Archive for October, 2008
Christian Science Monitor to cease publishing print newspaper
The Christian Science Monitor will end weekday publication of its print edition next April, concentrating on a daily Web model. The Monitor will also be adding a Sunday magazine. Please excuse the wildly-misleading New York Times headline that says the Monitor will be online only. In fact, the new magazine will cost more per issue [...]
Squandered profits, shattered brands: the tragedy of newspapers
When historians come to write the history of the newspaper industry over the last two decades, they’ll talk about how newspaper companies squandered it all with a series of unfortunate — and often short sighted — decisions. I want you to read what Alan Mutter had to say about newspapers in his latest blog post. [...]
Podcast: Monitor editor John Yemma on the future of newspapers
Click here to stream the interview. Or download the MP3. John Yemma, the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, discussed with me his thoughts on the future of newspapers in my latest podcast. Yemma and I discussed several topics. What’s clear is that newspapers will continue to evolve in the coming years as Web operations [...]
Today is the day for change in your newsroom
You don’t need a fancy new CMS, a new editor in chief, new business model or prayer to start innovating today. This month’s Carnival of Journalism, hosted by Will Sullivan over at Journerdism, asks a very pragmatic question: What are small, incremental steps one can make to fuel change in their media organization? Pragmatic questions [...]
What would you tell a journalism student?
What advice would you impart on today’s students? What would you say to students who are graduating this winter and next spring, during one of the worst economic times in recent memory? Would you comfort them? Would you tell them to flee? Would you tell them to believe? Would you be honest about how many [...]
I care about the message, not the medium
I got my start in newspapers, but I’m beginning to accept that their future isn’t very bright. I don’t think the same can be said of a lot of my newspaper colleagues. For many of them, the newspaper is what they truly love. I’m not married to newspapers. I never was, and I never will be. [...]
Is the downfall of newspapers really just a rebirth of journalism?
Newspaper ad revenues are again down by double digits, more newspapers are defaulting on debt and we’re entering one of the worst economic crises ever. Ad revenue will continue to dry up. Many traditional print advertisers (car dealers, real estate agents, etc) are facing tough times and some are going out of business. This economic [...]
Poll: Does your news organization use Twitter?
Does your news organization use Twitter? ( surveys)
Fire up the time machine – what would you do?
If you ran into yourself 10 years ago, what would you tell yourself about journalism? If you could go back 10 years and talk to your news organization’s editorial board and publisher, what would you tell them? Now take that advice and apply it to today. It’s only too late if we give up.
The online ethics seal: together we can be more transparent
At ONA 08 and a week later at Poynter Seminar on ethics, I talked about my online ethics seal idea. The idea is very simple — to form a series of ethics seals that Web sites, blogs and news organizations could embed on their Web sites. I want these seals to be in the same [...]