Please Stop Whining About The "Death Of Journalism"
The Internet is doing to the news business the same thing it has done to dozens of other industries: disrupting it. As always, this disruption is painful, but it's not necessarily bad.
The Internet is doing to the news business the same thing it has done to dozens of other industries: disrupting it. As always, this disruption is painful, but it's not necessarily bad.
nytimes.com | RICHARD PEREZ-PENA | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media
Prospective buyers of The Boston Globe faced a Friday deadline for submitting firm bids, but it remained unclear what would happen next -- or even whe...
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
While many have quickly lamented URB's print hiatus or reminisced about our long legacy, there is also an unfortunate feeding frenzy on even the hint of print's presumed, imminent demise.
Steve Ross | Posted 09.18.2009 | Comedy
I used to eat at Michaels, front of the room, with the likes of Joan Didion and David Brooks. Now I'm packing peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and shudder every time the phone rings.
Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I don't need to wait until the morning papers to get the full life stories of dead luminaries. In fact, I don't even need to wait until they are dead.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media
You go to an airport and all you see is magazines. Even the books look like magazines. There are at least seven separate magazines still interested in Jon and Kate. Dead? Magazines? Who says so? The Internet.
Kevin Naff | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
Launching a major newspaper web site in 1996 offered hints of the trouble to come.
Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
The roller-coaster requires thinking that is more about innovation than protecting your core audience. It's about acknowledging a fundamental change in media makers and consumers.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media
I am grateful to The New Republic for providing the space for long essays on complex subjects.
Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
Having a Supreme Court that better reflects the diversity of America helps ensure that we keep faith with the words over the entrance of the Supreme Court: "Equal justice under law."
Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media
Seconds after the networks say that it's Sotomayor, her Wikipedia entry is updated. The newspapers in my driveway can't do that; that's why on-paper distribution is dying.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media
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.
Penny Herscher | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media
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.
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media
Newspapers are going to war with the Internet--or trying to. So far it's more accurately a phony war.
Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media
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.
Will Bunch | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media
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.
Charles Warner | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media
Disruptive technologies like the printing press and the Internet are no longer appearing every century, or every decade, or every year; they are appearing every month.
Johann Hari | Posted 04.22.2009 | Media
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.
Patrick deWitt | Posted 04.04.2009 | Media
Books aren't going anywhere. The model is changing but the words and stories and paper and ink are proof of a living, vital entity.
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 04.01.2009 | Media
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recalls getting "a feeling in the pit of my stomach" when he learned that the Rocky Mountain News was shutting down. ...
Abi Wright | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media
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."
Michael Conniff | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media
Print publications in general don't have a direct relationship with the individual customer. They don't know who their readers are and they don't know what they want.
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media
As with GM, it has been easier and far more immediately profitable for big publishers to just keep selling the "SUVs" of books until their business model went into the toilet rather than try to prepare for a new world.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.15.2008 | Media
Jon Friedman has a video up today in which he proposes that Conde Nast's coffee table collectible for Wall Street middle managers Portfolio is a "good...
Jack Myers | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business
But newspapers have valuable assets that could enable them to recapture their local market dominance, if they act quickly and definitely.
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media