Tag: Newspapers
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So who do we lock in the room with a whiteboard and a laptop…
…to figure out the answer to the $4.5 billion question: “What’s the new business model for newspapers?” At last night’s Who Needs Ink? panel discussion, everyone punted on that question, but Jerry Ceppos (to my delight) again insisted that newspapers need to stop screwing around and devote a large chunk of their staff to the…
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Micro Persuasion: Marketing’s New Black
“During my seven years of commuting to work on the Long Island Railroad, the country’s largest commuter rail, I have watched the newspaper to gadget ratio slide heavily in favor of the gizmos. The machines have won.” Micro Persuasion: Marketing’s New Black
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Who Needs Ink? A panel discussion on the Future of Newspapers
Commonwealth Club event at San Jose City Hall: Who Needs Ink? Who’s here? Ex-Mercury News tech writer Dan Gillmor, currently of various citizen journalism initiatives Jerry Ceppos, ex-Knight Ridder news executive (and Merc alum) Peter Appert, a Goldman Sachs analyst Joan Walsh, Salon‘s editor-in-chief Jim Bettinger, communications prof from Stanford (and Merc alum) is moderating…
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First Draft by Tim Porter: If Newspapers Are to Rise Again
“It’s too late for tinkering. There’s no time to rearrange the deck chairs once again; the keel for a new boat must be laid. Media have exploded. We need to explode the newsroom.” First Draft by Tim Porter: If Newspapers Are to Rise Again
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Live Discussions (washingtonpost.com)
The weekly schedule for live chats at Washington Post site. Live Discussions (washingtonpost.com)
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WSJ.com – Heard on the Street
Could the Tribune Company be the next Knight Ridder? (Hint: that’s a bad thing, these days.) WSJ.com – Heard on the Street
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Simon Dumenco at AdAge: Newspapers need to start making web-friendly content online-only
“I swear to God, if I see one more sorrowful death-of-newspapers story I’m seriously going to hurt someone. Like a self-pitying newspaper person or, better yet, a hand-wringing newspaper executive.” Simon Dumenco at AdAge: Newspapers need to start making web-friendly content online-only
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Department of Justice looks into Bay Area media future
While two Minnesota Reps. are questioning the antitrust implications of McClatchy (briefly) owning both the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Department of Justice has apparently been busy questioning Grade the News director John McManus about what would happen if MediaNews bought the Bay Area ex-KR papers.
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Who Needs Ink? Ceppos, Gillmor, and more at a panel talk tonight, free for students
There’s a Commonwealth Club event on the Future of Newspapers tonight at San Jose City Hall. It’ll cost non-members $15, which I think is a little weird for a public event at City Hall, but whatever. It’s free for students, so check that link and read the fine print. I called the number and left…
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Cheers and jeers: Local media coverage of student protests for immigrant rights
Thousands of California high school students walked out of classes on Monday, adding their voices to the weekend’s protests against proposed legislation, still pending in the U.S. House of Representatives, that would make being an illegal immigrant a felony. Sounds like a great story, right? Lots of minority teenagers organizing on their own to take…