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FAQ » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH FAQ » Newspaper Death Watch. Newspaper Death Watch. FAQ. We frequently hear from reporters and students who want to know our opinion about the future of media in general and newspapers in particular. We’ve assembled our answers to some of the most common questions here. Feel free to quote from these comments. If you needadditional
EXPERIMENTS IN NEW JOURNALISM » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The New York Times‘ David Carr writes of an experimental online publication called AssignmentZero.net that uses collaborative, iterative process to build a news story in real time and with contributors from all walks of life. A recent package on “crowdsourcing” is now live, which is appropriate, since crowdsourcing is essentially what AssignmentZero is doing. NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Newspaper Death Watch. R.I.P. Tampa Tribune. By paulgillin | May 4, 2016 - 4:59 pm - Posted in Fake News. The Tampa Tribune is no more. The rival Tampa Bay Times said on Tuesday that it has purchased the 121-year-old Tribune and shut it down, converting subscribers and advertisers to the Times. That makes the Times the fifth-largestSunday
A VISIT TO THE LA TIMES » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Newspapers have been called the “daily miracle.†The accomplishment of delivering a product of such remarkable breadth and complexity to hundreds of thousands of doorsteps by 6:00 a.m. every day is a wonder of manufacturing and logistical efficiency. Visiting the press room of the Los Angeles Times yesterday, I was reminded again of remarkable an achievement that is. TEAR DOWN THAT WALL! » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH We find ourselves, once again, completely in Jeff Jarvis’ camp on the issue of tearing down the advertising/editorial wall. Jarvis makes his case here in response a thoughtful but retro post by the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade. The ad/edit wall that has existed in newspapers for the last three generations is a luxury that media institutions can no longer afford and also an insult to the BAD NEWS ON THE DOORSTEP » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Newspaper Death Watch. Bad News on the Doorstep. By paulgillin | November 3, 2016 - 8:21 pm - Posted in Fake News. After a spate of closures and layoffs in the latter part of the last decade, the newspaper industry appeared to find its footing over the past few years. But now that oasis of stability may be drying up. MURDOCH TAKES ON GOOGLE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The wrangling over Philadelphia’s two bankrupt newspapers continues to grow more bizarre.A Federal district court judge last week ruled that the creditors trying to take control of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News must make a cash offer for the papers rather than simply taking control of them from the bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC. 100-YEAR-OLD LAUREL LEADER-CALL SHUTS DOWN ABRUPTLY The Laurel Leader-Call, a mainstay in the small city of Laurel, MS for more than 100 years, published its final edition today.Residents and the paper’s 18 staffers weren’t given much notice; the announcement was made only on Monday by Publisher Mitchell D. Lynch. PUBLISHER THREATENS TO CLOSE NEWARK STAR-LEDGER The ax is falling again at Advance Publications. The company that cut back frequencies in rapid succession at its once-daily newspapers in New Orleans, Syracuse, Cleveland and, most recently, Portland, is now threatening to shut down the Newark Star-Ledger unless it wins substantial concessions from the paper’s unions. Publisher Rich Vezza said the Star-Ledger, which is New Jersey’s NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCHTUCSON CITIZENROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWSBALTIMORE EXAMINERKENTUCKY POSTSAN JUAN STAR Newspaper Death Watch. The cure for the newspaper industry’s ills was once thought to be a “hyper-local” focus, but that’s not proving to be the salve for New York City, which is suffering an unprecedented decline in local news coverage. The latest casualty is the New York Daily News, which on Monday said it would cut itsnewsroom staff
FAQ » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH FAQ » Newspaper Death Watch. Newspaper Death Watch. FAQ. We frequently hear from reporters and students who want to know our opinion about the future of media in general and newspapers in particular. We’ve assembled our answers to some of the most common questions here. Feel free to quote from these comments. If you needadditional
EXPERIMENTS IN NEW JOURNALISM » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The New York Times‘ David Carr writes of an experimental online publication called AssignmentZero.net that uses collaborative, iterative process to build a news story in real time and with contributors from all walks of life. A recent package on “crowdsourcing” is now live, which is appropriate, since crowdsourcing is essentially what AssignmentZero is doing. NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Newspaper Death Watch. R.I.P. Tampa Tribune. By paulgillin | May 4, 2016 - 4:59 pm - Posted in Fake News. The Tampa Tribune is no more. The rival Tampa Bay Times said on Tuesday that it has purchased the 121-year-old Tribune and shut it down, converting subscribers and advertisers to the Times. That makes the Times the fifth-largestSunday
A VISIT TO THE LA TIMES » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Newspapers have been called the “daily miracle.†The accomplishment of delivering a product of such remarkable breadth and complexity to hundreds of thousands of doorsteps by 6:00 a.m. every day is a wonder of manufacturing and logistical efficiency. Visiting the press room of the Los Angeles Times yesterday, I was reminded again of remarkable an achievement that is. TEAR DOWN THAT WALL! » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH We find ourselves, once again, completely in Jeff Jarvis’ camp on the issue of tearing down the advertising/editorial wall. Jarvis makes his case here in response a thoughtful but retro post by the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade. The ad/edit wall that has existed in newspapers for the last three generations is a luxury that media institutions can no longer afford and also an insult to the BAD NEWS ON THE DOORSTEP » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Newspaper Death Watch. Bad News on the Doorstep. By paulgillin | November 3, 2016 - 8:21 pm - Posted in Fake News. After a spate of closures and layoffs in the latter part of the last decade, the newspaper industry appeared to find its footing over the past few years. But now that oasis of stability may be drying up. MURDOCH TAKES ON GOOGLE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The wrangling over Philadelphia’s two bankrupt newspapers continues to grow more bizarre.A Federal district court judge last week ruled that the creditors trying to take control of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News must make a cash offer for the papers rather than simply taking control of them from the bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC. 100-YEAR-OLD LAUREL LEADER-CALL SHUTS DOWN ABRUPTLY The Laurel Leader-Call, a mainstay in the small city of Laurel, MS for more than 100 years, published its final edition today.Residents and the paper’s 18 staffers weren’t given much notice; the announcement was made only on Monday by Publisher Mitchell D. Lynch. PUBLISHER THREATENS TO CLOSE NEWARK STAR-LEDGER The ax is falling again at Advance Publications. The company that cut back frequencies in rapid succession at its once-daily newspapers in New Orleans, Syracuse, Cleveland and, most recently, Portland, is now threatening to shut down the Newark Star-Ledger unless it wins substantial concessions from the paper’s unions. Publisher Rich Vezza said the Star-Ledger, which is New Jersey’s SEARCH-DRIVEN NEWS » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH They range from Demand Media, which generates assignment lists based entirely on search terms, to Global Post, which hopes to charge readers for direct access to its foreign correspondents.A few themes are apparent through many of the business models. One is their reliance upon search as both a guide and a source of revenue. ABOUT » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH My name is Paul Gillin and I love newspapers. I’ve spent 25 years in technology journalism, the first 17 of them in print. Since 1999, I’ve worked principally online. That experience has taught me about the tectonic shifts that are taking place in the media world, changes that will ultimately destroy 95% of American major metropolitannewspapers.
