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12 Feb 09

Reasons to be optimistic about journalism in 2009 - The Next Newsroom Project

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There are no end of posts you can find dissecting what newspapers did wrong, how they reached a dead end, how endless cuts are affecting the quality of journalism. As far as I'm concerned, most of those post-mortems are pointless. What's done is done and rehashing the past is not helping us move forward.
he search for solutions must begin with wild experimentation. Not only is there growing consensus about the need for fundamental change. Even better, there is tremendous momentum building around new ideas, new news and information start-ups, and support for emerging entrepreneurs.
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- USC Annenberg is offering a week-long News Entrepreneur Boot Camp in May to teach start-up skills to folks hoping to get a journalism venture off the ground. In March, The Poynter Institute and the Journalism That Matters Collaborative are co-hosting a conference on the New Roles for Journalists. And over at the University of Missouri, the Reynolds Journalism Institute is accepting applications for its year-long fellowship program that brings in journalists and academics for a year to incubate new journalism ideas. And of course, at Stanford University, the prestigious Knight Fellowships Program has been reinvented to focus on new ideas and entrepreneurs.
- We have Spot.Us exploring community funded journalism. We have the City University of New York establishing a new center to study New Business Models for News. And from the Reynolds Institute, Bill Densmore is spearheading development of an Information Valet Project, an attempt to create new framework for advertising and personal information to sustain journalism. Finally, Len Witt at Kennesaw State University just got a $1.5 million grant to create The Center for Sustainable Journalism.
- there are too many news-related to start-ups to count these days. There's the Public Press, Michael Stoll's effort to start an ad-free newspaper in San Francisco. And last month, GlobalPost launched, offering a new model for international reporting. If you didn't read about the work that Medill's Crunchberry team was doing in Cedar Rapids, you should. And definitely check out News Mixer, which grew out of the Crunchberry project.
- The New York Times later this month is holding its first API seminar to discuss how it's opening up its news platform to allow developers to build applications on it.
- there are countless grassroots blogging networks being started by former mainstream journalists. For me, this is proof that there is in fact a strong entrepreneurial spirit among journalists that has largely been squashed by management and owners
- At the same time, the decline of traditional news organizations is leaving behind fertile ground for news start-ups and entrepreneurs, big and small.
- the overall chaos in society during that period weakened the hold institutions such as the church and government had over people's lives. The result was a freedom to explore radical and subversive ideas and movements around how society was structured, sexual relations, and religion
- the increasingly grim economics may finally force some newspaper owners to push for the kind of radical changes that are long overdue.
- last month I agreed to become and advisor to Allvoices.com, a global citizen media start-up based in San Francisco. Next week, I'm going to be attending a Technology Tools Workshop offered by the Knight Digital Media Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
- While many U.S. newsrooms have failed to invest in change, it's a very different story outside of the U.S. In fact, newspapers in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia have been building new newsrooms and re-structuring old ones to become true, multi-media organizations.

31 Jan 09

OutCast cuts staff by 20% - PRWeek US

It's not just newspapers anymore.

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SAN FRANCISCO: OutCast Communications has cut about 20% of its workforce in response to the failing economy. Seventeen staff members were told yesterday, January 29, that they would be let go,
OutCast's clients include Facebook, Amazon.com, and Mozilla.
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- A number of PR firms have recently reported layoffs, while some others have shut offices or closed their doors completely.

23 Jan 09

San Francisco Chronicle Editor Ward Bushee: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA

KQED - Forum with Michael Krasny

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02 Dec 08

Gannett Blog: Bulletin: Gannett launches mass nationwide layoff; Thousands of jobs at stake

More bad news from the newspaper biz.

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The nation's top newspaper publisher, Gannett, has begun what is expected to be the single-biggest layoff in the industry's history -- cutting as many as 3,000 jobs in an increasingly desperate bid to save the 102-year-old company.
The cuts come as papers nationwide comply with Corporate's goal of reducing employment by an average 10% in the 30,000-worker newspaper division, through layoffs, attrition and other means.

A Generation of Local TV Anchors Is Signing Off - NYTimes.com

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“I don’t think we’re going to see the anchor people grow old with the audience anymore.”
Across the country, longtime local TV anchors are a dying breed. Facing an economic slump and a severe advertising downturn, many stations have cut costs drastically in the last year, and veteran anchors, with their expensive contracts, seem to be shouldering a disproportionate share of the cutbacks. When station managers are forced to make cuts, hefty anchor salaries are a tempting target.
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- When the anchors depart, they take decades of experience and insight with them. “Basically, you replace someone who knows City Hall with someone who can’t find it,” said John Beard, who lost his job at KTTV last December after 26 years as a news anchor in Los Angeles.
- anchors’ salaries now seem “out of sync with the reality” of budgets
- Local TV, although it lacks the glamour of the network nightly news or the prestige of print newspapers, remains the most popular single source of news in the United States.
- Advertising is falling sharply, partly because of cutbacks in spending by automakers and car dealerships, which represent the single largest category of advertiser for broadcasters.