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09 Jul 09

Ledger Live: How a newspaper webcast became less like a news show and more like a blog » Nieman Journalism Lab

Re: Evolving formats ... "For the web in general, you need a voice."

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  • The show’s evolution shows the limits of borrowing from an established model when building something new. Just as early TV had to evolve its own formats and get past just being radio-plus-pictures, newspaper online video is evolving beyond the metaphors television has handed it.


    “From a newscast, it got a lot more bloggy, which I like and have more fun doing — and I think it works better,” Donohue told me. “What we wanted to do was just go back to doing a video show the way reporters talk to each other. It’s more conversational. It’s snarkier. It’s a lot more fun. What you need for video to work on the web is more of a voice. For the web in general, you need a voice.”

  • Like most blogs, Ledger Live depends on viral marketing and social media. All of the newspaper’s videos are crossposted on its YouTube and Blip.tv channels, where view counts are often low, but the chances of an occasional video going viral are higher.
01 Jun 09

Seven reasons charging for content won’t work « Transforming the Gaz

  • Paid content has been tried before. One of the biggest myths of the newspaper business today was that we foolishly gave our content away early in the age of the Internet. Many newspapers were either slow to go online because of fear of cannibalization or erected pay walls. We finally got aggressive and free online because holding back our content and charging for it weren’t working.
  • This meeting is an embarrassment. Our industry fights for openness and accountability in government and we are trying to find a path for success in a digital marketplace where transparency is increasingly important. Can these people not see how foolish and hypocritical it looks to think they can huddle behind closed doors and solve our problems?
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22 May 09

Getting Money from Readers Who Won't Pay for Online News

  • Charging on the Web won't work for general-news publishers, and there are better alternatives.
  • the current thinking of a growing number of newspaper executives. To paraphrase: "We believe that our local reporting has high value, it costs us a lot to produce it, so we will retrain the audience that they must pay for it."
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11 May 09

The American Press on Suicide Watch - Columnist Frank Rich - NYTimes.com

  • IF you wanted to pick the moment when the American news business went on suicide watch, it was almost exactly three years ago. That’s when Stephen Colbert, appearing at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, delivered a monologue accusing his hosts of being stenographers who had, in essence, let the Bush White House get away with murder (or at least the war in Iraq).
  • to the Beltway’s bafflement, Colbert’s riff went viral overnight, ultimately to have a marathon run as the most popular video on iTunes. The cultural disconnect between the journalism establishment and the public it aspires to serve could not have been more vividly dramatized.
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06 May 09

Greg Mitchell: How Media Will Pay for Poor Warning on Financial Collapse

... a new Rasmussen poll revealed that one in four Americans now believe that the "faux" news delivered by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert is replacing "real" news sources as viable outlets.

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  • "No one knew" and "we're only as good as our sources" or "they lied to us" are the common excuses. That sounds exactly like the media defending its Iraq miscues.
  • I speak, of course, of the Iraq war and the financial meltdown.
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05 May 09

Jeff Jarvis: No Newspapers at Any Price

  • The insane response to this change is to resist it and mourn it. The sane response is to find the opportunity in it.



    Don't bail. Build.



    It may be too late for newspapers to find that opportunity. But others will find it. That's not doomsaying. That's optimism.

  • It makes less sense every day to try to preserve and protect - to invest in - what is obviously a failing model. Every day that papers keep printing is a day that they haven't reinvented themselves for a new reality.
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03 May 09

Retraining Wire and Feature Editors to Be Web Curators - Publishing 2.0

  • If I were a wire or feature editor in a newsroom, instead of waiting to become obsolete, I would start immediately learning how to be a top notch web curator. I’d ask myself — how can I become the Jim Romenesko or Matt Drudge for my community.
  • Wire and feature editors are already skilled content curators — they just need to adapt those skills to filtering the web.
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29 Apr 09

East Bay, Peninsula newspapers increase circulation - San Francisco Business Times:

27 Apr 09

Slouching Towards Oblivion - Columnist Maureen Dowd - NYTimes.com

I keep thinking of newspapers as Norma Desmond. Papers are still big. It's the screens that got small.

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  • I keep thinking of newspapers as Norma Desmond.

    Papers are still big. It’s the screens that got small.

