31 July 2007
"Former ASNE President McGuire on realities the industry faces and ways to overcome a cataclysm" - ASNE
For anyone who cares about newspapers, this is required reading.
"To our readers" The Chicago Tribune
That first page one advertisement is a little hard to pick ou here and there is no link to that first advertiser in either place. This seems to have that advertiser.
30 July 2007
New Life on the Web for a Killed Newspaper Column - New York Times
Newspapers today leak like the internet sieves they have become. There are just too many ways that people can access what a newspaper "has" and too many opportunities for those inside to pass something electronic outside. It's just another attack on an institution that usually has been much more secretive about its work than any government entity the newspaper might have covered.
"Environmentalists Push, but Home Depot Refuses to Drop Ads on Fox News" - The New York Times
What do you suppose Home Depot thinks of newspapers today, in general? Home Depot has not been around for very long in the grand scheme of things. If you plotted the overall importance of the newspaper institution to Home Depot over its life, what do you suppose that line would look like?
"AP Ending Its "asap" Service in October" - Editor & Publisher
So much for that idea on reaching young readers.
"Bancrofts Said Divided as Journal Deadline Looms" - The New York Times
Whether one blames the potential sale of Dow Jones on the decline of family-owned newspapers or on the general decline of printed newspapers, there are principles and values embedded in the institution that is the Wall Street Journal that should be preserved whoever owns it. The greatest tragedy will not be the loss of the Wall Street Journal but rather the loss of the quality commitments made in its news columns and, yes, whether one agrees or disagrees, the quality of the expressions of points of view on the Journal's editorial pages. That's something one has to look very hard to find anywhere in MySpace, Wikipedia or somebody's blog.
29 July 2007
"Dead end" newspaper stories
Why have newspapers not figured out how to keep stories updated in the way that a Wiki entry permits? It's fine to have a historical record of what was published, but why not allow another version to evolve as the facts and circumstances change? In other word, keep the story alive? Very few stories published in newspapers amount to the last word on the matter. Life is like that.
"The Guardian BAE investigation" - Guardian Unlimited
There is no way that this could be presented on newsprint or other paper anywhere near as effectively as it is here.
Sports section advertising
Why is it that newspapers are so unsuccessful in selling advertising in their print sports sections? To what extent is this now true for online sports sections? It seems to me that it is the same, and that while there are some banner ads online, they are not there out of a conscious advertiser decision to appear there in most cases.
"WNBC - News 4 New York" - The New York Times
This will not happen here - the cancelling of a broadcast news program! Such be part of the value of the web, in so many cases, over traditional media.
"Find Browzer's Biscuits" - News & Observer
Newspapers in recent years, especially outside the US, have used really odd promotional gimmicks in order to get people to buy copies. To the extent that anyone views this as a plus, count it as a plus on line too as evidenced here by "Browzer's Biscuits".
28 July 2007
"Stupeur" à la Tribune après les déclaration de Bernard Arnault (LVMH)" - Agence France Presse
Another newspaper owner - this time in Paris - announces that his newly-acquired financial daily (La Tribune) is effectively impossible to make profitable.
27 July 2007
"Four die in mid-air chopper crash" - smh.com.au
I don't know of a single incident in which a newspaper reporter has ever died in one of these tragic incidents involving useless activity in the false name of news. Management remorse over sending these people to their death seems to be missing here or here. Bravo to Jeff Jarvis for making the discouraging point so well.
26 July 2007
iGoogle and The New York Times
One of the positives of newspapers as we known them in print is there front page. The New York Times has preserved a lot of the Page One value in their website. It is lost completely in iGoogle if you add the NYT as a news source. Creative people ought to be able to solve this. Some of the comments on this page suggest that others agree that there is much work to be done.
Bill MOYERS making the transition
People in the newspaper business have made the move from print to the digital world at different times and at different speeds. Bill MOYERS is still in process, but look at his bio and see where he started and some of the newspaper things he has done in his life. Then look at where you find him today - yes, broadcast on PBS - but also unleashing some of the power of the web to provide more value to the people who want to relate to him better than they could at a newspaper.
Reorienting....
We are going to try to use this blog as a way to do several things. One will be to recognize that the newspaper as a primarily print insitution is beginning its inevitable decline. Another is that the qualities and values we associate with newspapers are worth keeping.
From that base, we'll try to help you use this and related offerings as a way to profit from the new newspaper of the web here at Newspaper.com and to chronicle the changes in the newspaper world as newspapers everywhere move in this direction.
Eventually, we hope to be the survivor in a process that will take time.
For now, think of us as the place with what's new and valuable from and about newspapers and a great way to help ease your and their transition from the print newspaper of yesterday to this web newspaper of tomorrow.
We hope Newspaper.com will be as good as any print newspaper you can remember and better than most.
Roll those digital presses!!!!
From that base, we'll try to help you use this and related offerings as a way to profit from the new newspaper of the web here at Newspaper.com and to chronicle the changes in the newspaper world as newspapers everywhere move in this direction.
Eventually, we hope to be the survivor in a process that will take time.
For now, think of us as the place with what's new and valuable from and about newspapers and a great way to help ease your and their transition from the print newspaper of yesterday to this web newspaper of tomorrow.
We hope Newspaper.com will be as good as any print newspaper you can remember and better than most.
Roll those digital presses!!!!
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