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21 Jul 15
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ProPublica has tied databases to storytelling better than anyone in the country. Homicide Watch can report more murders (all of them, in fact), using fewer people, than the Washington Post. Learning to code is the gold standard,
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Second, learn to use social media tools to find stories and sources
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Third, journalism is becoming more of a team sport. Integrated text and visuals, databases the readers can query and annotate themselves, group liveblogging of breaking news
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Between 1970 and now, the US has averaged only six years between recessions;
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12 Jul 15
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daily, with roots that go back to the 1880s. Like most such papers, it ran into trouble in the middle of last decade, as print advertising revenue fell, leaving a hole in the balance sheet that digital advertising couldn’t fill. When the 2008 recession accelerated those problems, the Times’ parent company, Landmark, began looking for a buyer, eventually selling it to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Media Group in 2013. The acquisition was greeted with relief in the newsroom, as Buffett had famously assured the employees at his earlier purchases “Your paper will operate from a position of financial strength.” Three months after acquiring the Times, BH Media fired 31 employees, a bit over a tenth of the workforce.
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he slow implosion of newspapers has been widely and correctly predicted for some time
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Journalists have been infantilized throughout the last decade, kept in a state of relative ignorance about the firms that employ them.
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My friend Jay Rosen writes about the media’s “production of innocence” — when covering a contentious issue, they must signal to the readers
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ontrary to the contrived ignorance of media reporters, the future of the daily newspaper is one of the few certainties in the current landscape: Most of them are going away, in this decade
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hose pamphlets — “free-standing inserts” — are now the largest single source of print advertising for many papers.
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Classifieds have imploded, local display ads are down, and black newsroom humor long ago re-labelled the Obituary column ‘Subscriber Countdown.’
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The death of newspapers is sad, but the threatened loss of journalistic talent is catastrophic
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18 Nov 14
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10 Nov 14
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17 Oct 14
Micah BalesThe Roanoke Times, the local paper in my family home, is a classic metro daily, with roots that go back to the 1880s. via Pocket
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07 Oct 14
Wessel van RensburgMagazines might still have a place for a while, but newspapers will go sooner. https://t.co/u1dMFSvkyU @cshirky
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03 Oct 14
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02 Oct 14
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The future of print remains what? Try to imagine a world where the future of print is unclear: Maybe 25 year olds will start demanding news from yesterday, delivered in an unshareable format once a day. Perhaps advertisers will decide “Click to buy” is for wimps. Mobile phones: could be a fad. After all, anything could happen with print. Hard to tell, really.
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The first piece of advice is the most widely discussed in journalism circles — get good with numbers. The old ‘story accompanied by a chart’ was merely data next to journalism; increasingly, the data is the journalism. Nate Silver has changed our sense of political prediction. ProPublica has tied databases to storytelling better than anyone in the country. Homicide Watch can report more murders (all of them, in fact), using fewer people, than the Washington Post. Learning to code is the gold standard, but even taking an online class in statistics and getting good at Google spreadsheets will help. Anything you can do to make yourself more familiar with finding, understanding, and presenting data will set you apart from people you’ll be competing with, whether to keep your current job or get a new one.
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01 Oct 14
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14 Sep 14
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03 Sep 14
Amelia HarperThis cluelessness is not by accident; the people who understand the state of the business often hide that knowledge from the workers.
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30 Aug 14
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29 Aug 14
claudia tigellaUn monumentale @cshirky https://t.co/MXiJkXvakg Che ne pensano @Aiannuzzi @fedebadaloni @tigella @doonie @annamasera @tedeschini @_arianna ?
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Young Lee신문산업의 광고관련 매출의 변화가 정말 드라마틱하군요. @cshirky 교수의 "Last Call" 글 중에서 중간 정도에 그래프가 있습니다 - http://t.co/crsCqiDiMX
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Marc Mentré"Il futuro della carta stampata rimane cosa?" My newspaper piece (http://t.co/acWvHNNVtj) reads better in Italian: http://t.co/yWx60dHt8Z
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27 Aug 14
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Contrary to the contrived ignorance of media reporters, the future of the daily newspaper is one of the few certainties in the current landscape: Most of them are going away, in this decade.
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rom the advertiser’s point of view, the nation’s newspapers have become little more than a blue-bag delivery service, with a horoscope and enough local sports inside to get people to open the bag.
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first, get good at understanding and presenting data. Second, understand how social media can work as a newsroom tool. Third, get whatever newsroom experience you can working in teams, and in launching new things.
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The death of newspapers is sad, but the threatened loss of journalistic talent is catastrophic. If that’s you, it’s time to learn something outside the production routine of your current job.
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26 Aug 14
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24 Aug 14
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Javier PastorLast Call — Medium http://t.co/rO2yMog6Q1
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The Roanoke Times
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23 Aug 14
jesshagmanShirky argues that too many journalists are unaware of the economic situation of the companies they write for. His advice to journalists includes learning to work with data, learning to use social media to share news and becoming comfortable working as a team on complex projects.
