Entry Posted March 12, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12papers.html More newspaper doom and gloom: it’s likely that soon, major US cities will be without a daily paper. See also David Simon’s recent article pointing out that there’s a bunch of things that citizen journalists can’t do, like get judges to badger police when they refuse to give out information. I think papers need to do a better job of complementing and acknowledging the other available sources of news and information, and place less emphasis on reporting the stuff that happened yesterday. A newspaper is a truly terrible source of up-to-the-minute news; there’s no sense pretending that nothing noteworthy ever happens between the time the paper is sent to press and the time a reader buys it. 23:32

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ortner online (www.ortneronline.at):
… CEO of the Aspen Institute, added, “It is now possible to contemplate a time when some major cities will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network-news operations will employ no more than a handful of reporters.” In a front-page New York Times storyMarch 12, Mike Simonton, a senior director at Fitch Ratings who focuses on media debt, predicted: “In 2009 and 2010, all the two- newspaper markets will become one-newspaper markets, and you will start to see one-newspaper markets become …

Abacaxi Mamão (abacaximamao.blogspot.com):
… - NYTimes.com [Kind of glad I didn't go to law school any of the many times someone told me that I should.] Endowment Director Is on Harvard's Hot Seat - NYTimes.com Findings - Oversaving, a Burden for Our Times - NYTimes.comFor Papers, a Downsizing Trickle Becomes a Flood - NYTimes.comHarvard: the Inside Story of Its Finance Meltdown - Forbes.com Humanities Ph.D.'s Are Anticipating Hard Times - NYTimes.com [Kind of glad I didn't go to grad school to get a PhD in History any of the many times someone told me that I should.] In a s …

Jornal Tribuna Popular (tribunapopular.wordpress.com):
… municipal, comissão municipal e conselho escolar. Eles também descobriram que as chances dos então membros da câmera e da comissão municipal de permanecer nos seus cargos aumentou, escreve Smolkin. Como muitos observadorespreviram o fim dos jornais, pequenas porém ambiciosas organizações online sem fins lucrativos apareceram em diversas cidades dos Estados Unidos para assumir o papel de cão de guarda, suplementar ou substituir as publicações tradicionais. Smolkin cita …

Tassieblather @ www.plimpton.org (euroblather.blogspot.com):
… March 12, 2009The New York TimesAs Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA The history of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer stretches back more than two decades before Washington became a state, but after 146 years of publishing, the paper is expected to pri …

歌田明弘の『地球村の事件簿』 (blog.a-utada.com):
… http://www.csmonitor.com/ )。 ●New Yrok Times,‘As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero’(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12papers.html) (週刊アスキー「仮想報道」Vol.579) …

czyslansky (www.czyslansky.net):
… oder mit anderen fusioniert hat. 15 haben sie noch - aber wie lange? Denver hat übrigens Glück: Es gibt dort noch eine zweite Tageszeitung, die Denver Post. Aber in Amerika wird schon die bange Frage diskutiert: Wer wird die erste “no-paper city” werden? San Franciso steht in den Wetten ganz oben: Dort steht die Zukunft des  Chronicle auf Messers Schneide.  Die Hearst-Gruppe hat schon mit der Schließung gedroht, wenn die Gewerkschaften nicht zu signifikanten …

Research (garywestmoreland.wordpress.com):
… Newspapers are like dinosaurs and the internet is the comet smashing into their lives… you need to see this post, read and think… Asthe crisisin newspaper journalism grinds on, people watching it are trying to explain how we got here, and what we’re losing as part of the newspaper economy crashes. Some are trying to imagine a new news system. I try to follow this action, and have been sending around the bes …

PressThink (journalism.nyu.edu):
… after Clay Shirky's Thinking the Unthinkable. Here's my best-of from a month of deep think as people came to terms with the collapse of the newspaper model, and tried looking ahead. I know these twelve links work. I tested them on Twitter. Asthe crisisin newspaper journalism grinds on, people watching it are trying to explain how we got here, and what we’re losing as part of the newspaper economy crashes. Some are trying to imagine a new news system. I try to follow this action, and have been sending around the bes …

