Death of Newspapers

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Five Suicidal Print Media Assumptions

Mike Doyle | Posted 05.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Social Media Tools, Internet News Media, Declining Newspaper Industry, Death of Newspapers, Journalism, Newspaper Industry, Chicago News

Some journalists believe beyond reason that by hiding atop a lofty tower or inside a narrow niche, they can still manage to monetize the old, ink-and-paper industry.

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Giving Away Free Netbooks to Save America's Newsrooms

Will Bunch | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Philadelphia Daily News, Netbooks, Newspapers, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, Digital Divide, Philadelphia-Pennsylvania, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, Online News, News, Newspaper Industry, Media News

What if newsrooms put their remaining muscle behind a program to provide information to the public and close the digital divide at the same time? That's "social benefit" we can believe in.

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Media Literacy 101: Power to the People

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Uk, K-12 Education, Education, Twitter, Fox Nation, Media Literacy, News Literacy, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Higher Education, Digital Literacy, Journalism, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Media News

We call our children digital natives. But a digital generation is made, not born. Children must learn not just how to surf, link, load and click, but how to ask, judge and think to understand our world.

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Journalism - a Luxury Pursuit

Heidi Kingstone | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Print Journalism, Journalism, Media News

Right now journalism is stuck in an interregnum -- no longer able to cling to the past but not quite sure how to navigate the future.

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The Christian Science Monitor's Media Milestone

Al Eisele | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Death of Newspapers, Christian Science Monitor Online, Christian Science Monitor, Media News

The demise of the daily Monitor's print edition was only the latest example of how newspapers are rapidly moving from doorstep to desktop as they grapple with life in the brave new world of the Internet.

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Writers at the End of Print

Giles Slade | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media

Read More: USA Today, Rocky Mountain News, Apple Iphone, John King, San Francisco Chronicle, Nancy Grace, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New York Times, Amazon Kindle, Ebooks, Newspapers, Kindle, Books, Death of Newspapers, Online Books, Unemployed Writers, Media News

It is now much easier and cheaper to publish a book than ever before.

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It's Not the New York Times

Michael Wolff | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Media News

The Times paring of 100 jobs and salary cuts will reduce the paper to an imitation of itself. If few people care about the end of the Times, fewer still will notice that it is ending.

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How to Become a "Death of Newspapers" Blogger

Paul Dailing | Posted 04.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Internet, Newspapers, Paul Gillin, Old Media vs. New Media, Jay Rosen, Bloggers, Old Media Death Watch, Online, Jeff Jarvis, Steve Outing, New Media, Death of Newspapers, Media, Clay Shirky, Newspaper Industry, Comedy News

The more you self-reference, pick feuds and talk about the failure of TimesSelect, the better you're doing. If you make it sound like you're the one who figured out newspapers are dying, you win.

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The End of Newsprint, Not Newspapers

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 04.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Itunes, Newspapers, Apple, Technology, Karel, Charles Karel Bouley, Newspaper Industry, Internet, Death of Newspapers, Media News

The problem today is monetizing it. And again, that's the fault of the newspapers and their owners. There are ways. People make money on the web. People on the cutting edge.

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Is It Time For a Newspaper Bail-Out?

Johann Hari | Posted 04.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Newspapers, Print Journalism, Sarkozy Newspapers, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, News, Online News, Nicolas Sarkozy, Newspaper Industry, Media News

In an age of bail-outs, several European governments are experimenting with ways to support the world of news-gathering so it will survive for the twenty-first century.

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Last Newspaper Reader Cancels Subscription

William Klein | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Michael Bloomberg, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wolf Blitzer, Journalism, Humor, Satire, Political Satire, Media News

Millions of readers who had been thought to give a damn about reading print turned out to relieved they didn't have to pretend anymore. "You can feel informed in a fraction of the time," said a prominent attorney who requested anonymity.

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Old Growth Media and the Future of News

Steven Johnson | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Macworld, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, newassignment.net, Newspaper Industry, Media News

The steady transformation from desert to jungle may be the single most important trend we should be looking at when we talk about the future of news.

