May 15, 2024
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So the newspaper industry is taking a page from indie film ("A Day Without a Mexican"), dailies are hiring execs from the alternative press, and we're seeing new, almost-daily, mating rituals between older and newer news media. What's going on? Nine questions to start: How ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Metro dailies are getting some unexpected competition. Friday, the New York Times launched a new regional edition for the San Francisco Bay Area. The Times’ existing 10-person Bay Area bureau will now produce additional regional coverage. That coverage is now found on ...
Read MoreTired of playing defense and readying itself for offense, the New York Times’ formal announcement of its San Francisco “edition” this week shows us how a world is moving and how the Times and Wall Street Journal (which also will offer an SF edition soon) is taking their battle to a city near you.
Read MoreImportant Details: San Francisco financier Warren Hellman has announced one of the most ambitious independent online news start-ups. He’s putting up seed money of $5 million with plans to hire “dozens of journalists” to cover the news in and around San Francisco. Hellman has ...
Read MoreFor daily newspapers, the growth of alternative journalisms is both a promise and a threat. It's a promise of getting high-quality, low-cost (California Watch charged even large metros just a few hundred dollars, though it is reviewing its business models going forward), without having to pay ...
Read MoreIf there's a better realpolitiks player in the news industry than Murdoch, please stand up. If not, Murdoch knows that News Corp putting up a pay wall would be akin to unilateral disarmament -- and that's something only pinkos do. Put on up a pay wall when many others improve their ...
Read MoreBy my calculation, readers (print and/or online) of news from U.S. newspaper companies will see about three quarters of a million stories fewer in 2009 than they did in say, 2006, before this big round of cuts began. I get to the number starting with ASNE's census number of 8300 newsroom jobs ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Take two reports, one issued in the U.S. and one in the U.K. within the last month, and you can see the fundamental foment within the news trade. That foment continues to blur the lines between profit-based and non-profit-based journalism. On June 16, the British government ...
Read More$128 million is a significant number – but it may be just a drop in the bucket of what’s to come. Sources tell me that major foundations – some that have previously considered “news and information” to be fairly far afield from their philanthropic mandates – are talking about the large sums of ...
Read MoreImportant Details: During the US election, news watchers and listeners could hardly avoid Politico. The two-year-old political news company placed its commentators throughout cablecasters’ talkfests and on public radio. On TV, its bright banner backgrounded its representatives, and soon ...
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