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Clay Shirky on 2009-03-16
The Media Misery Index on 2009-03-14
The death throes of my newspaper - The Brand Graveyard - Salon.com on 2009-03-08
The Rise of Wikipedia Intellectualism « The Corn Beltway Boys on 2009-03-08
Reflections of a Newsosaur on 2009-03-08
Mother Jones Tests Nonprofit Model in Race to Survive Recession - NYTimes.com on 2009-03-08
- As such, Mother Jones has become a real-life laboratory for whether nonprofit journalism — a topic of the moment in mainstream news media circles — can withstand a deep recession.
- Back in the fall, when the economic downturn intensified, and the plight of print publications became more dire, Mother Jones suffered, despite its position of not being in it for the money. Advertising plummeted, down 23 percent in 2008, and some of the big donations the magazine depends on didn’t come through.
  “Some big donors pulled back,” said Clara Jeffery, a co-editor of the magazine, in an interview in her San Francisco office.
CORRESPONDENCE: A New Era of Corruption? on 2009-03-08
- the effects will indeed be so dire for democracy. First, though it would be silly to deny the contributions of newspapers to checking abuse of power, the traditional media have been far from the idealized Fourth Estate.
- grain of salt between our teeth, like Russians drinking tea through a sugar cube. The traditional media, to the contrary, commanded respect and imposed authority. It was precisely this respect and authority that made The New York Times' reporting on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so instrumental in legitimating the lies that the Bush administration used to lead this country to war. Two weeks ago and then last Friday, The Washington Post was still allowing George Will to make false claims about the analysis of a scientific study of global sea ice levels without batting an eyelid, reflecting the long-standing obfuscation of the scientific consensus on the causes of climate change by newspapers that, in the name of balanced reporting, reported the controversy rather than the actual scientific consensus.
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- - The New York Times, which see a much larger readership of their online platform, supported by a slowly improving level of targeted advertising to its new, larger audiences, and international sources like the BBC or Al Jazeera,
  - osh Marshall's Talking Points Memo, which Starr notes, is the poster-child for this form. The idea here is that with sufficiently high quality professional commitment to reporting, combined with contributions from engaged readers, various freelancers, and academics who can use the platform as their own stage, a small outfit can draw a sufficiently large number of readers to sell advertising at levels that can sustain this level of operation.
  - The Washington Independent, funded by the Center for Independent Media, is an excellent example. Part of what is important to remember is that journalists, like all people, come in many motivational profiles. Some scientists go to work for startups and look for the big bucks, but most who do basic research trade-off potential riches for a steady academic position and the respect and independence that come with it. Certainly, many journalists too are driven to write about the news of the day because they care and because they want to get it right; and this model allows them to do so even if it does not quite get them the levels of compensation that the older model might have.
  - Over 10,000 Daily Kos contributors have strong political beliefs, and they are looking to express them and to search for information that will help their cause
  - blogosphere has more of this phenomenon at this point in history than does the right. For digging up the dirt on your opponent's corruption, this is a powerful motivator, and the platforms are available to allow thousands of volunteers to work together, with the leadership and support of a tiny paid staff
  - or instance, academic economists like Brad DeLong, on the left, and the contributors to Marginal Revolution, on the right, played a much greater role in debates over the stimulus and bailout than they could have a mere decade ago.
  - Bomb Iran," or the people who are increasingly harnessed by forward looking organizations, like the BBC or now CNN iReport
  - All we need to do is remember the Rodney King beating, the Abu Ghraib photos, or the images of people walking through the underground tunnels during the London bombings to understand this
  - dmittedly, I think we do not have good research to know whether this system is also working for local politics and potential corruption as well. This, as Starr shows, is an important area we need to study and understand.
Center for Independent Media on 2009-03-01
Rocky Mountain News Is Closing in Denver - NYTimes.com on 2009-03-01
- Mr. Boehne said that just one potential buyer expressed interest in the paper, before realizing that the economic challenges it faced were overwhelming.
- One of Seattle’s papers, The Post-Intelligencer, might close soon; the two Detroit papers have decided to stop home delivery some days of the week; and the owner of the two Philadelphia papers recently filed for bankruptcy, as did one of the two papers in the Twin Cities.
Marc Fisher - Bloggers Can't Fill the Gap Left by a Shrinking Press Corps - washingtonpost.com on 2009-03-01
- Reporters who may find it harder to get stories into the paper write in more detail, often several times a day, for the Virginia Politics and Maryland Moment blogs.
- Many bloggers say that far from being able to replace professional reporters, they actually suffer from the diminished flow of state news. "What I can't offer on my blogs is the relationships, the institutional memory, the why, the history that reporters who know the capital can bring to their stories," says Waldo Jaquith, who blogs on Virginia politics and runs a site, RichmondSunlight.com, that tracks every bill. "Newspapers can describe the candidates for governor in a more balanced, deeper way because you don't have a dog in the race. We bloggers do."
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- - But as long as people buy property, look for jobs, send kids to school and pay taxes, they will need credible information about state government. Something will rise to fill the news vacuum, someday. In the meantime, the lobbyists are getting the news they need. The voters, not so much.