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At the AEJMC conference, Richard Karpel, executive director of the ASNE, provided an assessment of the state of the newspaper industry in the US. He said the US had 1,400 daily newspapers. In 2009, the industry had lost 5,200 jobs, about 11% of full time jobs. This compares to 5,900 job losses in 2008 Now [...]
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13 May 2010In my latest post for PBS Mediashift, I discuss two recent developments in the Canadian media landscape. This week was marked by the purchase of the Canwest newspapers and the launch of OpenFile: Two Canadians took a gamble that local news still matters this week. The two represent the hopes of both old and new [...]
The third panel at International Online Journalism Symposium tackled the big one: how can newspaper companies survive in the digital era. Session chair Earl Wilkinson, executive director and CEO, International Newsmedia Marketing Association (INMA), set the tone by talking about headlines predicting the death of newspapers. But in his view, newspapers are facing an economic [...]
It’s not often that I have myself in agreement with The Daily Mail. But it made a good case for staying free on the web in its presentation to shareholders at an investor day on Monday 19 April. The slides of the day provide an outline of the publisher’s strategy. Among the key points on [...]
An amusing and poignant video about newspapers by cartoonist Ted Rall and David Essman, entitled Stop the Presses: How to Save Newspapers. [youtube p7qd8v8v2qk] (Via Rob Cottingham)
Paul Steiger gave an insight into the first two years of ProPublica at a talk in Toronto on Monday. The CEO of the investigative journalism non-profit said they were “a year ahead” of where they had expected to be. The initial challenges were brand recognition, getting partners and concerns about bias due to its left-leaning [...]
We shouldn’t be surprised by the fact that most of news still comes from traditional sources. This is the conclusion of a study in the US by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. It found that most original reporting still comes from primarily newspapers, followed by television and radio, despite the proliferation of digital media. [...]
The Globe and Mail has beefed up its digital news operation, with the appointment of Anjali Kapoor in the newly-created position of Managing Editor, Digital, and the return of Kenny Yum as Editor, globeandmail.com. Image by cfarivar via Flickr The changes were announced by the Globe’s John Stackhouse in an e-mail to staff, saying: These [...]
Image by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ via Flickr Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt encapsulated the challenge facing newspapers in an interview with the FT (only available to subscribers). He highlighted that there was always an uncomfortable relationship between news gathering and the profitability model. News, itself, did not produce revenue. Profits came from the bundling of news with [...]
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