May 14, 2024
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Local -- not long ago the domain of newspaper, TV and radio behemoths so dominant that barriers to entry made competition seem unthinkable -- is now open territory, a vacuum to be filled by a combination of youthful journalistic energy and state-of-the-art technology.
Read MoreImportant Details: As public and private sparring picks up in pace between daily news producers and Google, we’re learning more about the emerging habits of news readers. In Outsell’s just-published survey of U.S. news readers (News Users, 2009, Dec. 10, 2009), we see a cementing ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Think “hybrid” today and you think Toyota Prius, the first part-gasoline, part-electric car to become a certified success, a model. We put out of our minds the dozens of part-this, part-that vehicles that proceeded it, and ended up quietly in the dustbin of ...
Read MoreWe're fumbling for words, non-profit, for-profit, angels, foundations, funders, members. Those are all means to do good journalism. We just need to focus on the end -- paying experienced and newbie journalists to do good work -- and get less caught up in the cross-fire of the how. There won't ...
Read MoreImportant Details: In December, CNN will host a three-day meeting at its Atlanta headquarters for newspaper editors. The goal: sign them up for the cable network’s new wire service. CNN, in its letter, to editors emphasizes its global reach: “Like most major news organizations, CNN ...
Read MoreImportant Details: As soon as entrepreneur Sam Zell closed on the Tribune Company transaction, taking the third largest US news publisher private at the end of 2007, he promised new thinking applied to old newspaper problems. Zell has sold one major Tribune asset – Newsday – to ...
Read MoreSam, I get it. You’re being aggressive. When you add to Randy Michaels’ aggressive talk about cutting newspaper size and staff that “I promise you he is underestimating the level of aggressiveness with which we are attacking this whole challenge,” you seem to be proudly ...
Read MoreYou’ve had the sensation. You DVR up last night’s The Daily Show or Colbert Report, expecting some laughs and relaxation, and you get them. But you get more: You get news reporting, stealthy news reporting that pretends to be comedy, but is actual news. Last week, I loved Jon ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The Knight Foundation, emerging as a vital node in pushing forward digital journalism, is going younger and more global in its recent grants. The foundation, with more than $2.5 billion in assets, has funded traditional journalism projects, many academically-based, over the ...
Read MoreConsider the new Big City American journalism and the emerging cast of characters owning it. It’s a page right out of the history books when a few well-heeled titans controlled the press, and its new incarnation could have all kinds of implications for the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, for ...
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