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Mr. Murdoch Goes to War
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It doesn’t matter much to a fully integrated media conglomerate like News Corporation how its customers choose to access this content, as long as the transaction pays.
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One of the first strong messages Journal reporters and editors received from their new owners was that Murdoch wants scoops. He wants his reporters out in front of every competitor on the planet.
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BBC - Peston's Picks: What future for media and journalism?
BBC business editor Richard Preston's comments at the Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture, Aug. 29, 2009, in Edinburgh. Preston talks about a lot of things pertaining to financial journalism, but also the importance of blogging to his workflow.
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But although individual news organisations are probably in general weaker, facing both greater financial pressures and more competition than ever, the power of individual stories - and I suppose of journalists, from time to time - has increased. When a story takes off on the internet, as they have many times in respect of the credit crunch over the past couple of years, it's a massive worldwide explosion.
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For me, the blog is at the core of everything I do, it is the bedrock of my output. The discipline of doing it shapes my thoughts. It disseminates to a wider world the stories and themes that I think matter. But it also spreads the word within the BBC - which is no coincidence, because it started life as an internal email for editors and staff. It gives me unlimited space to publish the kind of detail on an important story that I can't get into a three minute two-way on Today or a two-minutes-forty-seconds package on the Ten O'Clock News.
It connects me to the audience in a very important way. The comments left by readers contain useful insights - and they help me understand what really matters to people. That is not to say that I give them only what they want. I retain an old-fashioned view that in the end the licence fee pays for my putative skills in making judgements about what matters. Most important of all, the blog allows me and the BBC to own a big story and create a community of interested people around it. Sharing information - some of it hugely important, some of it less so - with a big and interested audience delivers that ownership and creates that committed community.
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12 Things Newspapers Should Do to Survive
Those who think there is one silver bullet to fix the newspaper business are mistaken. Newspapers have almost always had multiple streams of revenue to support themselves and the future will likely not be any different.
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Newspapers are often still treating their websites as an afterthought because their advertising revenue is largely still coming from print. At the same time, the shift to getting more revenue from websites won’t happen until the websites are the first priority.
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Reporters need to focus on primarily gathering information and how to present that information in multiple formats: websites, mobile platforms, social networks and finally print.
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2020 vision: What's next for news
Dan Conover guides us through a pretty reasonable tour of what he thinks the next decade of journalism is going to look like, and you know what? The Internet is a big deal. Shocking.
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the first meaningful test won't come until a major American city
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Newspapers may be failing, but most do a passable job of limiting serious competition in their markets. What succeeds in the shadow of an established metro, therefore, may not be what ultimately winds up contending for the market positions vacated by Old Media giants.
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Old Growth Media And The Future Of News
This is the Steven Berlin Johnson speech that I wrote about in my blog post on March 22.
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What’s happened with technology and politics is happening elsewhere too, just on a different timetable. Sports, business, reviews of movies, books, restaurants – all the staples of the old newspaper format are proliferating online. There are more perspectives; there is more depth and more surface now. And that’s the new growth. It’s only started maturing.
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Now there’s one objection to this ecosystems view of news that I take very seriously. It is far more complicated to navigate this new world than it is to sit down with your morning paper. There are vastly more options to choose from, and of course, there’s more noise now. For every Ars Technica there are a dozen lame rumor sites that just make things up with no accountability whatsoever. I’m confident that I get far more useful information from the new ecosystem than I did from traditional media along fifteen years ago, but I pride myself on being a very savvy information navigator. Can we expect the general public to navigate the new ecosystem with the same skill and discretion?
Let’s say for the sake of argument that we can’t. Let’s say it’s just too overwhelming for the average consumer to sort through all the new voices available online, to separate fact from fiction, reporting from rumor-mongering. Let’s say they need some kind of authoritative guide, to help them find all the useful information that’s proliferating out there in the wild.
If only there were some institution that had a reputation for journalistic integrity that had a staff of trained editors and a growing audience arriving at its web site every day seeking quality information. If only…
Of course, we have thousands of these institutions. They’re called newspapers.
What’s a medium?
Are all media converging? Does it matter whether you're a print, broadcast or radio journalist anymore?
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They all learn how to gather news and tell stories in audio, video, blogs, live blogs, wikis, Twitter, social tools, and whatever comes next. Of course, they also learn the eternal verities of journalism and techniques of reporting and writing. They are now exposed to the fundamentals of the business of journalism. As they progress through other classes in their subject specialties, they are required to create stories in various media.
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We also watched our students from any track work in any track. And we’re getting better (and still need to get better) at requiring work in many media throughout the program.
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The end of paper?
The ink-stained publishing world is battling against companies like Google and Yahoo that sell ads via any Internet-friendly gadget. And we know how that fight is going: The buy-ink-by-the-barrel types are struggling.
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Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. Mark Twain's advice was apt in its time but sounds downright quaint these days.
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Add Sticky NoteIndustry insiders say Hearst is close to launching a wireless e-reader with a large screen tailored to the newspaper and magazine industry.
- Could we be looking at a future in which every publication puts out its own e-reader? Rather than going to the newsstand to buy a copy of Newsweek or Fortune, you'd simply buy that mag's e-reader once and then update it with fresh content as desired. - on 2009-03-04
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Three Ways the Media is Innovating with New Interfaces
Micro Persuasion shows us three ways that media Web sites are using innovative interfaces
Print newspapers may die, but investigative reporting must be saved
Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres at the Guardian argue that saving the way news is distributed (on paper) is far less important than ensuring that news coverage and investigative journalism are safe.
