Category: Journalism

The Collapse of Print

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Derek Thompson at The Atlantic:

Call it creative if you want, but this is what economic destruction looks like. Print newspaper ads have fallen by two-thirds from $60 billion in the late–1990s to $20 billion in 2011.

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So the reason newspapers are in trouble isn’t that they aren’t making lots of money – they still are; advertising is a huge, huge business, as any app developer will try to tell you – but that their business models and payroll depend on so much more money. The U.S. newspaper industry was built to support $50 billion to $60 billion in total advertising with the kind of staffs that a $50 billion industry can abide. The layoffs, buyouts, and bankruptcies you hear about are the result of this massive correction in the face of falling revenue.

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NYT Cuts Free Digital Articles to 10/Month

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Reuters:

New York Times Co said on Tuesday it will halve the number of free articles readers can view on its NYTimes.com site.

Starting in April visitors to the website will be able to read up to 10 free articles a month, down from 20 free articles previously. The change comes one year after launching the paid digital subscription, which now has 454,000 paid subscribers.

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Newspapers Online

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Edmund Lee:

U.S. newspapers lost $10 in print advertising revenue last year for every $1 they gained online, a deeper loss than in 2010, as competition from Internet companies increases, a study by Pew Research Center found.

Newspaper revenues declined more sharply last year than in 2010 when publishers lost $7 in print advertising for every $1 generated from online outlets, according to Pew’s study entitled “State of the News Media,” which is published today.

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More on Linked Lists

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I’ve thought a lot about this over the last few days.

Currently, everything on 512 Pixels would be considered a “post” on a DF-style blog. That is, that the headline goes to the permalink for the post itself, not to the linked content.

The most common criticism of this set up is that it seems like I’m double-dipping for page views. (Granted, I’ve gotten a whole two emails about this in 4 years.)

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NPR’s Ethic Standards

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NPR:

Our purpose is to pursue the truth. Diligent verification is critical. We take great care to ensure that statements of fact in our journalism are both correct and in context. In our reporting, we rigorously challenge both the claims we encounter and the assumptions we bring. We devote our resources and our skills to presenting the fullest version of the truth we can deliver, placing the highest value on information we have gathered and verified ourselves.

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‘I Hesitated’

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From a great post by Elizabeth Cawein, editor of my student newspaper my junior year of high school:

And then, very abruptly, I’d written: “Someone asked me today if I was passionate about journalism. I hesitated.”

I went on to push at all the big questions: is this really what I want to be doing? Is what I’ve always planned for my life and my career the right thing for me? Do I love this or not? Does that matter?

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Two Journalists Killed in Syria

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CNN:

The deaths of two Western journalists Wednesday in Syria — where at least three other journalists have been killed in covering the uprising — highlight the danger reporters face in covering conflict zones.

Marie Colvin, a longtime American foreign correspondent for London’s The Sunday Times, and prize-winning war photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, were killed in shelling in the city of Homs, the besieged center of resistance to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

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