Will public funding, the public radio model be the savior for high quality, ethically sound journalism? Laura Walker, President and Chief Executive Officer of WNYC Public Radio, says, “I don’t think it is an easy model, I think it’s actually harder, and I think it gets underestimated.” To learn more, watch the Leonard Witt video [...]
By Leonard Witt
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Tagged Center for Sustainable Journalism, foundations, Future of Journalism, journalism business models, Laura Walker, Leonard Witt, public funding, public radio, video interview, WNYC
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A new picture of how we get our news is emerging from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. A new study shows the internet is now the third most popular news source, behind local and national television news, beating out newspapers and radio. Here are some revealing numbers:
92% of Americans get their news from [...]
February 25, 2010 – 6:46 pm
The Newspaper Association of America has a new poll showing 57% of adults prefer newspaper websites for local information and online advertising. The survey of 3,050 people is called Site Matters: The Value of Local Newspaper Web Sites. It ranks newspapers tops for local news, sports, entertainment and classifieds. This should give hope to newspaper [...]
February 23, 2010 – 12:01 am
Penelope Abernathy, the Knight Chair in Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says “Everyone likes to talk about how quality news is very expensive, but it pales in comparison to what the costs to sustain a two-century old legacy system of printing and distribution are,” adding, “The first is that [...]
February 18, 2010 – 11:18 am
Today Paul Bass’s New Haven Independent is featured in a New York Times article about journalism change. Leonard Witt did the following video interview recently with Bass for his Future of Journalism of series. Bass says, “The future of journalism I think is the flowering of independent news websites as well as the morphing of [...]
February 17, 2010 – 12:01 am
There was a time when folks leisurely read their news over breakfast. Alas, Northwestern University researcher Pablo Boczkowski has found that now people are reading most of their news on the internet at work. Their new reading habits are such that, according to Boczkowski, it is unlikely that they will pay for the news. Boczkowski [...]
February 9, 2010 – 12:01 am
As part of Leonard Witt’s video series on the Future of Journalism he spoke with Robert Picard, a well respected media economist; when Witt asked him the big question about the Future of Journalism, Picard responded:
I’m very optimistic about the future of news and journalism. I’m not as optimistic about large bureaucratized organizations that have [...]
January 18, 2010 – 11:47 am
Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols discuss their new book The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again with NOW’s David Brancaccio “about the perils of a shrinking news media landscape, and their bold proposal to save journalism with government subsidies.”
They discuss the idea of providing [...]
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Tagged Bob McChesney, Death and Life of American Journalism, government subsidies, John Nichols, journalism, journalism business models, newspapers, reinvent journalism, Robert McChesney, save journalism, sustainable journalism
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January 12, 2010 – 12:02 am
Yesterday, after using the Baltimore media ecosystem as a case study, the Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) issued a rather gloomy report on the state of local news. A few weeks ago, I asked Tom Rosenstiel, director of PEJ, if he was an optimist or pessimist about the state of the journalism. [...]
By Leonard Witt
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Tagged Center for Sustainable Journalism, Future of Journalism, Leonard Witt, local news, newspapers, PEJ, Pew, Project for Excellence in Journalism, reinvent journalism, Tom Rosenstiel, Video Interviews
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January 7, 2010 – 12:01 am
Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens says anyone contemplating a journalism start-up should think of getting a mobile presence first and then think of a computer application that plays off the app, not the other way around. Indeed, if he were starting the Geek Squad today, it would not be providing support for computers, it would [...]
By Leonard Witt
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Tagged Android, Center for Sustainable Journalism, Future of Journalism, Geek Squad, Leonard Witt, mobile, newspapers, Robert Stephens, smart phones, tablets
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