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Unemployed Journalist Corps

Steven Waldman | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Peace Corps, Death of Newspapers, Journailsm, Media News

We have growing numbers of unemployed journalists. We have zillions of dollars being spent by the federal government, a recipe for mismanagement. Ho...

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Can the Times Pay the Rent?

Michael Wolff | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, Newspaers, US Recession, Media News

Arthur Gregg Sulzberger's situation is achingly existential, caught as he is between cosseted past and harsh future, his career and reason for being hanging wholly hostage to the recession's depth.

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Is the Future of Journalism Goop?

Vanessa Richmond | Posted 04.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Death of Newspapers, The Daily Beast, Gwyneth Paltrow, Journalism, Goop, Media News

Gwyneth Paltrow could be the future of journalism. Not as the subject of articles or magazines, but the writer and publisher of them.

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How to Rescue Local Newspapers

Spencer Green | Posted 04.04.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, News, Newspaper Industry, Comedy News

New section: "What to do around town when you're finished getting real news off the Internet." Print stories on chocolate. More stories on foxy boxing.

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What We Lost When We Lost Rocky -- Paper First Exposed Teen Torture

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Boot Camps, Tough Love, Rocky Mountain News, Media, Abuse, Wwasps, Teens, Rocky Mountain News Closing, Death of Newspapers, Media News

Just last week, Denver lost the Rocky Mountain News and before its website disappears, I wanted to share an example of just how much newspapers matter.

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Newspaper Disaster? It's All My Fault. I'm The One

Phil Bronstein | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Phil Bronstein, San Francisco Chronicle, Media, Death of Newspapers, Media News

I should have helped much more than I did to figure out how best to use that web thing to exponentially boost our role as journalists and better serve and involve our audiences.

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Open Letter to MSNBC President Phil Griffin

Jennifer Nix | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, David Sirota, Msnbc, Populism, Television Ratings, Death of Newspapers, Progressive Movement, Keith Olbermann, Center for American Progress, Blogs, Phil Griffin, Progress, Media Matters, Activism, Rachel Maddow, Traditional Media, New Media, Television News, Media News

I hope you'll take a moment to consider why I think your move with the 10 p.m. program is so important, and why David Sirota is the best candidate for host.

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When You Don't Understand the Business You're in, You're Screwed (Good-Bye Newspapers)

James Boyce | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Layoffs, Job Losses, Rocky Mountain News, Death of Newspapers, Media, San Francisco Chronicle, Newspaper Closings, Media News

Ironically, delivering news through new media is cheap, fast and easy. Readers made the transition, it's just too bad so many newspapers, with so many good people, never did.

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Newsrooms Must Die, Long Live Newsrooms!

Sally Duros | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago

Information has risen to the level of being a most pressing community need in our current democracy. More than ever, a newsroom must be a mission-based place.

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Appetite for Destruction: why an "iTunes for News" is a bad idea

Daniel Sinker | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Itunes, Apple, Journalism, Chicago, Newspapers, Death of Newspapers, Music Industry, Newspaper Industry, Media News

We can talk about saving journalism, or we can talk about saving the established order, but we can't talk about both.

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Initiating a Culture of Compensation

Rob Fishman | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media

Read More: David Swensen, Saving Newspapers, Newspapers, The Future of News, How to Save Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Death of Newspapers, Jack Shafer, Michael Kinsley, David Carr, Walter Isaacson, Media News

As a J-school student, I ask myself: is it crazy to pay for an education in a profession that refuses to charge for its services? Giving away news for free was a terrible folly. It's time now to move on and cough up.

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Tina Brown to Columbia J School Students: Go to India!

Abi Wright | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media

Read More: India, Newsweek, Columbia University, Tina Brown, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, The Daily Beast, Journalism, Columbia Journalism School, Magazines, Media News

As magazines fall by the wayside, Brown explained, there would be a natural selection of sorts, which would force the surviving mags to be more inventive and thoughtful, "less formulaic."

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Human Capital -- an Asset, Not Just an Expense

Doug Struck | Posted 03.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Newspapers, CEO Pay, Unemployment, Finance, Ceos, Economic Crisis, Corporate Greed, Newspaper Industry, Death of Newspapers, Harvard University, Accounting, Stimulus Package, Journalism, Recession, Business News