The Globe poll online as of Sunday evening): Do you think it’s important to have a local newspaper?No, online media can fill the gap — 18 per centNo, I don’t read my local paper 11 per centYes, a newspaper keeps me informed 46 per centYes, a newspaper holds government accountable 26 per centI suppose journalists…
That’s the title of a massive, must-read piece in the Globe and Mail about the decline of journalism. The sub-title says, “… if print is a dinosaur, what will take up its traditional roles — informing the public, animating civic culture and holding government accountable? For all the wonders of online media, so far no…
This is one of the best journalism ideas I’ve heard all year: The U.S. Stony Brook University proposes to hire and train 50 laid-off journalists to teach a new discipline, “news literacy.” They’ll begin this fall at dozens of U.S. campuses, teaching non-journalism majors about the importance of news to democracy. A media giraffe piece…
Jon Stewart, the comedian on the Daily Show whose satire has achieved the bizarre reputation of being some of the most responsible U.S. “journalism,” has lately attacked the performance of the financial media, especially CNBC, as incompetent in their reporting of Wall Street, the 2008 economic collapse and sub-prime mortgage crisis. Stewart and CNBC host…
Reader’s Digest Canadian Operations announced the lay-off of Peter Stockland, VP and Editor-in-Chief, English Magazines. The company said in a news release Stockland’s position will be replaced by his former French counterpart Robert Goyette, who received a promotion to VP, Book Editorial and Editor-in-Chief, Magazines. RD said the move is part of its recession plan…
If newspapers are dying, here’s why: A lot of people don’t care. That message comes through loud and clear in a recent poll conducted by Pew Research. Asked if they’d miss their local paper if it had to shut down, only 33 per cent of respondents said they’d miss it a lot. Forty-two per cent said “not much” or “not at…
“But I think it more enlightening to flip that question, and ask again: Can newspapers survive without the communities they need to sustain them?”
“NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — We’re seeing the newspaper business collapse in slow motion, but what will replace it? That’s the question behind a wave of start-ups trying to find a new model for local journalism.”
“Hyperlocal websites, both existing and those to launch will thrive as they become the only place to find community news; in 2009 community newspapers will fold in record numbers.”
“In the debate about the future of news production in a networked age, the question of the moderately local (or rather, the question of the neither “big” nor “hyperlocal”) remains the great unanswered question.”