Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Journal: Radio station may build public media center. Preliminary plans call for the center to have and develop forums, Web sites, conferences and other training sessions for public-radio and television journalists, students of Wake Forest University and members of the community. The preliminary plan also calls for it to teach ethics, mechanics […]
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Free Fall at Newspapers
AP: Daily Circulation Falls at U.S. Papers. Circulation declines accelerated at major U.S. newspapers for the six-month period ending in September, according to figures released Monday, in the latest sign of struggle for an industry that is continually grappling with changing reader habits. This news is not just bad. It’s the grimmest yet. We’re seeing […]
Doc's Prescriptions for Newspapers
Doc Searls offers great ideas to newspapers. Most won’t listen.
Tribune Company's Accelerating Descent
The company fired Los Angeles Times publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson, “a little more than a month after he defied the media conglomerate’s demands for staff cuts that he suggested could damage the newspaper.” No need to say much more than that…
Transparency Not a Newspaper Ethic, Sometimes
In this Contra Costa Times story, “Judge seals files in MediaNews trial,” you’ll find a priceless and all-too-true line: “Newspapers believe the public should know about everything, unless it is information about newspapers,” Shulman said. The traditional media business is beginning to show signs of transparency, but only beginning. This case is a great example […]
The Online Revolution and Traditional Media
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has posted a roundtable discussion, Charting the Online Revolution. I’m a participant.
Google's Deep Past News Archive
Google’s latest foray into gathering information sounds promising. Its News Archive Search is described as an: easy way to search and explore historical archives. Users can search for events, people, ideas and see how they have been described over time. In addition to searching for the most relevant articles for their query, users can get […]
Journalism by the Numbers
The Project for Excellence in Journalism is making is voluminous data available to anyone who wants to use it in new ways: Perhaps the biggest change is the new Numbers section, which contains virtually all the data PEJ has produced since it began in 1997. Here users can search our data archive by industry, by […]
Newspapers and Section Front Advertising
The LA Times editors are in a tizzy about the prospect of advertising on their section fronts. Apparently they don’t read their own website.
A 'Duh' Moment for Newspapers
Finally, finally, some newspapers are linking systematically outside their own empires.