DISCUSSING – AND DISCARDING – SOLUTIONS » NEWSPAPER DEATH The Associated Press wraps up the debate over public and non-profit funding for newspapers, concluding that the economics could work for a few large players but not for most metro dailies. The New York Times would need an endowment of about $5 billion to sustain its current newsgathering operation, for example. The more promising and popular approach is a targeted for-profit model like -30- » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH This is the final front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which published its last issue this morning after 145 years of daily operation.. Here’s a slide show of the final day.About 150 of the paper’s 170 employees will lose their jobs. The P-I says it will be the first daily to shutter its print operations and go fully online, although technically the Capital Times did this last year. 100-YEAR-OLD LAUREL LEADER-CALL SHUTS DOWN ABRUPTLY The Laurel Leader-Call, a mainstay in the small city of Laurel, MS for more than 100 years, published its final edition today.Residents and the paper’s 18 staffers weren’t given much notice; the announcement was made only on Monday by Publisher Mitchell D. Lynch. MONDAY MISCELLANY » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The Providence Journal is taking hyper local to heart.The paper has moved all its local coverage to the front and banished national and international news to a separate section. The move may be either brilliant or brain-dead, but at least the ProJo is doing something, writes David Scharfenberg in the Boston Phoenix.The ProJo has long been considered one of the best small-city newspapers, with PLAYING DEFENSE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Paul, I think that the problem with the newspaper business was/is that, even during the decline, there was a great deal of money to be made. It’s only as things really began to be dire in the past few years that publishers had to start getting creative about theirrevenue streams.
SLEEPING WATCHDOGS » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The business media is in self-flagellation mode and with good reason. Editors are beginning to pick up the pieces and wonder how they managed to miss the biggest economic story of the last 50 years. PUBLISHER THREATENS TO CLOSE NEWARK STAR-LEDGER The ax is falling again at Advance Publications. The company that cut back frequencies in rapid succession at its once-daily newspapers in New Orleans, Syracuse, Cleveland and, most recently, Portland, is now threatening to shut down the Newark Star-Ledger unless it wins substantial concessions from the paper’s unions. Publisher Rich Vezza said the Star-Ledger, which is New Jersey’s GOOGLE PLEDGES $300 MILLION TO SUPPORT QUALITY JOURNALISM With the media world buzzing about the fake news engine that is Cambridge Analytica, news about a new Google initiative to support quality journalism might easily be overlooked. The multi-faceted investment covers everything from website analytics tuned to the needs of publishers to machine learning tools that identify potentialsubscribers.
NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCHTUCSON CITIZENROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWSBALTIMORE EXAMINERKENTUCKY POSTSAN JUAN STAR Newspaper Death Watch. The cure for the newspaper industry’s ills was once thought to be a “hyper-local” focus, but that’s not proving to be the salve for New York City, which is suffering an unprecedented decline in local news coverage. The latest casualty is the New York Daily News, which on Monday said it would cut itsnewsroom staff
FAQ » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH FAQ » Newspaper Death Watch. Newspaper Death Watch. FAQ. We frequently hear from reporters and students who want to know our opinion about the future of media in general and newspapers in particular. We’ve assembled our answers to some of the most common questions here. Feel free to quote from these comments. If you needadditional
EXPERIMENTS IN NEW JOURNALISM » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The New York Times‘ David Carr writes of an experimental online publication called AssignmentZero.net that uses collaborative, iterative process to build a news story in real time and with contributors from all walks of life. A recent package on “crowdsourcing” is now live, which is appropriate, since crowdsourcing is essentially what AssignmentZero is doing. MONDAY MISCELLANY » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The Providence Journal is taking hyper local to heart.The paper has moved all its local coverage to the front and banished national and international news to a separate section. The move may be either brilliant or brain-dead, but at least the ProJo is doing something, writes David Scharfenberg in the Boston Phoenix.The ProJo has long been considered one of the best small-city newspapers, with PLAYING DEFENSE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Paul, I think that the problem with the newspaper business was/is that, even during the decline, there was a great deal of money to be made. It’s only as things really began to be dire in the past few years that publishers had to start getting creative about theirrevenue streams.
