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"Overall, this is a revolution in more than pricing. It’s a revolution in thinking and, really, publisher identity."
Is what Reddit does journalism? Is what Wikipedia does or Quora does journalism? These might be the kinds of questions that journalists like to get wrapped up in, but people looking for information probably aren’t as interested in splitting semantic hairs. All they know is whether it’s useful or not
"The mini-case studies are a grab bag of ideas, ranging from novel circulation promotions to radical new lines of business, but they all have one thing in common: They leverage the newspaper’s unique position as a trusted companion within a geographic area."
"As more and more newspapers begin to deliver stories in electronic forms, journalists are re-examining their traditional roles in a world of exponentially expanding information. Most of the metro reporters and editors interviewed during a trio of USA case studies in the summer and early autumn of 1995 believe their function as gatekeepers remains vital, but they see it as being modified to encompass a need for interpretation and quality control. Their role becomes less about selecting stories for dissemination and more about bolstering the value of what they disseminate so that it rises to the crest of the information tidal wave. "
"General news becomes mass available as soon as it hits the Web, so it doesn’t hold any monetary value to readers. Don’t waste time, energy, and money by chasing these stories. Instead, link to another news organization that has already done the legwork. By focusing on the stories you excel at you’ll be able to best serve your audience and ensure that other news sites are linking back to your content. "
in list: Crystal ball gazing.
Canadian Journalism Foundation : "You don’t tinker or tweak a broken model. You start again anew. And I would add build upon our foundations."
"Our emphasis should be on encouraging experimentation and collaboration in pursuit of successful innovation".
in list: Innovation and industries
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We have to learn directly from news consumers through experiments. There is not enough adding of value, using the extra capacity and the extra creativity of the internet.
There are now tremendous tools at our disposal for communicating information, including how we visualise and present complicated data. More of these data visualisation tools should be being used more of the time for the more complicated issues and for policy explanation.
Our emphasis should be on encouraging experimentation and collaboration in pursuit of successful innovation.
I like the phrase 'work with a sense of urgency...
"When it comes to staff in the transition to digital, Parrish said, “First, work with a sense of urgency. The digital world is changing so quickly. Change has accelerated 100-fold since I’ve been doing this. We have to be able to try and, if necessary, move on quickly. Be comfortable with not knowing what’s next.
“Such people are not that common in legacy companies like ours. To accomplish the transformation, we need people who embrace the future and are willing to take risks.” "
in list: Crystal ball gazing.
"Some of the experiments going on today, small and tentative as they are, will eventually harden into institutional form, and that development will be as surprising as the penny press subsidizing journalism for seven generations. The old landscape had institutions and so will the new one, but this doesn’t imply continuity. We still have companies called Western Union and ATT, but as the communications landscape changed, they have become almost unrecognizably different from their former selves. Likewise, as the presses fall silent over the next ten years, even papers that survive will see their internal organization and their place in the ecosystem altered beyond our ability to predict."
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Despite these challenges to newspapers, Starkman believes that we can and must “…find ways to preserve and transfer their most important attributes to a digital era, even as we push them to adapt to new financial, technological, and cultural realities.” I don’t believe we must do this, because I don’t believe we can do this. That, I think, is the core diference between our views.
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Some of the experiments going on today, small and tentative as they are, will eventually harden into institutional form, and that development will be as surprising as the penny press subsidizing journalism for seven generations. The old landscape had institutions and so will the new one, but this doesn’t imply continuity. We still have companies called Western Union and ATT, but as the communications landscape changed, they have become almost unrecognizably different from their former selves. Likewise, as the presses fall silent over the next ten years, even papers that survive will see their internal organization and their place in the ecosystem altered beyond our ability to predict.
Enders said: “There has been a substantial decline in advertising revenue in the regional press. They have been the worst effected by the pressures of the digital age. It has lost 40 per cent of its workforce in the last five years.”
in list: Future of Newspapers
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Media analyst Claire Enders has estimated that 40 per cent of jobs in the UK regional press have gone over the last five years.
Missed this post from last week by @currybet (holidays, shmolidays) but it's PROPERLY BRILLIANT.
"This speed gap is being emphasised with print even more and more. I still instinctively look at the news stand as I walk past it on my commute to work, and after a couple of seconds, I remember that I saw all of the front pages the night before thanks to @suttonnick and other sources. By the time I’m at the point of potentially purchasing a paper, I’ll have watched some morning TV news, and checked the news on my phone. And the papers are still featuring front page stories that I first saw ten or eleven hours previously."Speed isn’t everything... but the fastest emerging way of reporting digitally is the live blog format"...
in list: Future of Newspapers
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As an industry, we currently seem to be trying to pump out all of our content, on all of our platforms, regardless of whether it is suitable. A recent brilliant Telegraph interactive showing before and after photos of damage caused during the London riots urged users on the iPad to interact with it using a mouse, and the Guardian produces some interactives that render as one apologetic line of text if you are using an iOS device that refuses to run Flash.
At the most basic, any text that says “(See diagram left)” fails to take into account the fact that the positioning of the diagram might move around according to the orientation of the device. Little cues like that tell the reader that you haven’t really made that content for them and the way they’ve chosen to consume it.
..."At every turn, the question must be where can I add the greatest value? Is that necessarily in writing articles? One way to answer that question would be to audit the articles we are served today, especially in local papers. How many repeat news we already know? How many are rewritten from wire services and press releases for the sake of producing a byline? How much space is taken up with background paragraphs – which inevitably tell some readers too little and the rest too much? Couldn't that need be better served with links to a constantly updated archive of recent history and in-depth explainers?"...
in list: Crystal ball gazing.
..."with lots of the digital talent and the experience they had developed gone and a culture that is still defined by print, the chances for those who remain, and those who have yet to join, to progress into senior managerial positions decreases. The Guardian, as all other news organisations, needs people who truly understand digital in senior positions, but without a pool of talent to promote, they just aren’t going to get that. Indeed, I’d say The Guardian has suffered a significant digital brain-drain and it’s going to take 10 to 15 years for digital folk now to penetrate the higher levels of management"...
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