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Can this newspaper be saved?
Michael Calderone's Blog —
Former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson, who's been thinking about web publishing for years, pens this week's Time cover story on how to save newspapers.
Currently a few newspapers, most notably the Wall Street Journal, charge for their online editions by requiring a monthly subscription. When Rupert Murdoch acquired the Journal, he ruminated publicly about dropping the fee. But Murdoch is, above all, a smart businessman. He took a look at the economics and decided it was lunacy to forgo the revenue — and that was even before the online ad market began ...
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
small dead animals —
Not Waiting For The Asteroid [image] * Posted by Kate at February 5, 2009 2:22 PM
It’s Time
Daily Pundit —
How to Save Your Newspaper - TIME
During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions. 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.
Yes, that is my hope.
The old news media is hopelessly corrupt. Anybody who helps to enable it is only enabling - and paying for - more corruption. You see, the old media simply cannot, or will not, understand that ...
Micropayments! Not!
Opinionator —
... proposing micropayments as a way newspapers can create more online income. The item also quoted a remark by Clay Shirkey in response to the speech (“MicroPay talk appears whenever a biz is dying,” Shirkey said on Twitter) and excerpted a widely-read critical post on micropayments Shirkey wrote in 2003. This morning, Isaacson’s argument appeared as the cover story of the new issue of Time , and more responses to it are popping up around the blogosphere. It’s not an idea that going over well. ...
Requiem for the Printed Word
The Moderate Voice —
... The cover of Time this week shows not the Person of the Year but a vanishing artifact–the American newspaper–and reflects, in a larger sense, the coming end of journalism as we know it. ...
Remainders: Is Tapper toughest?
Michael Calderone's Blog —
Could Tapper be the next Gregory? Or Donaldson? Or neither?
Isaacson talks to Stewart about his Time cover story; Kinsley on micropayments (and Slate umbrellas).
Media Matters catches Fox airing GOP press release as research.
Artist strikes back at the AP over "Hope" image.
Fox embed busted for child porn and suspended; repeat offender.
Gibbs accepts Hannity's invite; asks for a six pack of Bud.
Michelle gets March cover of Vogue.
The Decline and Fall of the Times Roman Empire
All articles at Blogcritics —
... its headquarters to stay afloat. Of course, the journalistic consensus is that the fault lies not in themselves but in their competition. In a recent issue of Time Magazine Walter Isaacson blames the Internet for print journalism s decline: The problem is that fewer of these consumers are paying. Instead, news organizations are merrily giving away their news. According to a Pew Research Center study, a tipping point occurred last year: more people in the U.S. got their news online for free than paid for it by buying newspapers and magazines. His solution? Micropayment ...
Pew Research Center: Internet Political Activity 2008 Part II
Daily Kos —
... for the newspaper business model. But, the data in the report really concentrates on the demographic that uses the internet for political news, at least as of 2008. ...
Fearing the Future: The Corporate Press Makes the Case for Being Saved
Commondreams.org Views —
... ). A Time magazine cover story by former editor Walter Isaacson ( 2/5/09 ) was headlined "How to Save Your Newspaper."Others are less certain that things are that bad. Veteran reporter and industry analyst John Morton, for example, wrote in the American Journalism Review ( ...
