Tag: Newspaper
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AP to cite “pajama-wearing bloggers”
Image by biverson via Flickr I am sitting in my pajamas, working on getting my syllabii together, and being connected. This would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. We live in an age of information. There is so much information, we not only can share it, but we can make money from analyzing it, […]
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Virtual Goods Worth More than Real News: Curmudgeon 08/27/2010
in 2014 Americans will be spending $1.5 billion on online newspaper subscriptions and $5 billion on imaginary objects. Maybe I find this ridiculous because I’m a reporter and my sympathies lie with the newspaper industry. via MediaPost Publications Virtual Goods Worth More than Real News: Curmudgeon 08/27/2010. So this does sound like “amusing ourselves to […]
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Attention Young Journalists: Here’s Opportunity Knocking in Chicago
Image via Wikipedia Well, they don’t mention money, but it doesn’t say these are without remuneration either. I’m heartened to see that the Tribune is now defining reporting today pretty much the same way I would. They are asking for 12-15 clips. If you are short some clips, I encourage you to submit some stories […]
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Mike Doyle notes report on local blogs and media and more.
from ChicagoNow by Mike Doyle Chicago Carless But wait, there’s more. This Saturday (June 13th) also brings the Chicago Media Future Conference to town. Organized by Mike Fourcher, founder of Purely Political Consulting, Barbara Iverson, Columbia College journalism professor and publisher of ChicagoTalks.org, and Scott Smith, Senior Editor at Playboy.com, as a follow-up to February’s […]
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Poynter Online – Romenesko
We will begin to move away from putting all of our newspaper content online for free. Instead, we will explore a variety of premium offerings that apply real value to our print content. We are not trying to invent new premium products, but instead tell our existing print readers that what they are buying has […]
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The Press Deathwatch and Value of Content
What I’m working on is an explication of how we can never afford to pay for the kind of news, hard news, that our democracy needs. However, we can produce this news, distribute it, but we have to think outside the norms of money and the economics of scarcity and the Industrial Age. More to […]
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Link Economy Challenges Mount as Economy Falters
Image via Wikipedia With the Web’s advertising engine stalling just as newspapers are under pressure, some publishers are second-guessing their liberal attitude toward free content. “A lot of news organizations are saying, ‘We’re not willing to accept the tiny fraction of a penny that we get from the page views that these links are sending […]
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Business & Technology | Former P-I journalists launch online news site | Seattle Times Newspaper
Image by Skagit Information Management Systems (Skagit IMS) via Flickr The Post-Intelligencer‘s last print edition was published March 17. The newspaper’s owner, The Hearst Corp., said the paper hadn’t been profitable since 2000 and showed no signs of turning around. The P-I continues as an online-only news outlet, but it employs just 20 of the […]
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If You Don’t Like the News …Dave Winer’s two cents
If you don’t like the news… (Scripting News). I would also say to the assembled educators — you owe it to the next generations, who you serve, to prepare them for the world they will live in as adults, not the world we grew up in. Teach all of them the basics of journalism, no […]
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Sun-Times Media files for bankruptcy | Crain’s Chicago Business
Image via Wikipedia Sun-Times Media Group Inc., which also owns dozens of suburban newspapers, filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Delaware court — the fifth newspaper publisher to seek protection from creditors in recent months. The company listed $479 million in assets and $801 million in debt. The largest unsecured creditors are newsprint vendors; […]
Barbara K Iverson 