The Stiletto (thestilettoblog.com):
… Interviewed for an article examining some of the root causes of the sorry state of the newspaper industry, Fitch Ratings analyst Mike SimontontellsThe New York Times “In 2009 and 2010, all the two-newspaper markets will become one-newspaper markets, and you will start to see one-newspaper markets become no-newspaper markets.” But a recent Pew study suggests that if Simonton’s dire prediction c …

SelectorX (www.selectorx.com):
… Image below is taken from this article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/12/business/20090312-papers-graphic.html Related article - As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zerohttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12papers.html?_r=1 …

Frescas e Boas (frescaseboas.blogspot.com):
… spaper companies into bankruptcy. The industry’s dwindling revenues have forced some money-losing papers to close, and papers that are for sale are havingtrouble finding buyers. Experts say that before long, a major American city could be left without a daily paper. (Related Article) …

The Impolitic (theimpolitic.blogspot.com):
… Song in my head. I've been battling a little burnout this week but I've reading the news and collecting links as always, so here's a few items you may have missed. With major metro newspapers shutting down all over the country, the legacy media is rightfullyconcerned about their future. Unfortunately they can't seem to see beyond their idealized vision of what they do. It's been long since "serious reporting" has been on their menu. Of course they blame the bloggers for creating a 24/7 rush for breaking news, but they're wrong. …

Green Taxi (www.greentaxi.com):
… The fact is, most publishers could survive right now if it weren’t for their outstanding debt. Profits are shrinking quickly as ad revenue decreases and circulation drops. Yet, most still make money on a day to day operating expense basis. Also,many analysts arguethat a major city newspaper going under would be “a terrible thing because that’s who does the bulk of the serious reporting.” I disagree with this view. The trained journalists will not disappear, they will merely move to a new publisher or go freelance. T …

Thoughts on business, engineering and higher education (engineered.typepad.com):
… newspapers recently. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently printed its last paper edition and shifted to a web-only model similar to the Christian Monitor's ( Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely To The Web, New York Times, March 16, 2009). A previousarticlein the NY Times has the states: "For papers, a downsizing trickle becomes a flood" (March 12, 2009, "As Cities Go From Two Papers To One, Talk of Zero"), which was echoed by the Christian Monitor's " Newspapers' troubles escalate in recession," March 16, 2009. Hearst announ …

WeMedia.com (wemedia.com):
… good, from the long, sad conversation about newspapers. From South By Southwest, author Stephen Berlin Johnson’s ecosystem metaphor (pick it up at the second chapter) with chart. Or full video. And the map from latest The New York Timesstorythat tells it all. Share: …

boblog -- by bob stepno (boblog.blogspot.com):
… rike in New York City more than 50 years ago. For a good summary, and a follow-up, see " No newspaper is no fun--even five decades later," by my friend Clyde Bentley. Related stories: The New Hybrids: Why the debate about financing journalism misses the point (Slate)As cities go from two newspapers to one, talk of zero(NYTimes) Yesterday's links here …

lindsayliveshere.org (lindsayliveshere.org):
… Buffalo, New York is a one-newspaper town. When I was visiting my parents recently I tried to explain how in Chicago, peopledon’t really read printednewspapers anymore, they get their news online. My dad sounded surprised. It’s not that he doesn’t use the internet or email, but a printed newspaper is part of everyone’s day. When I was growing up, the newspaper arrived by 3pm, so I could always pick it …

giornalisticamente (www.giornalisticamente.net):
… Per la serie “mal comune, mezzo gaudio”: eccoviaNew York Times, i guai neri della stampa americana. …

giornalisticamente (www.giornalisticamente.net):
… Per la serie “mal comune, mezzo gaudio”: eccoviaNew York Times, i guai neri della stampa americana. …

jshm (blogjesussilvaherzogm.typepad.com):
… desaparece un periódico …

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