The faltering of the Sun-Times Media Group has far-reaching implications for 83 smaller newspapers. The company owns community papers in the Metropolitan Chicago area and surrounding suburbs, as well as other papers through Illinois and Indiana. The implications are staggering for those communities.
“Nonprofit status would muffle or silence newspapers’ editorial voice and add in layers of regulatory control that we cannot begin to predict, going in.”
“As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in its 62-year history,” reported the New York Times. Said Springer chief executive Mathias Döpfner, “I don’t believe in the end of journalism.” “I don’t believe….”…
Here’s a lede you’ll see only in alt-media: “Shane McConkey was one crazy motherfucker.”Will that kind of a lead consign the outlet that runs it (in this case, by the B.C. online magazine The Tyee) to always being alt-media? When is the use of obscenity appropriate?
“Academic jargon that obscures meaning must be replaced by crisp, understandable conclusions,” said an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, by CMAJ section editor Noni MacDonald and André Picard…
Journalists who work online are worried the Internet is undermining journalism’s professional values, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism. A slight majority of respondents believed journalism is on the “wrong track,” with many citing declining journalistic standards as their main concern. However, the study notes, online journalists are more optimistic about the future than those who work in…
You know it’s bad when your ‘business plan’ is also known as ‘CBC bloodbath.’ J-Source provides the details and links to information on English and French program cuts. If you want to see how the scene looks on the ground, visit Bill Stovin’s blog, which details the loss of Saskatchewan’s northern service. The Town Hall…
“After two newspapers that were older than ours, the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, folded within the past month, it’s clearer than ever that a proud past doesn’t ensure a prosperous future. We are feeling the same pressures as all newspaper companies. In fact, beyond the national economic problems and the industry turmoil,…
Alain Théroux, ProjetJ | Pour bien jauger Twitter, il importe d’en maîtriser les rouages. En quelques lignes : la recette pour optimiser la communication en moins de 140 caractères. Étape 1 : Une machine à mot limitéeCréé par un enthousiaste de la cyberamitié, Jack Dorsey, ancien répartiteur de taxi dans la jeune trentaine, Twitter permet…
Colette Brin, ProjetJ | Les commentaires des internautes devront désormais être approuvés avant d’être publiés sur les blogues de Cyberpresse, comme c’est déjà le cas pour plusieurs sites Web de journaux, dont le New York Times. Marie-Claude Lortie explique que cette mesure assurera qu’ils répondent “à des critères précis assurant leur qualité, leur pertinence et…