TEAR DOWN THAT WALL! » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH We find ourselves, once again, completely in Jeff Jarvis’ camp on the issue of tearing down the advertising/editorial wall. Jarvis makes his case here in response a thoughtful but retro post by the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade. The ad/edit wall that has existed in newspapers for the last three generations is a luxury that media institutions can no longer afford and also an insult to the MURDOCH TAKES ON GOOGLE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The wrangling over Philadelphia’s two bankrupt newspapers continues to grow more bizarre.A Federal district court judge last week ruled that the creditors trying to take control of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News must make a cash offer for the papers rather than simply taking control of them from the bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC. R.I.P. TAMPA TRIBUNE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The Tampa Tribune is no more.. The rival Tampa Bay Times said on Tuesday that it has purchased the 121-year-old Tribune and shut it down, converting subscribers and advertisers to the Times.That makes the Times the fifth-largest Sunday newspaper in the country by circulation.. A purchase price was not specified, but TampaBay.com reported that Times ownership borrowed $13.3 GOOGLE PLEDGES $300 MILLION TO SUPPORT QUALITY JOURNALISM With the media world buzzing about the fake news engine that is Cambridge Analytica, news about a new Google initiative to support quality journalism might easily be overlooked. The multi-faceted investment covers everything from website analytics tuned to the needs of publishers to machine learning tools that identify potentialsubscribers.
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NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCHTUCSON CITIZENROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWSBALTIMORE EXAMINERKENTUCKY POSTSAN JUAN STAR Newspaper Death Watch. The cure for the newspaper industry’s ills was once thought to be a “hyper-local” focus, but that’s not proving to be the salve for New York City, which is suffering an unprecedented decline in local news coverage. The latest casualty is the New York Daily News, which on Monday said it would cut itsnewsroom staff
FAQ » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH FAQ » Newspaper Death Watch. Newspaper Death Watch. FAQ. We frequently hear from reporters and students who want to know our opinion about the future of media in general and newspapers in particular. We’ve assembled our answers to some of the most common questions here. Feel free to quote from these comments. If you needadditional
EXPERIMENTS IN NEW JOURNALISM » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The New York Times‘ David Carr writes of an experimental online publication called AssignmentZero.net that uses collaborative, iterative process to build a news story in real time and with contributors from all walks of life. A recent package on “crowdsourcing” is now live, which is appropriate, since crowdsourcing is essentially what AssignmentZero is doing. MONDAY MISCELLANY » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The Providence Journal is taking hyper local to heart.The paper has moved all its local coverage to the front and banished national and international news to a separate section. The move may be either brilliant or brain-dead, but at least the ProJo is doing something, writes David Scharfenberg in the Boston Phoenix.The ProJo has long been considered one of the best small-city newspapers, with PLAYING DEFENSE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Paul, I think that the problem with the newspaper business was/is that, even during the decline, there was a great deal of money to be made. It’s only as things really began to be dire in the past few years that publishers had to start getting creative about theirrevenue streams.
TEAR DOWN THAT WALL! » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH We find ourselves, once again, completely in Jeff Jarvis’ camp on the issue of tearing down the advertising/editorial wall. Jarvis makes his case here in response a thoughtful but retro post by the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade. The ad/edit wall that has existed in newspapers for the last three generations is a luxury that media institutions can no longer afford and also an insult to the MURDOCH TAKES ON GOOGLE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The wrangling over Philadelphia’s two bankrupt newspapers continues to grow more bizarre.A Federal district court judge last week ruled that the creditors trying to take control of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News must make a cash offer for the papers rather than simply taking control of them from the bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC. R.I.P. TAMPA TRIBUNE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The Tampa Tribune is no more.. The rival Tampa Bay Times said on Tuesday that it has purchased the 121-year-old Tribune and shut it down, converting subscribers and advertisers to the Times.That makes the Times the fifth-largest Sunday newspaper in the country by circulation.. A purchase price was not specified, but TampaBay.com reported that Times ownership borrowed $13.3 GOOGLE PLEDGES $300 MILLION TO SUPPORT QUALITY JOURNALISM With the media world buzzing about the fake news engine that is Cambridge Analytica, news about a new Google initiative to support quality journalism might easily be overlooked. The multi-faceted investment covers everything from website analytics tuned to the needs of publishers to machine learning tools that identify potentialsubscribers.
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SEARCH-DRIVEN NEWS » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH They range from Demand Media, which generates assignment lists based entirely on search terms, to Global Post, which hopes to charge readers for direct access to its foreign correspondents.A few themes are apparent through many of the business models. One is their reliance upon search as both a guide and a source of revenue. -30- » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH This is the final front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which published its last issue this morning after 145 years of daily operation.. Here’s a slide show of the final day.About 150 of the paper’s 170 employees will lose their jobs. The P-I says it will be the first daily to shutter its print operations and go fully online, although technically the Capital Times did this last year. A VISIT TO THE LA TIMES » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Newspapers have been called the “daily miracle.†The accomplishment of delivering a product of such remarkable breadth and complexity to hundreds of thousands of doorsteps by 6:00 a.m. every day is a wonder of manufacturing and logistical efficiency. Visiting the press room of the Los Angeles Times yesterday, I was reminded again of remarkable an achievement that is. MONEY FOR NOTHING » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Newspaper Death Watch. Gannett CEO Craig Dubow (right) resigned last week for health reasons, saying that back and hip problems prevent him for fulfilling his duties. He leaves a job that could pay him as much as $9.4 million this year, but don’t feel too bad for Dubow: He’s eligible for severance pay of up to $37 million. 2010 MAY » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH While Google is busy figuring out how to save journalism, some entrepreneurs are going ahead and doing it on their own using unconventional techniques that may make some traditionalists shudder.Writing in The New York Times magazine, Andrew Rice surveys the landscape of recent media startups that are confronting the reality of plummeting margins by crowdsourced news operations. 2010 JANUARY » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Publishers who cheered The New York Times decision last week to build up a wall in front of its content should be considerably less cheery about the news emanating from Newsday.The Long Island daily has admitted that it has signed up just 35 paying subscribers since it put most of its content behind a pay wall in October. At $260 per subscriber per year, that amounts to just $9,000 in PHILIPP M. NATTERMANN 2 News consumption in the United Kingdom rose by 20 percent in the past three years, according to new McKinsey research.1 Average consumption has risen to 72 minutes a day, compared with 60 minutes in 2006—an increase driven almost entirely by people under the age of35 (Exhibit 1).