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John Pearce"Contrary to the contrived ignorance of media reporters, the future of the daily newspaper is one of the few certainties in the current landscape: Most of them are going away, in this decade. (If you work at a paper and you don’t know what’s happened to your own circulation or revenue in the last few years, now might be a good time to ask.) We’re late enough in the process that we can even predict the likely circumstance of its demise."
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22 Aug 14
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Luis A'[T]he future of the daily newspaper is one of the few certainties in the current landscape' https://t.co/1samHKJaTY
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antoinefCommentaire d'InaGlobal [http://www.inaglobal.fr/presse/lu-sur-le-web/il-faut-s-y-faire-la-presse-papier-va-mourir] : "C’est avec cette sentence brutale que Clay Shirky, l’essayiste et consultant spécialisé dans les technologies, veut réveiller les journalistes. Malgré des symptômes évidents (vagues de licenciements économiques, une chute des revenus publicitaires,…), trop de professionnels refusent selon lui d’ouvrir les yeux. Certes, de nombreux journalistes ont compris que désormais, il faut savoir traiter et présenter des données, utiliser les réseaux sociaux comme un outil de rédaction, et travailler en équipe. Mais pour Shirky, cela ne suffit pas. Désormais, chaque journaliste est seul, et doit apprendre à maîtriser les nouveaux outils du numérique car si « la mort du papier est triste, la perte du talent journalistique serait catastrophique. »"
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21 Aug 14
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Mandy Jenkins"What happened in Roanoke — gradual financial decay punctuated by bouts of firing — is the normal case at papers all over the country, and more is coming. The next wave of consolidation is already upon us; big media firms like Tribune and Gannett are abandoning their newspapers (“spinning them off”, in bloodless business parlance.) If you are a journalist at a print publication, your job is in danger. Period. Time to do something about it."
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Print ad revenues have fallen 65% in a decade, 2013 saw the lowest ever recorded, and 2014 will be worse
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20 Aug 14
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Jeremy RueArticle by CUNY Professor Clay Shirky about the demise of the printed newspaper. What should individual journalists do next? He recommends three things: 1. get good with numbers and data, 2. learn to use social media tools to find stories and sources, and
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Brian Wheeler" I asked several reporters, editors, and scholars what journalists should do to get ready for the next wave of firings. There were three strong consensus answers: first, get good at understanding and presenting data. Second, understand how social media can work as a newsroom tool. Third, get whatever newsroom experience you can working in teams, and in launching new things."
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Damien Van Achter"The death of newspapers is sad, but the threatened loss of journalistic talent is catastrophic. If that’s you, it’s time to learn something outside the production routine of your current job. It will be difficult and annoying, your employer won’t be much help, and it may not even work, but we’re nearing the next great contraction. If you want to get through it, doing almost anything will be better than doing almost nothing."
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19 Aug 14
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benayersOof > @arusbridger: Not for the faint-hearted - @cshirky: Last Call: The end of the printed newspaper. https://t.co/qae213unV5
– Carl Mesner Lyons (carlmesnerlyons) http://twitter.com/carlmesnerlyons/status/501846509164302336
Oof > @arusbridger: Not for the faint-hearted - @cshirky: Last Call: The end of the printed newspaper. https://t.co/qae213unV5 -
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Print ad revenues have fallen 65% in a decade, 2013 saw the lowest ever recorded, and 2014 will be worse
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If you are a journalist at a print publication, your job is in danger. Period. Time to do something about it.
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Journalists have been infantilized throughout the last decade, kept in a state of relative ignorance about the firms that employ them.
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he people who understand the state of the business often hide that knowledge from the workers.
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When the press writes about the current dislocations, they must insist that no one knows what will happen.
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Most of them are going away, in this decade.
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The print audience continues to defect to mobile, abandon the local paper, or die
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three strong consensus
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first, get good at understanding and presenting data. Second, understand how social media can work as a newsroom tool. Third, get whatever newsroom experience you can working in teams, and in launching new things.
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Learning to code is the gold standard,
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Anything you can do to make yourself more familiar with finding, understanding, and presenting data will set you apart from people you’ll be competing with, whether to keep your current job or get a new one.
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Second, learn to use social media tools to find stories and sources
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Third, journalism is becoming more of a team sport
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One objection to all this advice is that it is too little, too late, and not nearly enough to save most newsroom employees.
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dvice to get skilled at data, social media, and teamwork is pitifully obvious
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journalists can no longer rely on their papers to provide the opportunities to learn new skills.
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If you’re a journalist working inside a newspaper and you want to train for your next job, you’re largely on their own.
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This disconnection between the business side and the news side was celebrated as a benefit, right up to the moment it became an industry-wide point of failure.
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If that’s you, it’s time to learn something outside the production routine of your current job.
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Hans Fröhlich"The death of newspapers is sad, but the threatened loss of journalistic talent is catastrophic. If that’s you, it’s time to learn something outside the production routine of your current job. "
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Karl Fisch"The future of print remains what? Try to imagine a world where the future of print is unclear: Maybe 25 year olds will start demanding news from yesterday, delivered in an unshareable format once a day. Perhaps advertisers will decide “Click to buy” is for wimps. Mobile phones: could be a fad. After all, anything could happen with print. Hard to tell, really."
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