News Ltd is in the same kind of trouble as Fairfax — a collapsing business model before the new business model has had time to get established.
Future of newspapers
Apps not just for Apple fan boys
Major news organisations — think NY Times and Wall Street Journal — are busy building software applications for Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab, the iPad’s next big competitor. It’ll run on Google Android, meaning that one app should work on several different upcoming tablets.
They do it My Way, but do billionaires really care about newspapers?
The indulgences of the rich can take many forms including expensive jewellery, luxury cars, yachts and sports teams. Are newspapers the new must-have item for the uber-rich? And do they really care about their survival?
Peeling away the newspaper wrap biz
Have you ever struggled to remove that annoying plastic wrapping on your daily newspaper? Companies behind a new machine claim they will revolutionise the newspaper wrap industry, but is this just a case of sticky PR?
How Google sees the future of news
Google News creator Krishna Bharat offers up his views on how journalism will change in the next five years, saying news organisations will become more specialised and so will the advertising.
Video of the Day: Imagine if you could read newspapers … on the internet!
Is there anything funnier than seeing the future, as brought to you by the 1980s?
Murdoch and Jobs’ Holy War on bloggers
Steve Jobs is adamant to nip the blogger movement in the bud using iPad newspaper apps, and Rupert Murdoch is happy for him to do so. So far, 20,000 have downloaded Murdoch newspaper apps.
Sacre Bleu! Le Monde gets sexy to save itself
The intellectual Le Monde newspaper has turned to an age-old maxim for survival, flogging erotic novels with subs. But overseas bidders are circling in on the paper, which is uniquely owned by Le Monde journos.
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Dawning of the new Age
The Age briefly let its iPad app appear in iTunes over the weekend, which even includes a voice to read the stories aloud. Mumbrella has the exclusive screen shots.
The Times they are a-changing
An examination of two very different paywalls, the NY Times and Rupert Murdoch’s UK The Times. One’s an nearly impenetrable steel wall, the other lets non-paying visitors slip through the gaps.
must read Two paths for the future of text
Author Steven Berlin Johnson’s excellent take on how the great minds of the 17th and 18th century compiled their favourite passages of text, and what it means for journalism today.
NYT vs. WSJ: the last great newspaper war?
The Wall Street Journal is muscling in on the New York Times’ territory, launching a local New York section. Is this really the last great newspaper war, or just the first great battle of the online news age? asks Wired.
How will the iPad impact Australian newsagents?
With News Limited and Fairfax announcing plans to create applications for the new Apple iPad, maybe now newsagents will start to take notice of the emerging digital channel, writes newsagency owner Mark Fletcher.
Beecher: The iPad won’t save newspapers
The iPad is a wonderful device that will bring joy and utility to millions of people. But it won’t — and can’t — save the economic fate of newspapers.
Kohler: Rupert’s wrong: distribution, not content, is king
Content is not king and never has been. That was a journalistic delusion. The uniqueness and the money in newspapers has always come from distribution.
Video of the Day: Meet generation ‘i’
If there’s still any doubt over the future of the media, let’s settle it now. Watch this two-year-old playing with an iPad for the first time. And you still can’t program the DVD player.
The DIY “future of newspapers” speech
Attention media commentators: have to deliver yet another “future of journalism” keynote at the University of East Bumcrack? Here’s one CJR prepared earlier. Just add water.
Why the iPad can’t save the magazine industry
Business Insider crunches the numbers on the iPad economy: even if iPads sell beyond all expectations, the return for magazines will just be small change compared to their print revenue.
Focusing on the future of photography
The photography industry changed in a flash. With less magazine and newspaper assignments, professional photographers are losing out to cheap amateurs with digital cameras and stock photos.
What newspaper crisis?
There has been a pretty profound change in the readership of national and metro papers over a year, but it’s metro papers that are dropping off in readership, not regional ones, writes Jason Wilson.
How blogs are becoming more like newspapers
Now that blogs and online news sites have become Serious Business, lax fact-checking, vague headlines and poor sub-editing just won’t cut it. To defeat newspapers, they have had to become them, says Ravi Somaiya.
Can a 30-something DJ save the NYT?
NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr is keen to get his offspring involved in the family business, and really, who better to help steer one of the world’s leading papers through the media’s current treacherous climate than his 33-year-old nephew?
VIDEO: Life behind the NY Times paywall
New York Times columnist David Carr has a chat with Media Bistro about what it’s going to be like for journalists to go behind a paywall with the planned metering system.
Google: How can newspapers survive? Ditch the “papers” bit
Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian offers some advice to newspaper publishers: paywalls won’t cure your financial woes — going big online will. Forget costly printed news: news outlets must go 100% online to survive.
