future of news
Will the Metaverse save journalism? Paid Members Public
A big and important post on the future of news. Or not.
Digital News Report 2021: a good crisis for the media? Paid 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.
Metamorphosis of the Journalist Paid 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
Digital journalism: time for invention, not migration Paid 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 that
Inside the mind of the fake Jeff Jarvis Paid 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 semantic
Claire Enders, Schrödinger's Cat and the death of local newspapers Paid 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 figure
Journalists: the problem isn't better, it's different Paid 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 up
