Why foundation ownership is a bad idea
Can’t get enough about how to fund newspapers in the 21st century? The latest to weigh in is Jack Shafer on Slate.com. His verdict: It’s a bad idea to divorce the newspaper from market pressures.
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Online video stats: Is anyone actually working?
We know online video is popular, but the latest US numbers were startling nevertheless: US Internet users viewed 14.3 billion (yup, with a “b”) in December alone–averaging 96 (!) videos per Internet user for that month.
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NY Times: Pay wall under (re)consideration?
Less than two years after pulling down the pay wall, NY Times executive editor Bill Keller has hinted that a consumer-pays model may reappear on the paper’s website, says a report on The Huffington Post.
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Journalist death toll down in 2008, rises again in early ’09
The 2008 death toll in journalism, reported the International Federation of Journalists, was 109 reporters and other news media workers killed on assignment. That figure looks better than 175 deaths last year but the federation warned that a wave of killings in January this year could mean 2008 was a short respite. Iraq remained the…
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“Mr. Dying” tracks media
Utne has the goods on the guy tracking the death of North American media on Twitter. “The media is dying” is a virtual death knell of journalism, so relentless in its bad news and profoundly depressing I sometimes ignore Twitter for hours because I just can’t look any more…
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Jail for photographing police in UK?
New anti-terrorism laws set to be introduced in the UK next month are expected to increase the powers of police office to stop photographers from taking photos in public places.
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Five solutions for Canadian journalism
Tough times for newspapers are not just bad for journalists, they are bad for society. Former Toronto Star publisher John Honderich suggests five models for rescuing public interest journalism in an era of revolutionary change.
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A blast from the past: funny and sad
“Imagine … turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper! It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds…”Hat tip to the NY Times’s “Bits.”
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Magazines Canada cancels leading PD program
Budget cutbacks and travel restrictions have led to the cancellation of Magazines Canada’s highly regarded annual School for Professional Publishing, reports D.B. Scott on his blog, Canadian Magazines.
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Make that $114 billion. For all of ’em
That’s what it would take to save every American newspaper in perpetuity as non-profit organizations, says Zachary M Seward at Nieman Journalism Lab. But he argues the important question isn’t “How much?” It’s “Should we?”