In five languages (English, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian) and two U.S. printing, “Newsonomics: Twelve Trends That Will Shape the News You Get” is the first Ken Doctor book. Sign up here for notice of the new Newsonomics Readers.
First published at Capital New York What might “60 Minutes” be like if it were launching in 2015? It might look—or really sound—a lot like “Reveal.” You may have bumped into “Reveal,” a first-of-its-kind regular radio investigative-journalism show, on your local public radio station ...
First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Gannett is right: Newsroom job titles do matter. (Related story: Newsonomics: Gannett’s Newsrooms’ Futures“) The largest newspaper company in the United States is revising its job titles, bringing in some that would have ...
Follow Newsonomics at @kdoctor First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab It’s tough to find a place with more news change than Portland, Oregon. At the center of that change is the new Oregonian. Like New Orleans, Cleveland, Syracuse, and most other Advance ...
In part, it’s about new niches being found and exploited. In part, it’s about responding to deep staff cuts at many newspapers. In part, it’s about a slow-dawning wave of new product creation, aided by the tablet. Each of the newer efforts sees the world a little differently, and that’s ...
Funding the journalism business isn’t like funding Sears and Kodak or other fading institutions. It’s not even about saving a perhaps-vital American industry, like the auto industry.It’s about keeping a lifeline of funding open so that our best reporters can do their jobs.
All we can say with certainty: we’re witnessing the death and life of California news. Who will own the biggest news media? Who will manage the biggest news media? How much of a life in print will be left for newspapers as they go digital? And, of course, how many journalists will be paid to ...
So, if California Watch were to be totally supported by foundation money, it would take an endowment of $54 million to throw off $2.7 million a year, at a five percent spend rate. Now $54 million raised one time isn’t an impossible sum. Consider just one gift: Joan Kroc left NPR more than $200 ...
Most significantly, I think, is the passion you can hear from those practicing the new, non-profit journalism. Freed from the visegrip of industry worry, they are doing the journalism, and you can hear the optimism in their voices. My issue here can still be summed up in one word: scale. That's ...
ProPublica offers a handy index of the aptly named "Investigations Elsewhere." Pulling from sources as diverse as the Wall Street Journal, Parade and Mothers Jones, and including major dailies around the country, it's a great showcase, and check-in on the state of longer-form investigative ...
California Watch may be a small supplement to their own staff production today. Yet, the lesson – you can buy high-quality journalism your audience will accept as your own – is a big one. For big daily newspapers, with large, costly staffs, the California Watch model is one that could be ...
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