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22 Sep

CJR series tackles questions about future of news

The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is looking at the future of news from all angles in a new series called “Press Forward: Dialogues on the Future of News.” In an […]

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22 Sep

Can reporting prosper in a parasitic golden age?

Information still costs money, but there are ways to make journalism pay its way, Ira Basen and Rem Rieder told a Toronto audience. Melissa Wilson reports. The conversation about journalism […]

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20 Sep

Another model for newspaper survival

David Olive’s new model for newspapers: “shrink the newsprint product to a 32-page broadsheet or tabloid featuring only staff-written feature-length content and the best material available from other publications worldwide.” […]

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19 Sep

UGC (User Generated Content) — get used to it

A paper by John Kelly, published online by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, asks, “Is journalism a profession or a trade?” Kelly acknowledges, “It’s […]

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18 Sep

Anytime, anywhere, on any platform

Robert Picard’s point about taking stock of the various opportunities presented by new technologies in the face of new business environment is quite accurate. The need to demonstrate the value […]

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16 Sep

Major online news companies try innovative experiment in publishing and revenue sharing

The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek and the Daily Beast are all participating in a new news service set up by Google. The news sites will supply screen shots […]

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15 Sep

Journalism in the entrepreneurial age

Funding experiments are welcome and there’s nothing wrong with journalists looking for new ways to pay for reporting, writes Stephen J.A. Ward. But why assume funding from a foundation is […]

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4 Jun

Tina Brown pontificates on the future of journalism online

“In an interview with the Telegraph, Tina Brown expresses her views on the future of newspapers and the professional journalist.   The once queen bee of the high-end glossy magazine industry […]

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4 Jun

Video: I Want Media panel on future of journalism

I Want Media, the website project of New York University journalism professor Patrick Phillips, brought together five leading U.S. media folks to discuss the future of the industry. Phillips moderated […]

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8 May

The New Yorker considers the Future of Journalism

“That, improbably, was the title of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, chaired by John Kerry , at which I testified yesterday alongside David Simon , the former Baltimore Sun reporter […]

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