2009 APRIL » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Robert Picard tweaks bankrupt newspaper companies for paying large executive bonuses, calling the argument that said such payments are necessary to retain good people “hollow.”Few people are leaving good jobs in a time when nobody’s hiring, Picard writes. Bankruptcy is a time to restructure, not just get out from under yourobligations.
T.G.I.F. 7/3/09 » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Time magazine writes about the first crop of graduates from a new master’s program at the Medill School of Journalism that aims to blend programming and journalism skills.Medill is the most prominent of several academic institutions that are dabbling with crossover programs that seek to make the news more accessible and multi-dimensional through technology. GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES AID BUYERS & DEALERS / 7 LATEST … VOL. 101, NO. 84 COPYRIGHT © 2009 THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY — All rights reserved TODAY IN Why are Germans buying somany cars?
NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCHTUCSON CITIZENROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWSBALTIMORE EXAMINERKENTUCKY POSTSAN JUAN STAR Newspaper Death Watch. The cure for the newspaper industry’s ills was once thought to be a “hyper-local” focus, but that’s not proving to be the salve for New York City, which is suffering an unprecedented decline in local news coverage. The latest casualty is the New York Daily News, which on Monday said it would cut itsnewsroom staff
FAQ » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH FAQ » Newspaper Death Watch. Newspaper Death Watch. FAQ. We frequently hear from reporters and students who want to know our opinion about the future of media in general and newspapers in particular. We’ve assembled our answers to some of the most common questions here. Feel free to quote from these comments. If you needadditional
EXPERIMENTS IN NEW JOURNALISM » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The New York Times‘ David Carr writes of an experimental online publication called AssignmentZero.net that uses collaborative, iterative process to build a news story in real time and with contributors from all walks of life. A recent package on “crowdsourcing” is now live, which is appropriate, since crowdsourcing is essentially what AssignmentZero is doing. MONDAY MISCELLANY » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The Providence Journal is taking hyper local to heart.The paper has moved all its local coverage to the front and banished national and international news to a separate section. The move may be either brilliant or brain-dead, but at least the ProJo is doing something, writes David Scharfenberg in the Boston Phoenix.The ProJo has long been considered one of the best small-city newspapers, with PLAYING DEFENSE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Paul, I think that the problem with the newspaper business was/is that, even during the decline, there was a great deal of money to be made. It’s only as things really began to be dire in the past few years that publishers had to start getting creative about theirrevenue streams.
MURDOCH TAKES ON GOOGLE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The wrangling over Philadelphia’s two bankrupt newspapers continues to grow more bizarre.A Federal district court judge last week ruled that the creditors trying to take control of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News must make a cash offer for the papers rather than simply taking control of them from the bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC. R.I.P. TAMPA TRIBUNE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The Tampa Tribune is no more.. The rival Tampa Bay Times said on Tuesday that it has purchased the 121-year-old Tribune and shut it down, converting subscribers and advertisers to the Times.That makes the Times the fifth-largest Sunday newspaper in the country by circulation.. A purchase price was not specified, but TampaBay.com reported that Times ownership borrowed $13.3 R.I.P. PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH We’re going to call a time-of-death on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, despite the fact that the newspaper says it’ll live on with a website.Everyone says that these days. The more important news is that the 24-year-old daily will shutter its print edition and lay off 106 staff members.It will maintain an online-only edition, but most dying newspapers say that. GOOGLE PLEDGES $300 MILLION TO SUPPORT QUALITY JOURNALISM With the media world buzzing about the fake news engine that is Cambridge Analytica, news about a new Google initiative to support quality journalism might easily be overlooked. The multi-faceted investment covers everything from website analytics tuned to the needs of publishers to machine learning tools that identify potentialsubscribers.
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NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCHTUCSON CITIZENROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWSBALTIMORE EXAMINERKENTUCKY POSTSAN JUAN STAR Newspaper Death Watch. The cure for the newspaper industry’s ills was once thought to be a “hyper-local” focus, but that’s not proving to be the salve for New York City, which is suffering an unprecedented decline in local news coverage. The latest casualty is the New York Daily News, which on Monday said it would cut itsnewsroom staff
FAQ » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH FAQ » Newspaper Death Watch. Newspaper Death Watch. FAQ. We frequently hear from reporters and students who want to know our opinion about the future of media in general and newspapers in particular. We’ve assembled our answers to some of the most common questions here. Feel free to quote from these comments. If you needadditional
EXPERIMENTS IN NEW JOURNALISM » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The New York Times‘ David Carr writes of an experimental online publication called AssignmentZero.net that uses collaborative, iterative process to build a news story in real time and with contributors from all walks of life. A recent package on “crowdsourcing” is now live, which is appropriate, since crowdsourcing is essentially what AssignmentZero is doing. MONDAY MISCELLANY » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The Providence Journal is taking hyper local to heart.The paper has moved all its local coverage to the front and banished national and international news to a separate section. The move may be either brilliant or brain-dead, but at least the ProJo is doing something, writes David Scharfenberg in the Boston Phoenix.The ProJo has long been considered one of the best small-city newspapers, with PLAYING DEFENSE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Paul, I think that the problem with the newspaper business was/is that, even during the decline, there was a great deal of money to be made. It’s only as things really began to be dire in the past few years that publishers had to start getting creative about theirrevenue streams.
