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At the CUNY summit last week, I was assigned to the group that looked at rethinking our newsrooms to meet the current financial imperatives. Or, as someone wryly named us, “the cost-cutting group.”
But, as Chris O’Brien, one of the thought-leaders in that group, notes in his excellent distillation of the day’s themes and discussions, it [...]
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In a letter posted to Romenesko (no comments allowed, otherwise I’d just post this there), Matt Baldwin of MediaNews Group wonders why there’s so much focus on reporting declining reporting newspaper circulation instead of celebrating the much more robust overall audience, including online, which has been exploding with growth in recent years.
He’s right, to a [...]
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This is one of those non-scientific polls that, nonetheless, is going to jam a shiv in the heart of anyone hoping there’s as much love for the printed paper among “the people” as there is within a lot of newsrooms.
Lifehacker.com asked the question this morning: Will you miss newspapers when they’re gone?
120 replies - and [...]
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Mark Andreessen - Netscape and Ning founder, Facebook board member and investor in live-video site Qik - interviewed on Portfolio.com, looks at the current newspaper revenue and circulation crisis and sees… opportunity:
If you were running the New York Times, what would you do?
Shut off the print edition right now. You’ve got to play offense. You’ve [...]
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As industry observers such as Alan Mutter and Mark Potts try to sort out the meaning of the latest newspaper circulation numbers, and what they mean in context of the past 10-15 years, I thought it would be instructive to look at the numbers from ABC for one market, my local market newspaper, The Baltimore [...]
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I’ve been remiss in posting this. Here’s Jeff Jarvis last week kicking off the New Business Models for News conference. This is part one of two. You’ll find the second part linked at the end of part one.
This conversation could not have come at a more critical time. Circ. is down. Revenue is down. Staffing [...]
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Thanks to the New Business Models for News summit organized by Jeff Jarvis at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, I have a spiral notebook full of ideas flagged for followup, which I plan to address on this blog.
This morning, a quick one, courtesy of data from Eric Stein of Google.
As we wrestle with the [...]
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This is not exactly a surprise, but it’s disappointing nonetheless.
Circulation is down, again, across the board at U.S. newspapers. According to the latest figures released this morning from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, overall daily circulation for the period ending September, 2008 was down 4.6%, and Sunday was down 4.8%
And these numbers were compiled before [...]
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The theme of CUNY’s “New Business Models for News” summit didn’t emerge contextually throughout the day. It was staring everyone in the face from the multiple monitors spread throughout the newsroom taken over by about 125 industry thinkers and leaders yesterday. It was this:
“Do what you do best. Link to the rest”
Linking in this case [...]
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The current topic at the Carnival of Journalism is:
What are small, incremental steps one can make to fuel change in their media organization?
(Yes, we’d all like to swing in our newsroom, lay some boot heels on chests, hoist the black flag and change everything by the end of business on Monday — but the reality is, [...]
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