The changing truths of journalism "Newspapers die hard — and the obituaries over the next few years are likely to make us think of massive casualties in a war. Strip out the classified business, and you’ll find that magazines face many of the same problems as newspapers: ever rising paper (and for us even worse [...]
News You Can Lose "When the Tribune Company announced that it was filing for bankruptcy, last Monday, Sam Zell, the man who bought the company a year ago, for $8.2 billion, said that its problems were the result of a “perfect storm.” You take readers and advertisers who were already migrating away from print, and [...]
Are journalism students completely screwed? "Given the never ending stream of bad news coming from print media companies, what is the realistic job outlook for a college student who will be graduating with an undergrad print journalism degree in the next 1-2 years? In other words, am I completely screwed?" (tags: journalism students)
Match of the Day-style interviews drum up cash "The Evening Gazette in Teesside has come up with a novel way of generating revenue through the video content on its website. The Trinity Mirror paper's Middlesbrough FC experts – chief writer Eric Paylor and sports editor Phil Tallentire – are already attracting more than 50,000 hits [...]
CNN news Ticker is replaced by the Flipper "Rather than deliver it in a crawl, which we found increasingly difficult to follow and read, we do it with one story at a time … so it's a little easier," Feder said of the Flipper's Twitter-esque missives. (tags: journalism twitter cnn breaking+news tv+news) Citizen journalism will [...]
