future of news

Will the Metaverse save journalism? Members Public

A big and important post on the future of news. Or not.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
metaverse

Digital News Report 2021: a good crisis for the media? Members Public

Four European journalists discuss the findings of the latest edition of the annual research into news, and how it compares with their own titles' pandemic experiences.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital news report

Metamorphosis of the Journalist Members Public

In today’s round-up of good internet reading, we learn to love the niche, look (again( at newsletters, and get attention hacking

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
niche

Digital journalism: time for invention, not migration Members Public

Kevin Anderson [http://charman-anderson.com/2015/02/03/local-journalism-business-models-that-dont-rely-on-scale/] : > For too long we’ve been trying to find a market for the same products that we used to deliver in print, and that just won’t work. We can’t simply write that local council story the same way

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital journalism

Inside the mind of the fake Jeff Jarvis Members Public

I really enjoyed this profile of Rurik Bradbury [http://digiday.com/platforms/profjeffjarvis-thinkfluencing/], the man behind the amusing Jeff Jarvis parody account @ProfJeffJarvis [https://twitter.com/ProfJeffJarvis]: > A main target of Bradbury’s satire is the Orwellian lengths to which major tech players go to distort language. […] Bradbury’s

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
future of news

Claire Enders, Schrödinger's Cat and the death of local newspapers Members Public

There’s a weird triumphalism is the air this morning, as Hold The Front Page points out that Claire Enders’ famous prediction five years ago that half of the UK’s local newspapers would be dead by now [http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2014/news/editors-blog-why-claire-enders-was-wrong-about-newspaper-closures/] : > Obtaining a precise

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Claire Enders

Journalists: the problem isn't better, it's different Members Public

John L. Robinson spotsa great observation about journalism [http://johnlrobinson.com/2012/05/more-advice-for-newspapers-its-time-to-take-it/] byStijn Debrouwere [http://stdout.be/2012/05/04/fungible/]: > Because the entire point is that journalism is not being disrupted by better journalism but by things that are hardly recognizable as journalism at all. Stepping

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
competition