  • Now that everybody can check their iPhones and laptops for news that personally interests them, now that they can Google, blog and tweet, as well as shop — and stalk — on Craigslist, old-school newspapers seem like aging silent film stars, stricken to find themselves outmoded by technology.
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15 Apr 09

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Along the lines of "What if you threw a party and no one came?" ... what if AP blocked access to its stories and no one cared?

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  • just as a wide range of journalistic enterprises are conducting investigative reporting (including online news outlets, television stations, and advocacy groups), so too will we get our news from a variety of different sources. In fact, we already do.
  • AP and other Wire: 5 secondary

    Radio: 4 primary
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14 Apr 09

Spare change for news | Salon News

  • newspapers have been driven to the brink by the expectation of making the kind of double-digit profits that large corporate owners demand, and by the financial shenanigans, including loading up on debt, that corporate ownership has brought.
  • The challenge for nonprofit journalism is both daunting and exciting. Long before the current recession and radical cutbacks, many newspapers had lost their community watchdog function, no longer bothering with the expensive and time-consuming work of investigative reporting. A 2005 survey by Arizona State University of the 100 largest U.S. dailies found that 37 percent had no full-time investigative reporters, and the majority of the major dailies had two or fewer.
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‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers - NYTimes.com

  • A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let people zoom in on what is happening closest to them, often without involving traditional journalists.
    • As the saying goes, "Lead, follow or get out of the way."
      If news organizations don't lead on the web, others will...and they'll bypass newspapers.
      - on 2009-04-14
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  • The sites, like EveryBlock, Outside.in, Placeblogger and Patch, collect links to articles and blogs and often supplement them with data from local governments and other sources.
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09 Apr 09

The Associated Press Is Angry At The Web - Faster Forward

  • some of my fellow journalists have been all a-twitter about a speech that Associated Press chairman Dean Singleton gave at the AP's annual meeting.
  • You might think that Singleton is mad about sites that copy and paste entire AP stories. But the AP's earlier actions against bloggers, more recent statements by Singleton (see, for instance, paidContent.org's interview of him from this week) and subsequent reports (such as this Wall Street Journal item) indicate he's also angry about sites that merely post a summary or a brief excerpt of AP stories.



    As you might imagine, that hasn't gone over too well on the Web.

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Kachingle: “Wait until the Summer; we’ll save journalism then.” « The SiliconANGLE

  • right now, the biggest meme amongst the Heritage Media (at least the print side) is to sue the crap out of New Media, and the rest of the Internet, in a desperate means to try to stay alive.
  • Our plan now is to launch later this summer.
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Google could come to the rescue, but won’t?: SteveOuting.com

  • Yes, quality original content is in Google’s best interest, but helping to underwrite original news production is not the same thing as propping up existing news corporations. Existing newspaper businesses are optimized - executive staff included - for a dying production model. Why would Eric Schmidt come to the conclusion that those executives are a good bet for stewarding journalism across the print/digital divide?
  • Right now legacy news executives are panicking, especially newspapers. They’re discussing schemes to put news content behind walls, away from Google’s prying eyes,
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That Whining Sound You Hear Is The Death Wheeze Of Newspapers

  • yesterday, the A.P. declared all out war against the Internet.
  • What is going on here is that the newspaper industry contracted by $7.5 billion last year in the U.S. alone, and it is looking for someone to blame rather than adapt to the new realities of information consumption.
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31 Mar 09

How my publisher father predicted electronic news | Newsweek My Turn | Newsweek.com

  • He believed newspapers could save themselves from extinction—but only if they adapted early and intelligently to new technology.
  • One former publisher told me recently that Barry Bingham Jr. "was the visionary among us. He said what we didn't want to hear and we ran from it."
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The Shift

  • it makes sense that there's a "shift" under way. This shift is as important to today's journalists as the invention of hot type and the halftone process were to the journalists at the turn of the previous century.
  • Negroponte's theory about the ongoing shift from wired to wireless was part of his greater assertion that we are rapidly moving from "atoms to bits."
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19 Mar 09

Tom Watson: Clay Shirky is Right: Newspapers' Death is Journalism's Loss

  • The newspaper world is slowly asphyxiating, starved for the oxygen of classified advertising and simultaneously kicked in the chest by a massive recession that is hastening the tombstones in the graveyard of newsprint.
  • The newspaper world is slowly asphyxiating, starved for the oxygen of classified advertising and simultaneously kicked in the chest by a massive recession that is hastening the tombstones in the graveyard of newsprint.
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