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There is a third way out. We urge democracies throughout the world to consider the creation of national endowments for journalism that are carefully designed to confront the impending collapse of investigative reporting.
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It will take decades to revitalise investigative journalism if we allow the present corps of reporters to disintegrate. This is happening at an alarming rate.
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The demise of newspapers means better journalism
Jim Stovall believes journalism itself will improve even as the old media decline.
- Stovall says we can expect more reporting, more reporters, different ways of telling a story, the recognition that journalism happens outside of traditional news organizations, more respect for the audience, better writing and better reporting from the new digital age. - superjaberwocky on 2009-02-08
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But the medium they work so hard to produce -- the paper -- is holding back journalism from doing the best job that it can for society. The sooner the paper is gone, the better.
Scoopless in Seattle: P-I beat on own sad news
The only insult that can compound the injury of having your newspaper shot out from under you is to hear the news first from a competing television station.
Networked link journalism: A revolution quietly begins in Washington state
The discussion about journalism’s future so often focuses on Big Changes — Kill the print edition! Flips for everyone! Reinvent business models NOW! — that it’s easy to forget how simple innovation can be.
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Forget walled gardens — this is the spirit of journalism’s future.
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In some ways the networked linking process is an extension of how newsrooms collaborate with traditional wire services, but I think the Washington project is more than that. Papers using a traditional wire service aren’t really collaborating. They’re primarily trying to a) extend the reach of their stories, and b) get access to material they can’t afford to produce on their own.
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Digital guru Clay Shirky's media forecast and predictions for 2009
A self-confessed 'pretty unlikely early adopter', the digital guru Clay Shirky still proved to be uncannily prescient about the impact of the web - which is why Tom Teodorczuk is getting his media forecast for 2009
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Yet he foresees that a recession may produce greater industry clarity by forcing radical action, which he explains as a boss saying to staff: "'Bonfire, this is Hail Mary time!', instead of: 'This year we made as much money as last year but we're still restructuring dramatically.'"
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"As with the printing press, the loss of professional control will be bad for many of society's core institutions," he writes.
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Dailies go Darwin
If you're a tree, you're probably feeling pretty good right now. We've long known that the traditional newspaper — a hard-copy compendium of the previous day's events, printed on an obscene amount of wood byproduct — was terminally ill.
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But the term "newspaper" has another meaning, too: it's an organization staffed with men and women who report and analyze the news for the public. Newspapers in this sense aren't about to go extinct. They are being reinvented, however. And judging from the almost unthinkable changes that transpired on the media landscape this past year — particularly over the past few months — this reinvention will reach unprecedented heights in 2009, with once-sacrosanct forms and practices being abruptly jettisoned and new models and methods assuming starring roles. As with biological evolution, some of this change will be beautiful, some of it will be ugly, and some of it will just . . . be. Here's a preview.
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consider what Detroit Free Press publisher David Hunke recently told National Public Radio: "We think it's time to quit sticking our heads a bit in the sand [and] taking incremental steps . . . in the name of hoping that it comes back to the way it used to be in years gone by."
Goodbye hyperlocal, hello microlocal
Adrian Holovaty points out that "hyperlocal" has a very fluid definition and gets used in a lot of situations where the word "local" would do just as well. Holovaty proposes a new and more precise term: "microlocal."
The Internet Is Bad For The Truth
The Internet, by its nature, destroys that shaping experience by which countries or cultures live a "moment" together, writes columnist Melik Kaylan.
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We confront a bewildering sea change in mass communications, and nobody seems to have clue where we're headed.
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The gatekeepers had served the vital function of filtering, marketing and branding talent. By creating celebrity, they'd helped focus the attention of mass audiences toward shared tastes, shared cultural experiences and, ultimately, shared values (however dubious).
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Principles for a New Media Literacy
Media are becoming democratized. Digital media tools, increasingly cheap and ubiquitous, have spawned a massive amount of creation at all levels, most notably from the ranks of the grassroots in contrast to traditional, one-to-many publications and broadcasts. The networks that made this possible have provided vast access to what people have created — potentially a global audience for anyone’s creation.
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Media are becoming democratized. Digital media tools, increasingly cheap and ubiquitous, have spawned a massive amount of creation at all levels, most notably from the ranks of the grassroots in contrast to traditional, one-to-many publications and broadcasts. The networks that made this possible have provided vast access to what people have created — potentially a global audience for anyone’s creation.
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Digital media tools, increasingly cheap and ubiquitous, have spawned a massive amount of creation at all levels, most notably from the ranks of the grassroots in contrast to traditional, one-to-many publications and broadcasts.
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MediaShift Idea Lab: News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age
Commentary from PBS's MediaShift Idea Lab on the Center for Internet & Society's recently released series of papers on the challenges of the networked and the digital to journalism.
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There is enormous potential to expand the reach of journalism and to bring it closer to the people who need it.
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The tools that enable new kinds of reporting, flexible ways to combine information, and networks that connect people to information and to each other are getting better.
Berkman Publication Series - Media Republic
Over the past year, researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society have reached out to a broad range of media experts to help in this assessment of the changes in new media over the past several years and to take a sober look at the successes and ongoing challenges.
Trademark, Schmademark
Copy editor Bill Walsh takes issue with most of the decorative capitalization and punctuation in company logos. In short, journalists should be grownups and write company names based on grammatical rules, not on how PR flacks and lawyers say they should b
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