Alan Rusbridger is a busy man on two sides of the Atlantic. The editor of the Guardian seems to be everywhere, writing, tweeting, and leading the paper’s ongoing coverage of the British phone hacking scandal that continues to pick off executives and editors of Rupert Murdoch’s News International. Meanwhile, on this side of the water,… [Read more…]
May 31, 2012
There was some consternation in the media industry this week when the Chicago Tribune announced that it was letting more than 20 of its journalists go and handing over its local coverage to an outfit called Journatic, which looked to some like a “content farm” not unlike AOL’s hyper-local Patch unit. Meanwhile, Wired magazine wrote… [Read more…]
May 5, 2012
by John Bethune I’m sure there were at least a few journalists who took offense at Gap marketing chief Seth Farbman telling an audience earlier this week that marketers are more honest than journalists. In his former life as a journalist, Farbman said, “I always had the sense that I was creating information, but the… [Read more…]
April 18, 2012
In the short time during whichThe Leveson Inquiry in Britain has been investigating the practice of phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s News International employees, the revelations have been as shocking as the resignations have been numerous. Unscrupulous editors, crooked reporters, bribe-accepting policemen, corrupt government officials, the head of Scotland Yard, the News of the World itself:… [Read more…]
April 12, 2012
These are extraordinary times. These are exciting times. There has been tremendous disruption, but let’s consider the huge positives that underly that disruption. There are no longer the same barriers to publishing: everyone has a printing press, and there are no gatekeepers. There are new ways for people to both consume and share news. There… [Read more…]
March 19, 2012
by: Kristina Ackermann This year, Editor & Publisher once again placed an open call for readers to submit their ideas, projects, and new ways of thinking that are helping them push through the difficult economic climate and put some dollars back in their wallets, and once again we were impressed with the results. Publishers from… [Read more…]
March 19, 2012
by: Nu Yang Even though today’s reader wants to find the latest headlines immediately with just a click of a button, Britain’s satirical newspaper Private Eye has stuck by the phrase “hot off the press” for 50 years. The newspaper doesn’t publish online — if you want to read its content, you have to buy… [Read more…]
March 14, 2012
Online-native news operations share a dependent, interconnected relationship with one other, linking, excerpting, and building on one another’s work. It’s that structure that lends itself to people using terms like “ecosystem” when they talk about the state of online media. But if I remember my high school biology right, most ecosystems are clearly defined by… [Read more…]
March 5, 2012
The Industry Looking Ahead March 5, 2012 Given the uncertainties of the moment, we asked the newspaper officials to project what their industry might look like five years down the road. There were a variety of answers. The most common scenario was that the newspaper would be printed and delivered to people’s homes less frequently,… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012
This is a guest post by Max Tatton-Brown, a technology PR consultant at EML Wildfire and blogger at MaxTB.com Despite something of a shaky UK launch, it’s hard to deny that The Huffington Post is on to something. In a world where content is king, it has discovered a way to make money by curating… [Read more…]
February 6, 2012
Digital First journalists think creatively and individually, so this is a post that can’t be completely true. To whatever extent my observations here are true, Digital First journalists will reflect wide variety in the degree and application of the ideas and views I describe here. But I think these are ways many Digital First journalists… [Read more…]
January 29, 2012
In early 2005, a researcher at the Poynter Institute published a column that was instantaneously read and—by many—misunderstood. Rick Edmonds, who studies the financial side of the news business for Poynter’s website, speculated about how long it would take for online newspaper revenue to match the dollars brought in by the print side. He… [Read more…]
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