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13 Feb

The Economist on the future of wire services

The Economist has a look at the backbone of news organizations this week, the wire services, and how they’re reshaping their input and output in the digital age. The magazine […]

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5 Feb

No, newspapers are not dead: Yelvington

Steve Yelvington, the former newspaper exec now consulting on the online end of the business, writes a solid, emotional post on how print isn’t dead. It’s time to stop the […]

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5 Feb

How online advertising depends on the newspaper

In the second instalment of a series, Alan Mutter tries to poke a hole in the belief that stopping the presses would drive up digital advertising for newspaper sites. Mutter, […]

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5 Feb

Layoffs are good for newspapers: Globe and Mail communities ed

Mathew Ingram of The Globe and Mail has put himself out there — way out there — with a post for the Nieman Journalism Lab saying that newspaper layoffs are […]

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22 Jan

Google detaches from the newspaper advertising business

Jeff Jarvis has a new book, What Would Google Do? What Google has been doing for years is aggregating and indexing newspaper material and helping people find it with its […]

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22 Jan

What online editors can do to save their jobs

Danny Sanchez offers 10 tips for online editors to keep their jobs. Become versed in social media. Learn search engine optimization. Experiment with online tools. Create a site. Study the […]

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13 Jan

Internet weakens press authority: Rosen

New York University’s Jay Rosen asserts that the authority of the press is weakened by the Internet. To simplify his idea, it’s because the one-to-many of legacy media has been […]

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13 Jan

New York Times’ David Carr: News needs an iTunes model

Howls are already in the blogosphere over David Carr’s column today in The New York Times on news needing an iTunes model — a way to get people accustomed to […]

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12 Jan

Twitter: Just start

Robert Niles in the Online Journalism Review adds his voice to the crew advocating Twitter for journalists. His advice: Just start. He’s right: There is huge skepticism in the craft […]

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5 Jan

Paul Bradshaw on a new media business model for journalism

From Paul Bradshaw, the driving force at Online Journalism Blog and a lecturer at Birmingham City University, comes this presentation on finding a new media business model. The most interesting […]

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