MURDOCH TAKES ON GOOGLE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The wrangling over Philadelphia’s two bankrupt newspapers continues to grow more bizarre.A Federal district court judge last week ruled that the creditors trying to take control of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News must make a cash offer for the papers rather than simply taking control of them from the bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC. R.I.P. TAMPA TRIBUNE » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH The Tampa Tribune is no more.. The rival Tampa Bay Times said on Tuesday that it has purchased the 121-year-old Tribune and shut it down, converting subscribers and advertisers to the Times.That makes the Times the fifth-largest Sunday newspaper in the country by circulation.. A purchase price was not specified, but TampaBay.com reported that Times ownership borrowed $13.3 R.I.P. PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH We’re going to call a time-of-death on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, despite the fact that the newspaper says it’ll live on with a website.Everyone says that these days. The more important news is that the 24-year-old daily will shutter its print edition and lay off 106 staff members.It will maintain an online-only edition, but most dying newspapers say that. GOOGLE PLEDGES $300 MILLION TO SUPPORT QUALITY JOURNALISM With the media world buzzing about the fake news engine that is Cambridge Analytica, news about a new Google initiative to support quality journalism might easily be overlooked. The multi-faceted investment covers everything from website analytics tuned to the needs of publishers to machine learning tools that identify potentialsubscribers.
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SEARCH-DRIVEN NEWS » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH They range from Demand Media, which generates assignment lists based entirely on search terms, to Global Post, which hopes to charge readers for direct access to its foreign correspondents.A few themes are apparent through many of the business models. One is their reliance upon search as both a guide and a source of revenue. SPEAKER INFORMATION » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Paul is an accomplished speaker with 15 years of experience addressing audiences of all sizes. He is known for his ability to demystify complex concepts and 100-YEAR-OLD LAUREL LEADER-CALL SHUTS DOWN ABRUPTLY The Laurel Leader-Call, a mainstay in the small city of Laurel, MS for more than 100 years, published its final edition today.Residents and the paper’s 18 staffers weren’t given much notice; the announcement was made only on Monday by Publisher Mitchell D. Lynch. A GOOD LIST OF COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Journalism Degree.org just posted a list of 100 Exemplary College Newspapers for Journalism Students.The ranking isn’t in any particular order and there’s no explanation of what methodology (if any) was used to assemble the list, but we clicked around to some of the candidates are were impressed to see that good journalism is being nurtured on college campuses around the country. MONEY FOR NOTHING » NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH Newspaper Death Watch. Gannett CEO Craig Dubow (right) resigned last week for health reasons, saying that back and hip problems prevent him for fulfilling his duties. He leaves a job that could pay him as much as $9.4 million this year, but don’t feel too bad for Dubow: He’s eligible for severance pay of up to $37 million. NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY DECLINE Newspaper Death Watch. ClickInks, which sells ink, has created an infographic that documents the rise and fall of the newspaper industry. Its SEO specialist writes, “We wanted to provide a fun and useful resource that summarizes the large decline in the circulation of newspapers over time.”. We’re not sure if “fun” is the wordwe’d
GOOGLE PLEDGES $300 MILLION TO SUPPORT QUALITY JOURNALISM With the media world buzzing about the fake news engine that is Cambridge Analytica, news about a new Google initiative to support quality journalism might easily be overlooked. The multi-faceted investment covers everything from website analytics tuned to the needs of publishers to machine learning tools that identify potentialsubscribers.
PHILIPP M. NATTERMANN 2 News consumption in the United Kingdom rose by 20 percent in the past three years, according to new McKinsey research.1 Average consumption has risen to 72 minutes a day, compared with 60 minutes in 2006—an increase driven almost entirely by people under the age of35 (Exhibit 1).
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Tronc Eviscerates New York Daily News With 50% Staff Cut By paulgillin | July 24, 2018 - 7:54 pm - Posted in Hyper-local, Layoffs
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The _Washington Post_ points out that this means that a paper that employed 400 journalists in 1988 will have a reportorial staff of just 45 when the latest cuts new owner Tronc take effect. U.S. newspaper employment has fallen by 55% since 2000, from 424,000 people to 183,300 in mid-2016, according to the Bureau of LaborStatistics
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Ironically, the cuts are hitting hardest in New York, which is one of the media capitals of the world. Politico notes that _The Wall Street Journal_ shut down its own experiment in hyper-local journalism called “Greater New York” in 2016 while _The New York Times_ has cut back on metro coverage and the _Village Voice_ shut down its print edition last year. _Newsday_ pulled out of Manhattan long ago and no one knows about the condition of _The New York Post_, whose finances are closely held secret of owner RupertMurdoch.
BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith, who is a veteran New York reporter, summed it up best, telling the _Post_, “Politicians know nobody is watching in a state where everything from economic development to the electoral system is plagued by systematic corruption.” The _Daily News_ has won 11 Pulitzer Prizes, includingone last year for
its work with ProPublica on the abuse of eviction rules in New YorkCity.
