Tag: Newspapers
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The business model is still the elephant in the room
As much fun as it is for me to make clever lists and shout from the hilltops about what I think your news organization should be doing, how they should be doing it, and why they should be doing it, no matter what argument I (or anyone else) has in favor of a certain technology…
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It’s not the economy, stupid – Part 2
Mark Hamilton on why the “current crisis” in the news business might pay off on the other side of the chasm: “Even if the American economy turns around in a big way, newspaper health won’t magically improve, because of the internet, demographic and societal changes, etc. But newspaper companies are likely to find that their…
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Standalones
Steve Yelvington, on the consequences of removing copy editors from the newspaper equation: “The dirty little secret of newspaper journalists is that a lot of them can’t write very well. That’s by no means universally true, but it’s true enough.” … Zac Echola, on his vision of a distributed and loosely joined newsroom: “The Internet…
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Transatlantic passenger ships
Mindy McAdams offers 10 simple facts about the survival of journalism. Number 5: “Newspapers were a nice business. Publishers could make the product insanely cheap (remember the penny press), and the advertising would cover the expenses, plus generate fantastic profits. However, this is clearly over. It’s done. It worked for a long time, but now,…
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Declare your independence from the curmudgeon tribe
More than a year ago, I wrote a blog post aimed at the curmudgeons in your newsroom. The ones who prefer hand-wringing editorials to reorganization plans. The ones who prefer complaining about bloggers to starting a blog. The ones who prefer whining about Google and craigslist and every other disruptive organization to becoming a disruptive…
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MediaShift Idea Lab . CopyCamp: Community Unconference in the Newsroom | PBS
The Merc’s Chris O’Brien writes about the takeaways from the first CopyCamp. MediaShift Idea Lab . CopyCamp: Community Unconference in the Newsroom | PBS
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Why we don’t read your paper
Tim Ball, in a post titled “Newspapers and why nobody reads them” writes: “The problem for newspapers isn’t that I’m getting this information from another source. It’s that I don’t want it at all, and the local-local focus of metro newspapers in the last several years has made them not just less valuable to me,…
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On print redesigns
Brothers and sisters in the print design world, you know I love you. You bust your collective ass day after day to dress up content that may or may not be as award-winning as your design work, and in the end, you usually just get laid off for your troubles. Because when management looks around…
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If you think online news is difficult…
If using a Web-based content management system is difficult, try putting together a print edition in an old version of Quark and then come back and tell me how hard it is to push the Publish button. If editing video takes too long, then go back to developing your own prints in the darkroom. If…