"What concerns me is that there are a whole generation of students who are being encouraged to pay for qualifications that will equip them to work in a 90s newsroom, because the people designing the courses and the industry input they receive are all from people who cut their teeth in a 90s newsroom."
"Local news outlets get less than one half of one percent of all pageviews in a typical market, according to a new report (pdf) called "Less of the Same: The Lack of Local News on the Internet.""
A veteran of online news makes a plea for a common platform among news industry companies if newspapers are to survive.
The editor fo the News-Record discusses the efforts to include the community in their news organization.
summary page of presentations to the world digital publishing conference in London. Lots of good information in bite size format. Look at what some people are guessing about the future.
WaPo discusses the new Gannett "information center" reorganization. Time to get your "mojo" working.
API initiative to help professional journalists transition to new methods of storytelling.
The title is a shocker - Goodbye Gutenberg, with articles about the disruptive technology on the Internet. thanks to Terry Heaton for the pointer.
"As of late last week, no students had submitted an application to be the next editor-in-chief of The Independent Florida Alligator, a top-notch newspaper with a rich history." Wow.
"I keep waiting for one of these distressed, failing newspapers to realize that it has nothing to lose and get a little crazy and create something brand new and brilliant for readers and advertisers. I keep being disappointed." - Jack Shafer with more doo
$13,000 raised so far. Created by Andrew Dunn, a journalism student at UNC-Chapel Hill.
"Any good blogger, competing journalist or alert press critic can spot and publicize false balance and the lame acceptance of fact-free spin. Do users really want to be left helpless in sorting out who's faking it more? The he said, she said form says the
"I’ve been pretending in my head that I’m a newspaper exec. When I do that I keep beating myself around the face. Why? Because the newspaper industry keeps giving the geeks free meals." - Robert Scoble has a devastating list. via @jay_rosen on Twitter
"That’s never more true than now, because, well, most all professors at j-schools are from an era that digitization is fast making irrelevant (There are many exceptions, two at Temple being here and here). The rules are broken and more than ever, journali
"Journalism will survive because it fills an important social need. But the shape of the industry and the jobs of industry workers obviously already are changing dramatically, and that change will continue. Here is one blue-sky scenario of how the not-too
Albert Sun gets a shout-out from Nieman Labs. I'm skeptical, but then, I'm skeptical of most everything these days.
"Listening to news executives talk about micropayments, Kindles, public subsidies, micropayments, collusion, blocking Google and anything else that might save their businesses, it occurs to me that they may have missed some developments in, ah, well, the
"With newspapers’ traditional business model in free fall, the top media minds at global design firm IDEO (designer of the Apple mouse, consultant to Fortune 500 companies) were asked to imagine: How will we get our news after the traditional model falls
"Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge serving both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people. Meanwhile on campus, th
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