Arthur Browne, who served as editor-in-chief of the _Daily News_ last year, told the Daily Beast last year that the borough of Queens, which has 2.3 million residents, now has no full-time court reporter, despite the fact that it experiences 35,000 major crimes a year and that the local courthouse hears 200,000 criminal cases annually. Robert York, the _Daily News_‘s new EIC, asked the staff for 30 days to define a new strategy, which was apparently not in place before the firings were announced. York has a 20-year-plus journalism career, including some recent successes with the Allentown, Pa. _Morning Call_, but his background has been mostly limited to features and photography, and he has no experience in the rough-and-tumble New York market. Among the casualties was former _Daily News_ EIC Jim Rich, who had reportedly resisted demands for further staff cuts. Rich didn’t respond to media inquiries, but issued this tweet, which sort of sums up the situation in NYC right now. Cuts are expected at other Tronc papers, which include _The Baltimore Sun_ and _The Chicago Tribune_, but Tronc CEO Justin Dearborn said they wouldn’t be as draconian as they were at the _Daily News. _IMAGE: PIXABAY
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Crowdsourcing History With Global Newspaper Archive Search By paulgillin | May 24, 2018 - 10:20 am - Posted in Uncategorized The United States Holocaust Museum is conducting an interesting exercise in crowdsourced research using newspaper archives from the 1930s and 40s. Called “History Unfolded ,”, the project asks students, teachers and anyone else who’s interested to look in local newspapers for accounts of 34 different Holocaust-era events that took place in the U. S. and Europe, and to submit those articles to thenational database.
As of May 24, nearly 3,000 people had scanned and uploaded more than 17,600 articles. The contributions not only form an archive of the “first draft of history,” but also deliver a historical snapshot of how the Nazi threat was perceived in its earliest days. It’s fascinating reading and a treasure trove for history buffs.10 Comments
Google Pledges $300 Million to Support Quality Journalism By paulgillin | March 21, 2018 - 1:29 pm - Posted in Fake News, Paywalls
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the media world buzzing about the fake news engine that is Cambridge Analytica, news about a new Google initiative to support quality journalism might easily be overlooked. The multi-faceted investment covers everything from website analytics tuned to the needs of publishers to machine learning tools that identify potential subscribers. Of particular note is Subscribe with Google,
a service that enables readers to easily subscribe to a news source using their Google accounts, with payments handled automatically through Google’s established payment mechanisms. The search giant handles all of the back-end accounting securely and lets publishers handle all subscriptions in one place. The company is also applying machine learning to identify revenue opportunities for publisher with its Insights Engine Project,
which delivers better ad targeting and peer comparisons for adperformance.
A particular interesting new dimension of Insights Engine is a feature that identifies readers who are likely to become subscribers and helps publishers to optimize offers when they are most likely to pay. With big papers like _The New York Times_ and _The Washington Post_ collectively boasting more than 4 million paying subscribers, this is an opportunity for small publishers to cash in on the paywall trend. The problem Google hasn’t conquered yet is how to identify and elevate trustworthy information ahead of fake news. If it can figure that out, it can perform a much greater service than just identifying revenue opportunities for publishers; it can restore civility to our national conversations. Comments Off on Google Pledges $300 Million to Support QualityJournalism
Why Facebook Was So Easily Gamed By paulgillin | February 20, 2018 - 12:13 pm - Posted in Facebook“Research
has shown that the downside of powerful, centralized networks is their susceptibility to being subverted and exploited,” writes _The Wall Street Journal_’s Christopher Mims in a fascinating analysis of why social networks, which were supposed to challenge hierarchy, have reinforced it instead. Delving into network theory, Mims explains why networks that start out with flat, distributed power structures ultimately, become vertical hierarchies. That was true in the Bolshevik revolutions of 1917, when a circle of insiders around Joseph Stalin created a hierarchy within the supposedly distributed network of citizens who overthrew the Czar. It is also true in the 16th century, when the printing press and Martin Luther’s vernacular versions of the Bible, rather than democratizing access to information, led to nearly 200 years of civil war. The impact of the internet has often been compared to that of Gutenberg’s invention. “Even when networks aren’t architected for this kind of control, they tend to organize themselves in ways that lead to disproportionate influence by a handful of their members,” Mims writes. “When any new person or entity joins a network, it is likely to attach to the most visible hubs, making them even more influential.” Facebook magnified this effect by designing its algorithms to optimize for engagement rather than for truth. Russia understood this, and brilliantly exploited it to foster confusion and misinformation in the2016 election.
------------------------- Pro Publica is using fire to fight fire. Co. Design reports on the work that a team at the nonprofit news organization has been doing to employ the tools of big data to see if companies like Amazon and Facebook are living up to theirown policies.
The team crowdsourced the process of identifying examples of people who felt their free-speech rights had been violated by Facebook, or that they had been denied information because of some arbitrary decision. Facebook publishes its censorship rules, but verifying compliance is nearly impossible. That’s what the big data team at Pro Publica figured out a way to do. It used a Facebook Messenger survey to gather input from the crowd and then combed through the most puzzling cases by hand. In the end, Facebook had to admit not following its own policies in 22 examples brought forth by members. The Pro Public team’s next step will be to investigate how political ads work by using a browser plug-in that scrapes Facebook ads and analyzes them using machine learning. The team has already published some of its initial findings,
including the fact that many political ads don’t carry the required disclaimers or candidate endorsements. IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Comments Off on Why Facebook Was So Easily Gamed #FakeNews: Facebook Isn't a Media Company By paulgillin | October 19, 2017 - 12:21 pm - Posted in Facebook, Fake News
Image credit: Wikipedia Despite a Pew Research study‘s
finding last year that two-thirds of Facebook users rely on the site for news, the COO of the world’s largest social network insists that Facebook isn’t a media company.
