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Jim Spanfeller has a pretty rosy take on why journalists (if not newspapers) will persevere into the uncertain future.
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Stories will still develop over time and across many specific installments of reporting. But the idea of a “scoop” having great value is gone. In an internet-enabled world, a scoop lasts for only a very fleeting period of time. The real value is the insight about that scoop.
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It will also be important to present raw data well. “Give me your thoughts,” say the readers, but let me see the data as well. Give me a chance to disagree with your theories and commentary. For this to happen, the institution supporting and paying the journalist will have to collect or buy the appropriate data and present it in a way that is both easy to understand and work with.
Out of print: The future of news, newspapers and journalism
A paper presented by Martin Langeveld to the Monday Evening Club in Pittsburgh in April. In it, Langeveld summarizes the newspaper crisis and what he sees as a way out.
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Add Sticky NoteThe question is, what’s driving the trend away from newspaper reading?
- I'd argue that the trend is not away from newspaper reading, it's away from newspaper "buying." - on 2009-06-17
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The idea of a single mass medium that everyone in a community or metropolis would want to read is no longer logical, any more than we are all likely to watch the same television programs log in to the same website or tune to the same radio station.
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Public Rejects Newspapers’ Survivalist Rhetoric
Randy Shaw at Beyond Chron, an alternative online daily in SF, shares his take on the decline in newspapers, especially the San Francisco Chronicle.
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The fact is that the rise of corporate media ownership weakened the quality of newspapers, and that while the Internet expedited the decline, an inferior product, not lack of money, is the top problem.
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Specifically, newspaper defenders so frequently tout their role in funding “investigative journalism” and providing local coverage that one can almost forget their failure to question the Bush Administration almost until the very end, and their consistent promotion of downtown developers and real estate interests in virtually every major city.
Facing up to life after print for newspapers
Alan Mutter compares newspapers to the auto industry and finds that newspapers have more promise for adapting to future economics.
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Like it or not, it’s only a matter of time before it will not be economically feasible in most markets to print newspapers seven days a week.
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To gain full advantage of the resources remaining at newspapers after the recent years of extreme cost cutting, many publishers are going to have to face the emotionally difficult decision to cut back on their daily print schedules.
By producing a limited number of premium-priced, niche publications on only the days when it is profitable to do so, publishers can begin to focus more of their attention and resources on creating the wide array of tightly targeted Internet and mobile products that represent the future for their franchises.
Why feds can’t – and shouldn’t – rescue press
Alan Mutter gives his reasons why the federal government should not try some sort of journalism bailout.
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Government can’t, and shouldn’t, do anything about the stupendous – and lamentable – reversal of fortune that has scourged newsrooms, squeezed newsholes and shuttered such proud titles as the Rocky Mountain News and Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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no similar argument can be made for newspapers, which collectively employ a mere 0.2% of the nation’s labor force and generate only 0.36% of the gross national product. In other words, newspapers, from an economic point of view, are not too big to be allowed to fail.
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Do Not Blame Google, Newspapers Have Not Evolved
Louis Gray's got a guest blogger, Rob Diana of "Regular Geek," who offers this semi-outsider's perspective of the newspaper crisis.
The reboot of journalism
Dave Winer says we are in the middle of the journalism revolution, not at the beginning, and that direct information from sources (not told to a reporter and then published) is the future of the news ecosystem.
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Apparently I am one of the very few who think we're in the middle of the reboot of journalism, not at the start.
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Add Sticky NoteIf this were the transport industry, it's as if I were recommending that the NY Central railroad make an investment in Trans World Airlines. Or that UPS invest in FedEx. I still don't think it's too late, but the time is very short, it seems.
- His message is that if you participate in the movement that undermines your business, you should have some say in how the movement evolves. - on 2009-03-24
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Newspaper Disaster? It's All My Fault. I'm The One
Phil Bronstein takes the blame for the newspaper crisis and suggests that massive partnerships between papers is the solution.
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The potential for journalism was big, but it probably struck some of us as more of a cool circus act than the actual future.
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I really didn't know what was charging down that cliched superhighway right at us like a huge, flaming truck bomb filled with a million electronic ball bearings.
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"They Hate Us Out There"
Some people think the death of newspapers is a good thing, and they're rooting for that outcome.
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While some of us think the existing newspaper business model is fatally flawed, we love journalism and we're working hard along with a lot of other good people to transition the media business to something more sustainable. But there are probably just as many–or more–people rooting heartily for papers and journalism to fail, for political reasons.
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Twenty-five years ago, a smart professor and editor of mine named Charles "Puff" Puffenbarger told me something about news audiences that I'll always remember: "They hate us out there." It appears that's true more now than ever.
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