Likely news organizations don’t know whether to scream or to laugh. Google – one of the biggest culprits in the downfall of newspapers and magazines – preaching to them about “journalistic values.” This from a company, mind you, that spends not one single penny on journalism. A company that aggregates the journalism from hundreds of […]
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Tag Archives: Newspapers
3 Ways to Save Journalism from Extinction
March 21, 2013 
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Let this statistic sink in for a moment. Total number of journalists in the U.S.: 40,000 Total number of Google employees: 54,000 Google was founded in 1998. Journalism may have died around the same time. Try this one on for size. There are 3.6 public relations professionals for every single journalist. Nearly 4 to 1. […]
Read moreThe Great Media Collapse Has Been Epic
March 19, 2013 0 Comments
The business of journalism and news reporting isn’t much of a business anymore. The damage – like a super hurricane battering a low-lying coastal village – has been epic. The collapse, which started in earnest in 2009, has continued unabated since. By the end of this decade we’ll be lucky if any of the huts […]
Read more“The Best Personalized Newspaper in the World”
March 8, 2013 3 Comments
That’s a quote by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg describing Facebook’s newly redesigned News Feed. Amazing, isn’t it? Facebook wants to be a newspaper while its busy putting real newspapers out of business. Oh, the irony. Facebook’s business model is about selling ads around content. But Facebook doesn’t create any content. It’s users do by uploading […]
Read moreHas Journalism Become Elitist?
March 7, 2013 13 Comments
The answer, unfortunately, might be yes. At one point, only a couple of decades ago, newsrooms were filled with reporters culled from the ranks of blue-collar and working class families. When I started in journalism, newsroom were gritty places. Profanity was not only common, but as permanent as the water stains on the ceiling tiles. […]
Read more3 Ideas for the New Boston Globe Owners
February 25, 2013 2 Comments
The Boston Globe is the largest newspaper in New England. The powerhouse regional daily newspaper, which still sets the agenda for daily discourse in Boston and Massachusetts. But it has been dying a not-so-slow death for more than a decade. Like most daily newspapers, the Globe has seen its paid circulation plummet (from a […]
Read moreWill Anyone Ever Pay for Journalism Again?
February 13, 2013 10 Comments
Never giveaway a product if you have to sell it to stay in business. Sounds like a no-brainer doesn’t it? Because guess what happens when no one wants to buy your product anymore? You go out of business. That’s what’s happening to the business of journalism right now. It is slowly, but surely, going out […]
Read moreBTW – Journalism Continues to Collapse
February 1, 2013 13 Comments
Remember 2009? The year that I like to call “The Great Media Collapse.” Layoffs galore. Newspapers folding. Magazines selling for peanuts (remember the $5 million fire sale for BusinessWeek?). 2009 ended with more than 14,000 journalists in the unemployment line and newspaper circulations plunging to the lowest levels since the 1940s. Not a good year […]
Read moreWon’t Get Fooled Again (Except the Next Time)
January 16, 2013 9 Comments
CBS News. Sports Illustrated. The New York Times. ESPN. The New York Post. The Los Angeles Times. All of them – and many, many more media outlets – fooled by a terrible and cruel hoax that could have been discovered with a few phone calls or a search on Google. If this is the state […]
Read moreThe Death of the Deadline
December 5, 2012 6 Comments
One of the enormous changes in journalism during the “internet age” has been the loss of the deadline. The impact of this demise has been significant, but rarely discussed. Yet it may be one of the biggest in changes in the way journalists research, write and publish news stories. When I started as a journalist […]
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