A recent Harrison Group study of today’s media environment has found that traditional media may be more resilient than expected in today’s fast evolving media enviornment. According to Ed Moran, director of product innovation in Deloitte’s New York office, in this report in Ad Week: […]
An interesting story in the Columbia Journalism Review asked those who were layed off from the newsroom at the Dallas Morning News if they were better off for it. Some interesting perspectives. According to writers Craig Flournoy & Tracy Everbach, “We surveyed almost half of […]
Here is the lead from the recent story in the New York Review of Books by Russell Baker: “The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. It has lost […]
I read this report in my local paper this morning and about dropped my coffee. I never thought when I was studying journalism and working hard to understand the craft of writing and reporting in college that I would one day read that local journalism […]
It’s hard to watch as newspapers adjust to current market conditions. Will other forms of trusted journalism fill the void being left by struggling newspapers? A couple of stories shows the continuing drama, both from the New York Times. First, the Philadelphia Inquirer is considering […]
A new one from Jib Jab called “What We Call the News.” As always, it’s very funny, but there’s a little too much truth here.
We don’t need journalists, right? Is this the future of news-gathering? I have great respect for Professor Rosen, but I am not sure about this latest experiment. We’ll see. To me, this may produce something that’s very popular, but is this a measure of successful […]
I really like what Juliet Goodfriend has to say about a liberal education in her presentations. In this article, reporter Jeff Ignatius summarizes what she tells business leaders around the country: that many people with business undergraduate degrees won’t have the critical-thinking and communication skills […]
A new study has found that publishers who invest more in their newsrooms actually create more profitable newspapers. The report, issued by the University of Missouri, questions the accepted wisdom that publishers must cut jobs to save costs. “The authors of the University of Missouri-Columbia […]
An interesting essay in The Nation from John Nichols on the role of newspapers. He writes: “Newspapers may be the dinosaurs of America’s new-media age, hulking behemoths that cost too much to prepare and distribute and that cannot seem to attract young–or even middle-aged–readers in […]