If A Wind Blows, Ride It | Rupert Murdoch @ Abu Dhabi Media Summit
At the opening speech of the first Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Rupert Murdoch is exhorting Arab nations to open up and let creative talents flow. Of course, he has his own agenda in mind: open it up to our content as well. This is the show-me-the-money quote: “When we look to the future, News Corporation is betting on the creative potential of the more than 335 million people who make up the Arab world.”
Internet le gana a los diarios | Roberto Guareschi, postPeriodismo, 7/3/10
Internet pasó a los diarios y a la radio. En Estados Unidos internet ya es la segunda plataforma elegida para obtener noticias: sólo le gana la televisión. Los datos corresponden a Estados Unidos y son el resultado de una vasta encuesta hecha por el Pew Research Center. ¿Previsibles? Sí, pero confirman cuán fuertes e irreversibles son los cambios en el territorio del periodismo y sugieren cómo puede ser el futuro allá y acá.
Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” | Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch, 6/3/10
Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown. Marc Andreessen has the same advice for old media companies: “Burn the boats.”
Pensemos en grande | Roberto Guareschi, postPeriodismo, 28/2/10
East Village es menos de la mitad de Palermo Viejo. Al sureste de Manhattan, es un barrio con potencia cultural. Siempre cobijó a artistas y creativos: el poeta Allen Ginsberg, el poeta y músico Bob Dylan, el escritor W.H. Auden, la icónica Madonna. En pocos meses más va a ser ámbito de una experiencia que puede ser innovadora en el periodismo.
La carrera periodística | Roberto Guareschi, Perfil, 21/2/10
Días atrás, un periodista joven, con un cargo importante en un diario de papel, me contó que no sabía si aceptar una propuesta de un nuevo medio digital. En momentos como ése, evaluamos nuestro pasado (el capital profesional que ponemos en juego) y nuestro probable futuro (la eventual ganancia). Es nuestra “carrera” la que intentamos planificar.
A quasi-utopian vision of journalism’s future | Michael Schudson, USC Annenberg, 11/2/10
I want to propose to you this evening a quasi-utopian vision of journalism’s future. It is utopian because it pictures a better array of public informational resources emerging now than we have ever had. As I will argue, this is in part a product of the Internet; but it is also in part a product of a surprisingly recent professionalization in journalism; a remarkable profitability of news organizations in recent decades; and a cultural presumption of public-ness that began to emerge in the 1960s.
Tomás | Martín Caparrós, Crítica, 5/2/10
“¿Quién nos dirá de quién, en esta casa, sin saberlo nos hemos despedido?”.
Son versos, son de Borges, encabezan el primer gran libro de Tomás Eloy Martínez. En la página inicial de Lugar común la muerte resuena la pregunta: ¿Quién nos dirá de quién, en esta casa, sin saberlo nos hemos despedido? ¿Quién será el que se ha muerto ahora que, muerto, les ha quedado a los vivos? ¿Quién será aquel que fue, ya ajeno de sí mismo?
¿Mejor tarde que nunca? | Jorge Fontevecchia, Perfil, 23/1/10
El fin de semana pasado le envié un mail a Miguel Wiñazki, periodista, filósofo y jefe de Capacitación Periodística del diario Clarín. Wiñazki es también director de la carrera de Periodismo de la Universidad de Belgrano y profesor titular de Filosofía de esa universidad y de las universidades de La Plata, San Luis, Morón, Lomas de Zamora y Michigan, en Estados Unidos. Además, Miguel fue redactor jefe de la revista Noticias en sus comienzos, cuando me tocó dirigirla en la década de los 90, por lo que nos une la simpatía de quienes compartieron trinchera.
El Gobierno crea grupos de medios oficiales y ultrakirchneristas | Miguel Wiñazki, Clarín 15/1/10
Quedan pocas dudas del avance del Gobierno sobre los medios independientes. Y sobran las evidencias de la ofensiva oficialista: ley de medios, intentos de control de Papel Prensa y reparto discrecional de la publicidad, entre otros.
Earthquakes and Journalism | Steve Coll, The Newyorker, 14/1/10
Journalism is not a particularly esteemed profession, but its capacity to bear witness remains one of its more redeeming attributes. At moments like this in Haiti, a journalist’s function as a witness can be relatively uncomplicated, in comparison to, say, the processes of political or investigative reporting. In the field during a natural disaster of this scale, you do feel at times ghoulish and intrusive upon both the grief of survivors and in relation to the more directly useful efforts of rescuers and humanitarian relief workers. And yet all of those classes of participants in the crisis will recognize, most of the time, that journalism helpfully amplifies their own condition or potential.
How long can print newspapers last? | Alan Mutter, Reflections of a Newsosaur, 13/1/10
Actuarially speaking, the population of print newspaper readers will drop by nearly a third within 15 years and probably be less than half the size it is today by the time 2040 rolls around.
There is no new revenue model for journalism | Robert Niles, OJR, 12/1/10
For all those hopeful newspaper managers, searching for a new revenue model that will save good, old-fashioned newsroom journalism, I have a message for you:You’re wasting your time. Please, stop. There is no new revenue model for journalism.
John Paton on newspapers’ future | Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 11/1/10
Two newspaper companies hired new chiefs last week. The Star Tribune hired Michael Klingensmith, my former colleague at Entertainment Weekly, and Journal Register hired John Paton, now head of Spanish-language publisher impreMedia and a newspaperman with roots in Canada. The latter didn’t get the attention it deserved.
Teaching entrepreneurial journalism | Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 11/1/10
On Friday, we at CUNY had the honor of playing host to a conference (call) for more than two dozen educators around the world — New York to Arizona to Berkeley to Guadalajara to London to Oslo — who are teaching or starting to teach entrepreneurial journalism. Continuar leyendo
The Future of Journalism, Solved | Ravi Somaiya, Gawker, 11/1/10
A survey out today reveals that newspapers are still doing most of the original reporting that websites (like this one) rely on. But they’re still losing money, readers and relevance. The solution seems… simple.
We Are All Gadget Nerds Now | David Carr, NYTimes, 6/1/10
End of journalism as we know it | Kevin Marsh, Guardian.co.uk, 4/1/10
There’s no doubt the two-centuries-old business model in which we journalists paid our way by scribbling on the back of adverts, collecting pence from citizens who wanted to read it, has collapsed. As journalists, we find that grim. But, as citizens, we sometimes seem to like the idea that journalism is in trouble. We are liberated from the dictates of a trade that’s spent the last two decades retreating from servicing our basic civic needs, systematically shredding its right to mediate our public discourse, losing our trust as fast as it loses our attention.
Ten things every journalist should know in 2010 | John Thompson, Journalism.co.uk, 4/1/10
This is an update on a post I wrote at the beginning of last year – Ten things every journalist should know in 2009. I still stand by all those points I made then so consider the following 10 to be an addendum.
L’entrevue - Rue89, ou le journalisme neuf | Antoine Char, LeDevoir.com, 4/1/10
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A Savior in the Form of a Tablet | David Carr, NYTimes, 4/1/10
Last year about this time, I was talking with an executive from Apple about e-readers and print at a conference we were both attending, much of it in the context of the mainstream media’s original sin of giving away content if people happened to be reading it in digital form.