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Journalism is not in crisis. The media industry — and journalists — might be, but the journalism itself is actually improving. [Read more...]
Networked journalism will move value from “brand” to “contribution”
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Paywalls may be starting to pay off
April 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Digital-only and hybrid digital-print subscriptions drove up total newspaper circulation revenue by 5 percent in 2012, according to a report released this week by the Newspaper Assn. of America. It marked the first circulation gains in a decade, and hinted that the industry’s adoption of website paywalls is starting to pay off. [Read more...]
Journalism’s problem of scale demands a rethinking of the news product
December 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to untangle the mass of conflicting visions about the future of the news industry. But recently I heard a phrase of unusual clarity: “Traditional journalism, as a process, does not scale.”
The person who spoke this line was Matt Berger, the director of digital media at Marketplace. What he meant was there is no business model that will support an organization with 100 reporters writing 100 stories (or, as we used to refer to the newsroom, 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters). [Read more...]
