veut favoriser l'assouplissement du réseau de distribution, donner des aides aux diffuseurs, et supprimer les charges sur le portage (ce qui est une bonne chose). Ni parce qu'il veut aider la PQR et la PQN à faire baisser de 30 à 40% les coûts d'impression en coupant dans les sureffectifs et en négociant avec le tout puissant syndicat du livre un "nouveau contrat social" (je leur souhaite bon courage).
Alors, pourquoi titrer: "et si l'avenir c'était le papier ? " D'abord parce que je fais deux constats: Il n'y a plus de pellicule photo. A Path to a Magazine Where You’re Editor and Publisher - NYTime.