Conventional wisdom is that if today’s newspapers want to survive, they’re going to have to ditch their printing presses, delivery trucks, and most of their staff, and learn to do more with less in an online-only world.
“Una buena historia siempre venderá: en cualquier soporte” | Lluís Amiguet entrevista a Michael Eisner, La Vanguardia, Barcelona, 19/6/09
Con salud, tu edad depende de tus ganas de vivir. He presidido la ABC, la Disney y la Paramount, pero lo difícil ha sido ser padre de tres hijos, ¡y aun con la misma esposa! La gran película de este siglo se producirá para internet. Colaboro con el salón HiT de Fira de Barcelona
New Business Models for News Project | Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 19/6/09
The New Business Models for News Project is now well underway at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. Here’s the blog and below is the post explaining our work:
What Are The New Obligations Of Readers? (Chris O’Brien, MediaShift, IdeaLab, 17/6/09)
A few weeks ago, I was reading an interesting story about the state of the Columbia Journalism School that appeared on the New York Magazine website. In short, the story tried to examine concerns about how well Columbia was making the transition to the digital journalism era.
J-Schools: Breeding Ground for Fertile Failure (Ryan Thornburg, The Future of News, 15/6/09)
For a lot of very good reasons the word “failure” is not welcome in newsrooms. The aversion probably begins in j-schools when we give automatic Fs to students who write news stories about “Thornberg” or “Thornburgh” instead of “Thornburg,” it continues with 2 a.m. panic attacks about transposing quotes, and probably calcifies completely with the fear of being sued for libel. In short, journalists don’t get paid for making mistakes. Good. They shouldn’t.
Kirchner versus la prensa (Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Wall Street Journal, 15/6/09)
Tras el colapso económico de 2001-2002 en Argentina, el Congreso le otorgó al poder ejecutivo inmensos poderes aduciendo que las circunstancias requerían medidas extraordinarias por parte del gobierno.
The real cost of genuine journalism (Frédéric Filloux, Monday Note, 14/6/09)
The idea for this column came to me last March; I was flying back from Stockholm. Schibsted, the Norwegian media group I work for, had asked me to be part of the jury for its yearly Schibsted Journalism Award. I was both honored and curious to be part of such a delicate process. The group’s publications, in Scandinavia and abroad, submitted entries in several categories: best storytelling, best innovative entry, best scoop. Altogether, 27 entries were compiled in a hefty kit sent by Fedex to each member of the jury; the kit included a couple of binders — facsimile of original pages, translation in English, CDs, memory stick, etc. Serious work. Then, we gathered in Stockholm to select the nominees and the winners.
The New Journalism (Curt Mercadante, MercStrategy, 14/6/09)
jour·nal·ism: the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media.
10 Steps to Saving Newspapers (Mark Glaser, MediaShift, 11/6/09)
Being in the hospital on an I.V. for a number of days put me in touch with the suffering of newspapers. I was down but not out. I have polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and one of my cysts had ruptured, causing severe pain and the temporary loss of kidney functioning in my right kidney. Not fun.
The Inheritance (Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair, junio 09)
Iwas in a taxi on a wet winter day in Manhattan three years ago when my phone rang, displaying “111-111-1111,” the peculiar signature of an incoming call from The New York Times.
Ten questions for journalists in the era of overload (Matt Thompson, Newsless.org, 10/6/09)
In the conversations about the seismic shifts rocking journalism today, much has been said about community participation in journalism, the proliferation of multimedia storytelling formats, the rise of mobile platforms and the departure of traditional advertising vehicles. Less has been said about how these developments relate to another fundamental shift in the landscape — our society’s 180-degree reversal from being starved of information to being drowned in it. But now that study after study has reinforced this fact, news industry leaders are starting to wrap their minds around adapting journalism to the overload age.
Does journalism create value? | Mindy McAdams, Teaching OnLine Journalism, 8/6/09
Robert G. Picard impressed me as an awesomely smart person when I first saw him speak at a small online journalism conference a few years ago. Later I found out that he’s well-known and respected in the field of media economics. Last month an essay of his was published with the headline Why journalists deserve low pay — provocative, yes, but not exactly representative of the full contents of Picard’s argument. (A more enticing headline than mine here, surely.)
Does journalism create value? (Mindy McAdams, Teaching OnLine Journalism, 8/6/09)
Robert G. Picard impressed me as an awesomely smart person when I first saw him speak at a small online journalism conference a few years ago. Later I found out that he’s well-known and respected in the field of media economics. Last month an essay of his was published with the headline Why journalists deserve low pay — provocative, yes, but not exactly representative of the full contents of Picard’s argument. (A more enticing headline than mine here, surely.) Continuar leyendo
The Wall Street Journal is considering a “hyperpaid” model. Will it work? (Meghan Keane, OnLine Marketing Blog, 8/6/09)
Speaking at the Digiday: Networks conference in New York, Brian Quinn, the Journal’s vice president of digital ad sales, said that the newspaper is so happy with its subcription results that it is looking to push the website toward a “hyperpaid” model. And Quinn said that there are initiatives across Newscorp trying to try to get people to pay even more for its content.
Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture (Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 7/6/09)
An alarm went off on some desk at The New York Times business section: Oh-oh, time to slam blogs again. But the latest assault reveals as much about The Times and the culture of classical journalism as it does about bloggers. Like the millennial clash of business models in media - the content economy v. the link economyand the inability of one to understand the other - here we see a clash over journalistic culture and methods - product journalism v. process journalism.
Get Out of the Printing Business, Moody’s Tells Newspapers (Mark Fitzgerald, Editor & Publisher, 4/6/09)
Unless newspapers can figure out how to reduce their high fixed costs of printing and circulation, their already low credit ratings could fall even farther, Moody’s Investors Service warns in a report relased Thursday.