“At our heart we’re a tech company… we don’t hire journalists,” Sheryl Sandberg told Axios. Although Sandberg admitted that her company made mistakes in allowing Russian organizations to buy ads to try to influence the 2016 U.S. election, her refusal to admit the much larger and more damaging role Facebook played by enabling the dissemination of fake news displays the kind of arrogance you only find in Silicon Valley. Since when does the people you hire define what you are? According to Wikipedia’s definitionof media as
“the collective communication outlets or tools that are used to store and deliver information or data,” Facebook is as much a media company as NBC or _The New York Times_. The key word is “deliver.” Facebook is not only the world’s most powerful news delivery medium, but its algorithms are fine-tuned to give its members the information that interests them most. Isn’t that also what newspaper editors do? Come to think of it, no. Newspaper editors attempt to present their readers with the information they think those readers need to know, regardless of whether they want to know it. Facebook feeds its members only stuff in which they’ve demonstrated an interest. The more defined your place on the political spectrum, the more Facebook will shovel material at you that conforms to your view of the world. News organizations seek to create an educated populace. Facebook createsecho chambers.
One solution might be to change those algorithms to give Facebook members a more balanced view of the world. But that isn’t in Facebook’s best interests. As long as it continues to deny its role in shaping public opinion, it can justify changing nothing. Because, you know, it’s a tech company. This isn’t about algorithms; it’s about common sense. The social network now says it’s working on elegant technical solutions to flagging fake news, but a simpler solution last year would have been a banner at the top of every page saying, “Do not believe something just because you read it on Facebook.” Be skeptical, check facts and don’t share lies. And if you do, there will be consequences. Curation existed long before the internet, but it was the Web that made it a legitimate form of media. Is Drudge Report not media because it lacks original content? The stories it chooses to curate, and the places it assigns them on the page, are a form of editorial because they help shape public opinion. The fact that Facebook uses code instead of human editors to make those decisions doesn’t change the outcome. Comments Off on #FakeNews: Facebook Isn't a Media Company Bad News on the Doorstep By paulgillin | November 3, 2016 - 8:21 pm - Posted in Fake News After a spate of closures and layoffs in the latter part of the last decade, the newspaper industry appeared to find its footing over the past few years. But now that oasis of stability may be drying up. Hard times are hitting some of the most resilient titles, and the trend indicates that things are only get worse. The decline in print advertising revenue at _The New York Times_ has accelerated from 9 percent in the first quarter of 2016 to nearly 19 percent in the most recent quarter, writes Mathew Ingram in a Fortune story ominously headlined “The New York Times Scrambles to Avoid Print AdvertisingCliff .” In
announcing its financial results, the paper said it expects the falloff to continue “at a rate similar to that seen in the third quarter,” or at least 19% per quarter. The only good news in that statement is that sequential 20% declines take a smaller total dollar bite out of revenues with each iteration because the base number is smaller. But that’s the only good news. If the last three quarters are any indication, the _Times_ advertising business is in free-fall. The paper has done a better job than anyone of growing its base of circulation revenue and increasing its digital advertising business, but both pale in comparison to the size – and profitability – of the print advertising business. Almost in tandem with the _Times_’ disappointing financial results, _The Wall Street Journal_ announced that it will consolidate sectionsand lay off staff
as it seeks to stabilize its print business while it scrambles to grow its digital operations. Last week, the _Journal_ laid off the staff of its “Greater New York” section and offered buyouts to 450 employees. Only 48 took the package, indicating that things could getugly soon.
A new “Business & Finance” section will combine the _Journal_’s current “Business & Tech” and “Money & Investing” sections, Reuters reports. New York coverage will be reduced and moved into the main section of the newspaper. The Journal has proved more resilient to the downturn than most print newspapers because of its pricey subscriptions and well-heeled readership. When the most optimistic statement management can make is that the paper is seeking to create a “print edition that can stand on a sound financial footing for the foreseeable future,” that doesn’t sound good. Speaking of Reuters, the company completed this week’s morbid hat trick by announcing that it will lay off about 2,000 workers at a cost of $250 million as part of a “transformation” of its business. The silver lining – journalistically speaking – is that Reuters said none of the cuts will be in the newsroom. Instead, they will be focused in financial and technology operations that primarily serve financial services companies. Things have been tough in that business amid low interest rates and pressure from new-economy competitors. Reuters has the advantage of being a diversified company with a strong position in financial markets, but revenues are flat and there’s no indication of where additional business will come from. Comments Off on Bad News on the Doorstep R.I.P. Pittsburgh _Tribune-Review_ By paulgillin | September 28, 2016 - 8:59 pm - Posted in Fake NewsWe’re
going to call a time-of-death on the Pittsburgh _Tribune-Review_, despite the fact that the newspaper says it’ll live on with a website. Everyone says that these days. The more important news is that the 24-year-old daily will shutter its print edition and lay off106 staff members
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It will maintain an online-only edition, but most dying newspapers saythat.
