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PEJ Report – The Changing Newspaper Newsroom

PEJ Report – The Changing Newspaper Newsroom

The Project for Excellence in Journalism (funded by the PEW Charitable Trust) has an excellent report out on the Changing Newspaper Newsroom – with some very interesting statistics that seem to imply the newspapers still haven’t got the message about their value proposition. It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, and the stories are shorter. There is less foreign and national news, less space devoted to science, the arts, features and a range of…

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Steve Rubel: A Perfect Storm for Print Media?

Steve Rubel: A Perfect Storm for Print Media?

It’s getting to the point of irrelevance…but yet another good piece with yet another reason print media is doomed…this time from Steve Rubel at Micropersuation (and Edelman Digital). Consider this a rather simplistic theory for a Saturday morning. However, it’s my view that – as if they didn’t have enough to worry about – newspaper and magazine publishers may see a perfect storm accelerate if gas prices continue to escalate. There are three factors at work here – some go…

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The New Yorker proclaims newspapers “Out of Print”

The New Yorker proclaims newspapers “Out of Print”

Okay, I hadn’t seen this when I posted my previous bit.  All in all its a very bad day for the print media.  Quoting from Eric Alterman’s article: …trends in circulation and advertising––the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising––have created a palpable sense of doom. Independent, publicly traded American newspapers have lost forty-two per cent of their market value in the past…

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