As classified advertising’s “rivers of gold” dry up, so too will the numbers of talented journalists employed by the mainstream media, says Robert Gottliebsen. But it won’t just be a blow to the newspaper industry: it will also weaken Australia as a democracy.
Future of journalism
Collaboration: is it the future of investigative journalism?
On Sunday, The New York Times published a gripping 13,000 word investigative article on Hurricane Katrina. With a value of $US400,000 could it have been written without the help of not-for-profits?
Watching the slow death of traditional political TV, part 1
Is traditional political television dying? Have the likes of Insiders and the Laurie Oakes interview been left behind by new media and canny politicians? Bernard Keen weighs-in in the first of a two-part series.
Crikey Says: Murdoch talks journalism but lacks credibility
James Murdoch’s view on the media have a major credibility problem — they are the views of a Murdoch.
What will the media look like in five years?
In 2004, Twitter and Youtube didn’t exist, print media was still booming, and CNN still broadcast its news in one dimension. A lot can happen in five years. So how will the next five play out for the mediasphere? Analysts predict what the press will look like in 2014.
Getting more buck for your byline
The New York Times has found a new revenue stream: putting its big-name journos to work teaching online university classes. For a few hundred bucks, budding hacks can take a wine class from Eric Asimov, or learn about third world exploitation from Nicholas Kristof.
The most important speech of James Murdoch’s career
James Murdoch is to deliver one of the most crucial British lectures on the media industry, the MacTaggart Lecture. It will be 20 years after his dad Rupert Murdoch made the same lecture. How similar are their views?
Turning TIME magazine into TIME.com
A fascinating interview with Josh Tyrangiel, Managing Editor of TIME.com, who explains why some of the print magazine’s best content just doesn’t work online, and how their online journalists and editors tighten and rewrite articles in a way that does fit the medium.
Future of journalism? Not using paywalls
We can tweet news, blog it, send the link to our facebook friends. Social media helps readers to engage with journalism. Paywalls simply reiterate the old idea of journalism as a lecture, not a conversation, writes Tama Leaver.
The game is up for old-school sports writers
The days of the old-fashioned sports writer are over, says John Koblin, with general columnists on the way out and beat-specific analysts, who can Tweet and blog on one area of expertise, moving in.
HuffPost Social: the future or the death of journalism?
The Huffington Post has partnered with Facebook to release a new feature called HuffPost Social News, allowing users to track and share the HuffPo articles they’re reading. It’s the futureof journalism, says Chadwick Matlin, although it won’t necessarily be its saviour.
Fairfax’s strategic future: Crikey readers weigh in
We asked, and a handful of you cared enough to answer. Here are some Crikey reader’s thoughts on the strategic direction of Fairfax.
Death of newspapers: it’s the advertising, stupid
Newspapers aren’t dying because readers are no longer buying them. The main problem is that advertisers, whose ads have always paid the cost of journalism, are deserting newspapers.
Journalists to get crafty with artisanal news
What would happen if news — and journalism — turned artisanal? Neatly crafted sentences, specialist niche audiences and a finely tuned use of technology might help save the media.
ABC: it’s your newspaper
Nothing covers complex news stories like the written word. Which is exactly why we need a publicly funded ABC newspaper, writes Jeff Sparrow. And it can hire all the sacked journos!
Tony Martin: will the media make you a junkie?
Was free web news content supposed to be a drug, getting us hooked and then we’d be desperate to pay to get our next hit of Kyle Sandilands? asks Tony Martin.
Writers: the cheapest employees in town?
Perhaps with all the debate on how journalism can survive, rather than wondering “should writers write for free?”, we should ask “to what extent should we write for free?”.
Dan Rather: Obama must save the media
Veteran newsman Dan Rather calls on US President Barack Obama to save the ailing news industry with a Presidential commission into what he calls “a crisis that, with no exaggeration, threatens our democratic republic at its core.”
The case for non-objective journalism
Remaining wholly objective is considered a fundamental tenant of quality journalism — but perhaps it’s time reporters started connecting and collaborating with their subjects, in order to preserve an even more important value: the truth. Writer Courtney E. Martin makes the case.
How Gawker stole my story, killed journalism
Washington Post journo Ian Shapira was delighted to see a story he’d penned featured on hip media gossip site Gawker… until he realised they’d just “cherry picked” his hard work. Sing along if you know the words: “the internet is killing journalism…”
Chris Anderson: the future is free
Salon probes the mind of Chris Anderson, editor of Wired and author of controversial book “Free”, who says newspapers don’t matter, online writers are happy working for nothing and “free” is the future of the media.
Future of journalism: Jon Stewart with journalists?
How does a show a la Jon’s Stewart’s Daily Show with real journalists sound? That’s what NPR’s Ira Glass is proposing as the future of the journalism: real news using real language.
Meet the journalist of the future
Multimedia journalist Adam Westbrook imagines the media hack of the future: someone who has new and old technical skills, can build and run a website, has an entrepreneurial bent, and most of all, can still spin a good yarn.
How journalism became a middle-class profession
Once upon a time, the popular British press was the domain of the working class while the broadsheets were staffed by the middle class, says Roy Greenslade. Not anymore.
Former P-I journos launch new site
Perhaps taking a leaf from some former colleagues, a group of journos from the now defunct Seattle P-Inewspaper have launched a new website dedicated to investigative journalism, InvestigateWest.
