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Oh, the Hypocrisy: First Amendment Attorneys Would Destroy the Internet to Save Newspapers

Art Brodsky | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, First Amendment, Newspapers, Fair Use, Future of Journalism, Death of Newspapers, Journalism, Media News
Art Brodsky

The sense of entitlement that has characterized the newspaper business for the past 150 years is now going too far, conflating the business of journalism with the freedoms due the practice of journalism.

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Let's Bail Out Newspapers with First Amendment Ads!

Tom Cosgrove | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: First Amendment, Timothy Geithner, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Obama, Frank Rich, Newspaper Industry, Politics News
Tom Cosgrove

Some day, the business will sort out its model. And at that point, the federal government can stop subsidizing newspapers. But until then, we need a bridge. Badly.

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Will Newser End Without Newspapers?

Rob Fishman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., New York Times, Michael Wolff, Death of Newspapers, Newser, Boston Globe, David Carr, Media News
Rob Fishman

Michael Wolff depends entirely on working journalists to make his case that newspapers suck. Wolff can't source a blog without the Times, but we're supposed to renounce the paper?

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Shouldn't That Be His Royal Highness, the "Addled Lord of Print?"

Phil Bronstein | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media

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Phil Bronstein

When great satire can't make it anymore in the printed newspaper world, that's not so funny here in the belly of the Chronicle and at other publications.

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The Future of Journalism is... eBay

Daniel Altman | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Ebay, New York Times, Future, Media, Journalism, Death of Newspapers, Media News
Daniel Altman

With many potential buyers and sellers in the market for journalism, how can freelancers and editors assure themselves of the greatest possible gains from trade?

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How Media Will Pay for Poor Warning on Financial Collapse

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Financial Crisis, Newspapers, Media, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, Financial Media, Media News
Greg Mitchell

The media miss stories all the time, always have, always will. But to miss a story of this enormity, with consequences that will echo for decades, only adds weight to the warnings of doom for the "old" media.

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We Need Heroes in American Journalism

Nancy Snow | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, American Journalism, Katharine Graham, Warren Buffett, Washington Post, Death of Newspapers, Media, Media Heroes, Death of Mainstream Media, Journalism, Media News
Nancy Snow

Truth is, we need heroes in American journalism, and I'm less than optimistic that my journalistic hero is going to be a Facebook friend or someone I'm following on Twitter.

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The Soloist Chases an L.A. That Isn't There

Sharon Waxman | Posted 06.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Steve Lopez, The Soloist, L.A. Times, Sharon Waxman, LA Times, Newspapers, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Sharon Waxman

Once upon a time it fell to the local newspaper to remind me that I was part of an urban landscape, the second largest in the nation. But it started to lose me several years back.

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No Newspapers at Any Price

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 06.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Warren Buffett, Washington Post, Newspapers, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Jeff Jarvis

Every day that papers keep printing is a day that they haven't reinvented themselves for a new reality.

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Limbaugh: "Obama Goes To Mexico -- [They] Get Pig Flu"

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media

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On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh went on a long rant about how anything associated with President Obama ends up failing. He used newspapers and ...

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How Print News Will Survive on the Internet

Mike Doyle | Posted 05.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Media, Death of Newspapers, Online News, Associated Press Fair Use, Newspapers, Chicago Sun-Times, Chi-Town Daily News, Newspaper Industry, Chicago News
Mike Doyle

It doesn't matter what you were taught in journalism school, relevance on the Internet is demonstrated by disclosing who you are, what you think, and why.

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Extra! Extra! Newspapers Need an Overhaul, Not a "Rescue Plan"

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 05.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Citizen Journalism, New Media, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Senator Kerry, Breaking News, Pulitzer Prize, Media News
Richard M. Benjamin

Any viable rescue plan for newspapers must integrate new media in their operations from bottom up, rather than "tack on" new media as an afterthought to failing operations.

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Newspaper Death Rattle: Movies Don't Tell the Half of It

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Soloist, Robert Downey Jr., State of Play, Catherine Keener, Russell Crowe, Death of Newspapers, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Much has been made of the fact that, within two weeks, we have two movies that deal with the crisis in newspapers that is threatening contemporary journalism as we know it.

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Newspaper That Carries O'Reilly's Column Says He's Way Off Base

Steve Young | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Mariel Garza, Los Angeles Daily News, Death of Newspapers, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Steve Young

Every time Bill O'Reilly uses the downturn or closing of newspapers as a rationale for liberalism as a reason for lost revenue, I wonder why he never uses the same generalization for the closing of any other business.

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Does Information Want to Be Paid For?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Online, Content Aggregators, Online Media, Print Journalims, Media News
Michael Wolff

The old news media believes that all of the stuff it's been giving away for free for a decade or more it ought now get the reader to shell out for.

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Should Newspapers Charge for Online Content? To Answer This Question, You Have to Consult a Lawyer

Peter Scheer | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Politics News, Intellectual Property, Newspapers, Copyright, Bloggers, Content-Aggregators, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Online Newspapers, Blogging, Media News
Peter Scheer

Information wants to be free, but the creators of information also need to eat. Which of these interests ultimately prevails, although partly a business issue, depends fundamentally on legal considerations.

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Technology, Not War, Is the Solution to Publishing

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Non-Profit Foundations, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Publishing, Search Engines, Newspaper Industry, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, News, Online News, Media News
Penny Herscher

The global publishing giants have declared war on the new technology generation of content distributors -- but they have lost sight of what consumers value and how they want to get to the value.

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The Sun Sets on The New York Times

Jessica Olien | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, The Times, British, The New York Times, Raj, Newspapers, Newspaper, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Jessica Olien

Don't get me wrong. I like the Times. I also like a frosty mug of IPA but that doesn't mean I wish India had never gained its independence.

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The Future of Journalism Is Not in the Past

Mark Cooper | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media

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Mark Cooper

The cacophony of the blogosphere is dizzying and overwhelmingly opinion, but it is a vast improvement over a public sphere dominated by corporate media.

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The Ever-Changing Print Medium

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

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Hermene Hartman

News deliveries are fast-forwarding. The technologies provide new mediums. I, for one, am not ready for the discard of newspapers, magazines and books.

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Why Local Newspapers Are the Basis of Democracy

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill of Rights, Civic-Literacy, Death of Newspapers, Democracy, Freedom of the Press, Federalism, Newspapers, Media News
John W. Whitehead

Subscribe to your local newspaper. Read it so you'll know what's happening in your community.

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Good Grief! Comic Characters Leave Newspapers for a Day

Dave Astor | Posted 05.13.2009 | Comedy

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Dave Astor

Given that most newspapers still don't publish weekday comics in color, my mistake was putting today's cartoon guests in the green room rather than the black-and-white room.

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How to Be a "Death of Newspapers" Blogger Part Two: Picking a Fight with Sarah Lacy

Paul Dailing | Posted 05.11.2009 | Comedy

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Paul Dailing

A good Rosenbaum v. Jarvis style feud can drive up hits and increase name recognition for both sides. Maybe we'll be paid to argue on TV.

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Newspapers Want Cash for Content. Tough Luck

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Internet, New York Times, Newspapers, Content-Aggregators, Newspaper Industry, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, News, Online News, Media News
Michael Wolff

Newspapers are going to war with the Internet--or trying to. So far it's more accurately a phony war.

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To Newspaper Moguls: You Blew It

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, News, Online News, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Jeff Jarvis

The Newspaper Association of America is meeting this week and they're preaching angrily and self-righteously about their plight. Here's the speech I think they should hear instead.

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