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Please Stop Whining About The "Death Of Journalism"

Henry Blodget | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

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

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.

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The Boston Globe's Future Unclear As Sale Deadline Passes

nytimes.com | RICHARD PEREZ-PENA | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media

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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...

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Life After Print: URB Magazine 2.0

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

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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.

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Ask a Panicked Print Media Executive

Steve Ross | Posted 09.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Print Media, Social Media, Unemployment, Humor, Satire, Death of Print, New Media, Death of Newspapers, Media, Facebook, Ereaders, Comedy News

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.

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Are Obituaries Obsolete?

Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Obituaries, Michael Jackson, Obituary, Newspapers, Michael Jackson Death, Death-of-Print, Ted Kennedy, Death, Living News

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.

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Dead Media? Not So Fast, Bub

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media

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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.

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Culture Clash

Kevin Naff | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

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Launching a major newspaper web site in 1996 offered hints of the trouble to come.

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Confessions Of A Roller-Coaster Addict

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Media, Television, Small Business, Television Ratings, Intrnet, Start-Ups, Death of Print, Roller Coasters, Death of Newspapers, Media News

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.

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Thanks The New Republic!

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media

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I am grateful to The New Republic for providing the space for long essays on complex subjects.

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On the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor

Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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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."

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Sonia's Wiki Wonder

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

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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.

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How Media Will Pay for Poor Warning on Financial Collapse

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media

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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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Technology, Not War, Is the Solution to Publishing

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media

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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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Newspapers Want Cash for Content. Tough Luck

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media

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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

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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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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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Bye-Bye Books

Charles Warner | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media

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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.

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Is It Time For a Newspaper Bail-Out?

Johann Hari | Posted 04.22.2009 | Media

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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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Books Aren't Dying

Patrick deWitt | Posted 04.04.2009 | Media

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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.

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Under Weight Of Its Mistakes, Newspaper Industry Staggers: Washington Post

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 04.01.2009 | Media

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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. ...

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

Abi Wright | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media

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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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Con Games: Time For Newspapers Is Past

Michael Conniff | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

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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.

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The Axe, the Book, and the Ad

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media

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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.

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Jon Friedman Tries To Save Portfolio

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.15.2008 | Media

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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...

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