Our favorite quote comes from Jennifer Bertetto, president and chief executive of Trib Total Media, which owns the _Tribune-Review_: “Our commitment to covering news in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County will not change.” Right. We’ll just do it with 106 fewer people. In keeping with the pattern that has characterized other newspaper failures, the company’s official announcement doesn’t mention the closure or layoffs until the seventh paragraph. It’s actually a lot fewer than that, when you consider the multiple cuts that parent company Trib Total Media has inflicted on its workforce over the past couple of years. Isolating the goings-on at the Pittsburgh paper is difficult, since Trib Total Media built its media empire in nearby Greensburg and only expanded into Pittsburgh in 1992 when the competing Pittsburgh _Post-Gazette_ was in the midst of a strike. Billionaire Publisher Richard Mellon Scaife (note that Mellon is a rather big name in the region) launched the expansion after he failed in an attempt to buy the _Post-Gazette. _The Pittsburgh _Business Times_ has a good timeline here.
As the number-two paper in a two-paper town, the _Tribune-Review_‘s back was always against the wall. Its weekday circulation of 89,000 and Sunday circulation of 168,000 were more than 40% lower than the _Post-Gazette_‘s, and Pittsburgh isn’t a very big market to begin with. Once Scaife died in July, 2014, the company he left behind focused its attention more on selling off assets than supporting journalism. An ongoing suit by Scaife’s heirs alleges that he threw good money after bad in attempting to keep the _Tribune-Review_ alive. Trib Total Media sold eight newspapers last October and laid off 153 employees in November. It shuttered the McKeesport _Daily News_ – the Monongahela Valley’s longest-running daily – in December. Nearly 80% of the staff got a buyout offer in July. This is clearly a media business that’s looking to get out of the media business. The loss of the _Tribune-Review_ reduces by one the dwindling number of two-newspaper towns in the U.S. The fact that Pittsburgh, with a population of just 300,000 souls, held out so long is notable. Pittsburgh is a proud and beautiful city, if you ever get the chance to visit. Just don’t expect to find a choice of newspapers when youget there.
Comments Off on R.I.P. Pittsburgh _Tribune-Review_ Startup Says It's Figured Out a Way to Make Micropayments Work By paulgillin | August 12, 2016 - 9:34 am - Posted in UncategorizedThe
idea of convincing readers to pay a few pennies to read a single article has been largely scoffed at over the years, but Blendle may have cracked the code, atleast a little bit.
Launched two years ago in Europe, Blendle says it just surpassed the one-million-member mark.
It’s getting hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors and 20% are converting into paying customers. Users will have read more than 20 million articles on Blendle by the end of the year, Managing Editor Michaël Jarjour told TechCrunch. It’s backed by The New York Times Co. and German publisher Axel Springer, and features content from an assortment of big-name publishers. Users pay a few pennies to read an article and have the option of requesting a refund if they don’t like what they see. Refund requests must include a reason, a hitch Blendle adds to prevent abuse. Jarjour said the company employees 15 journalists who comb the Web looking for worthwhile stories that are hidden behind paywalls. Blendle has elements of Flipboard, Nuzzel and other social news services in the form of human-curated feeds. If users provide access to their social network accounts, Blendle will add durations from friends into the news feed. A new service called Blendle Premium Feed is powered by a combination of algorithmic predictions and recommendations from friends. So what will people pay to read? Not news, apparently. “We’ve seen that our users don’t like to spend money on the news,” wrote co-founder Alexander Klöpping in a Medium post announcing the company’s entry into the U.S. market. “What our users do like to read is investigative reporting, revelatory background articles, newsworthy analysis and hard-hittinginterviews.”
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The Best 20 Minutes of Video You'll Watch This Week By paulgillin | August 10, 2016 - 12:30 pm - Posted in Uncategorized John Oliver’s sendup of the news industry for preposterous ideaslike Tronc
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both hilarious and sad. Oliver digs into the video history bag to remind us that Sam Zell really did own a newspaper companyat one point and
thought that stories about cats could possibly support stories about crime and corruption. He also calls out Sheldon Adelson for instructing journalists at the Las Vegas _Review Journal_ not to post negative stories about him or any of his properties. And the mashup of “Spotlight” with the investigative crew assigned to dig up everything it can about racoon kittens is flat-out genius. The quotes from Washington _Post_ Editor Marty Barron about the workload news reporters have to process these days is poignant. They aren’t laughing at the Newspaper Association of America, though, which called Oliver’s piece “petty insults”
and noted that the humorist offered no solutions. Fair enough, but is it the job of a comedian to offer solutions? Pointing out absurdities like the click-bait headline atop this post is the first step toward solving problems, and thank goodness we have people like Oliver and Jon Stewart to point out what a circus media has become. It’s sad that comedians have to play the role of fact-checkers in this industry, but at least someone is willing to call out the emperor forhaving no clothes.
Comments Off on The Best 20 Minutes of Video You'll Watch This Week Pittsburgh _Post-Gazette_ hikes prices even as circulation plummets By paulgillin | July 13, 2016 - 9:31 am - Posted in Fake News The Pittsburgh _Post-Gazette_ is raising newsstand prices 50 cents to $2 per weekday issue, despite the fact that weekday print circulation has dropped 54% over the last decade.rThe move continues a drive by newspapers to raise reader revenues in the face of quickening declines in advertising sales. Ad revenues at U.S. newspapers fell 8% last year, the largest decline since 2009. The price increase is also an effort to wring more dollars out of the shrinking base of older readers who can’t get through the day without a print newspaper. Those readers have money, but advertisers don’t want to reach them. The story in the rival _Tribune-Review_ quotes Poynter Institute analyst Rick Edmonds saying that raising prices puts pressure on newspapers to improve quality, but there is little evidence that quality and price are correlated. The _Post-Gazette_ is more likely looking to whittle down its print reader base to the hard-core few who will pay a price at which print is profitable. Comments Off on Pittsburgh _Post-Gazette_ hikes prices even as circulation plummetsPrevious Entries
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