I can remember when I first thought seriously about Twitter. Last March, I was at the SXSW conference, a conclave in Austin, Tex., where technology, media and music are mashed up and re-imagined, and, not so coincidentally, where Twitter first rolled out in 2007. As someone who was oversubscribed on Facebook, overwhelmed by the computer-generated RSS feeds of news that came flying at me, and swamped by incoming e-mail messages, the last thing I wanted was one more Web-borne intrusion into my life.
¿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
Mario Anzuoni/Reuters “Avatar,” a homage to both the perils and the dominance of technology, has people all over the globe donning goofy glasses in order to witness its wonders.
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.
Networks blur policy of not paying for interviews | David Bauder, AP, 3/1/10
Policies forbidding payment for news interviews increasingly seem like the network television equivalent of the 55 mph speed limit: a rule often winked at unless you’re heading into a speed trap.
The Biggest Mistake of Journalism Professionalism | Robert Piccard, The Media Business, 2/1/10
Efforts to professionalize journalism began early in the twentieth century as a response to the hyper commercialization of newspapers and the “anything goes” approach to news that emerged in the late nineteenth century as a means of increasing street sales through sensationalism, twisting the truth, and outright lies.