In a joint panel session of the World Newspaper Congress and the World Editors Forum on “How to tell the truth during a revolution,” moderator Magda Abu-Fadil, Director of Journalism Training Programme, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, discusses the many difficulties of reporting events such as the recent Arab uprisings Covering those events raises… [Read more…]
March 5, 2012
America’s news executives are hesitant about many of the alternative funding ideas being discussed for journalism today and are overwhelmingly skeptical about the prospect of government financing, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism in association with the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) and the Radio… [Read more…]
March 5, 2012
By Summer Harlow In “The Search for a New Business Model,” a new report released Monday, March 5, by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellency in Journalism, the study of revenue trends at U.S. newspapers shows that while print ad sales fell an average of 9 percent during the last year, digital ad revenue… [Read more…]
December 11, 2011
Jill Abramson is too busy to worry about her own appetite. She’s more concerned about other people’s appetites – specifically, her readers’ hunger for news. ANTHONY JENKINS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL It’s a concern that takes up all of her time now, just a couple of months into her new job as executive editor of The… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
Journal Register CEO John Paton has been a vocal opponent of using paywalls to increase digital revenue for newspapers, as have his advisory board members Jeff Jarvis, Emily Bell and Jay Rosen. But what happens now that he is also the CEO of MediaNews Group, which already has more than two dozen paywall experiments running,… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
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November 15, 2011
The Washington Post had its fourth straight quarter of declining revenue, announcing a $6.2 million loss for the third quarter of 2011 on Friday. That is a steep reversal from the company’s 2010 third quarter earnings, which saw the Post make a $60.9 million profit. The Post Co. recently instituted a free trial period for… [Read more…]
November 15, 2011
NEW YORK — Newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. said Tuesday that its revenue isn’t declining as much over the past two months. Its stock rose more than 5 percent on the news. McClatchy’s revenue fell 8 percent in April and May compared with a year earlier. That’s better than the 9.5 percent decline in the first… [Read more…]
November 13, 2011
For CJR’s fiftieth anniversary issue, we asked some of our favorite journalists, critics, and academics to help us compile a list of readings that would help the next generation of reporters become better observers, storytellers, and thinkers. Below, you’ll find the twenty respondents’ unabridged lists, presented in alphabetical order. A curated cumulative list can be… [Read more…]
October 28, 2011
“Transformation implies for me a complete change – out with old, in with new. As leaders, I don’t think it’s an appropriate image to paint for our colleagues,” he says. “We see the current business as still capable of significant growth, with multimedia growing alongside the business and not replacing it,” he says. “Many newspapers… [Read more…]
October 21, 2011
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — A preliminary count of shareholder votes by News Corp.late Friday showed that all directors to the media giant’s board were re-elected amid contention that several members should be replaced. But no final tally on the percentage of votes either for or against the directors was ready, the company said. Some investor… [Read more…]
October 21, 2011
The Economist’s email to freeloaders “Dear Reader, “We hope you have taken the opportunity to enjoy full access to The Economist online, The Economist on Android, iPhone and iPad and The Economist in audio, a range of benefits that are only available to subscribers. “Unfortunately, we have been providing you with full digital access in… [Read more…]
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