An amusing and poignant video about newspapers by cartoonist Ted Rall and David Essman, entitled Stop the Presses: How to Save Newspapers. (Via Rob Cottingham) Print
PDF 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 funders. Steiger admitted that the timing of ProPublica’s launch in 2008 had helped in setting
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. Newspapers accounted for two-thirds of new information, followed by TV at 28% and radio at
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 changes are very much driven by my desire to have an editorial management team that
Image by Simon Scarfe via Flickr The editor of the Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, is the latest senior figure to predict that media organisations are going be charging for online news. In a speech at a Media Standards Trust event in London, Barber said: How these online payment models work and how much revenue they can generate is still up in the air. But I confidently predict that within
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 advertising and other services: So the structure of newspapers that evolved, where the majority of
Journalists don’t tend to look back every often, which is why a session on 10 years of online journalism at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas is timely. The conference is celebrating its 10th anniversary, so on day two, the first panel looks at what has happened over the past 10 years and what the next decade holds. The panel brings together the people who were
The first afternoon panel at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas sought to answer the question: Is newsroom integration working? The response from Anthony Moor, Deputy Managing Editor/Interactive, Dallas Morning News was a blunt “No”. He highlighted two reasons for this. Firstly, what the newspaper is asking journalists to do is significantly different from what they are used to doing. So there is a skills gap
The Christian Science Monitor has produced a video to explain its mission now that it has abandoned a daily print product in favour of a shift to the web and a new print weekly. Print
The comprehensive look at the media in the US by the Project for Excellence in Journalism has just been published. The State of the News Media 2009 report paints a sombre picture: Journalism, deluded by its profitability and fearful of technology, let others outside the industry steal chance after chance online. By 2008, the industry had finally begun to get serious. Now the global recession has made that harder. This