(lol "the paper here" makes it sound like the entirety of Australia has a single newspaper. Um, I sppose if you count Murdoch press as a single cthulubeast it isnt too far from true, mind you)
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Sunday, 4 September 2011 08:38 (twelve years ago) link
Is there a thread for the prolonged death of the cheese farmer?
http://i.imgur.com/0186q.png
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:34 (twelve years ago) link
I can't work out what's worse, the fact that he was paid to write that shit or that he was prepared to put his name to someone else writing that shit.
― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
Grab a slice and cook it in some leftover bacon juices. That kicks Krispy Kreme's a*** any day.
That kicks Krispy Kreme's a*** any day.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 07:27 (twelve years ago) link
god he's a cunt
― The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. (stevie), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 07:34 (twelve years ago) link
A brilliant new-look Mirror website was launched early this morning ... and then, as is traditional in digital publishing, promptly crashed.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 09:53 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
This is going well:
http://i.imgur.com/qds7K.png
― James Mitchell, Monday, 20 February 2012 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
first response hall of fame
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 February 2012 07:43 (twelve years ago) link
Martin Clarke v interesting at Leveson today http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2012/may/09/martin-clarke-witness-statement-leveson-inquiry
― stet, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
NOLA Times-Pic dropping its printed product back to 3x/week, reportedly cutting newsroom staff by 1/3.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Thursday, 24 May 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/new-orleans-times-picayune-to-cut-staff-and-cease-daily-newspape/?hp
That's sad
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
Advance also said Thursday that three major daily newspapers that it owns in Alabama will switch to publishing three days a week as part of a new focus on online news: The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and the Press-Register of Mobile.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g-VEJIvNQKJKPe6Pz4fWFot76Iyw?docId=ecc3151fb82e44dd98446f33dd4258c7
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Meanwhile, Warren Buffett is buying newspapers:
Buffett is adding to Berkshire’s newspaper holdings with the $142 million deal announced May 17 for Media General Inc. (MEG) publications including the Richmond Times-Dispatch of Virginia. The billionaire, who bought the Buffalo News in 1977 and said in 2009 that newspapers have the potential for unending losses, is now betting that papers with a community focus can profit as they change their models.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/buffett-says-free-news-unsustainable-may-add-more-papers.html
― o. nate, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
I think he's right that there's still a void to fill in terms of local/community information, and probably a way to make money off this, but I'm not clear on how he thinks existing newspapers are going to fill that void without going bankrupt.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm not sure if he knows either.
...Buffett wrote in a letter to editors and publishers of Berkshire’s daily newspapers. "We want your best thinking as we work out the blend of digital and print that will attract both the audience and the revenue we need."
― o. nate, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
I thought AOL's "Patch" was a perhaps good idea that was ATROCIOUSLY executed. But something like that could work maybe, a sort of national network of local news sites, taking advantage of certain scalable aspects while keeping the content completely local and locally reported.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
patch may be good in theory except for the part where huffpo hired a bunch of 23 year olds right out of college to run the sites and expected them to turn a profit immediately
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
I think a lot of Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods would support more extensive and better quality local coverage, just for example. The big dailies mostly stick to the *trendy* angles on brooklyn and all but ignore queens. No great source for real local news. The Brooklyn Paper seems spotty. Highly literate and interested populace, big city.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
patch is terrible in theory too, because the economics just don't work. there's no way to make it add up.
well, it could plausibly work in major cities, everything after that, forget it.
― stet, Thursday, 24 May 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://blog.scrapperduncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Rupert_Murdoch.jpg
― piscesx, Friday, 25 May 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/175122/will-new-orleanians-follow-the-times-picayune-online-after-it-cuts-back-on-print/
analysis--uh maybe
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 May 2012 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
Dead newspapers, dead Middle American democracy
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/11/dead_newspapers_kill_democracy_dead/singleton/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 June 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2012/06/times-picayune_employees_to_le.html#incart_river
They just canned a bunch of the staff
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/brett-anderson-new-orleans-food-writer-is-laid-off/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
times-picayune pretended the BP oil spill didn't happen until the national media picked it up. seriously. there was a tiny story on the rig explosion and then nothing for like two weeks. in a town/state utterly subject to the sordid whims of energy companies. weird huh.
i know i should be all wringing my hands on the decline of professional journalism or something but if the t-p is an example of modern american newspaperdom just let the whole thing die.
― adam, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, AEI link, but:
http://www.aei-ideas.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/newspaperads-600x413.jpg
The blue line in the chart above displays total annual print newspaper advertising revenue (for the categories national, retail and classified) based on actual annual data from 1950 to 2011, and estimated annual revenue for 2012 using quarterly data through the second quarter of this year, from the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). The advertising revenues have been adjusted for inflation, and appear in the chart as millions of constant 2012 dollars. Estimated print advertising revenues of $19.0 billion in 2012 will be the lowest annual amount spent on print newspaper advertising since the NAA started tracking ad revenue in 1950.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
Oof.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
Surprising that they were doing so well in 1999.
― get you ass to mahs (abanana), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
2005 as the start of the steep decline sounds right.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
1999 was right before things really hit an infrastructure tipping point in terms of the Net as high speed delivery, IIRC.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
I've mentioned this on other threads, but an indispensible site for following industry triage/amputation/death/autopsy: http://jimromenesko.com/
― Irwin Dante's Towering Inferno (WmC), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
Innovative approach from the Irish newspaper industry: demand money from people who link to your content.
http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2012/12/30/2012-the-year-irish-newspapers-tried-to-destroy-the-web/
― the definite listicle (seandalai), Thursday, 3 January 2013 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ
"We're probably not going to lose a lot, but we aren't going to make much either."
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 10 January 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
My local daily newspaper, The Oregonian, just announced that it will soon curtail home delivery to its subscribers to 4 days a week. Oh, it will continue to print daily editions. It just will refuse to home deliver these printed editions 3 days a week. Lucky subscribers will, however, be treated to full access to the paper's website, while non-subscribers will be given limited access and told to fuck off.
At the same time the publisher announced that the paper will degrade the quality of its product by making even more layoffs to its staff than the massive layoffs already made in prior years, which sure as shit means the website won't have many resources behind it, and the paper will shrink even more.
No reductions in retail cost were announced to accompany these reductions in service and quality. As a longtime subscriber I'm not very impressed with this strategy.
― Aimless, Saturday, 22 June 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
http://jimromenesko.com/2013/08/03/red-sox-owner-john-henry-agrees-to-buy-boston-globe-for-70-million/
NYT buys for $1.1 billion, sells 20 years later for $70 million. Ch-ching!
― things are going to get better or worse (WilliamC), Saturday, 3 August 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
Meet your new Washington Post owner!
https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1563281408/amzn_fb-tw_Icon-global.png
More accurately Bezos himself but anyway.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 August 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Apparently he cashed out a load of stock the other day
https://twitter.com/tcarmody/status/363444171601747968
And there you go.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 August 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
Purchase price $250 million.
lol for a min i thought robin was rich
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 5 August 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
holy shit
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 5 August 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
john henry of course also owns Liverpool FC
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 5 August 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
The paper that broke Watergate is worth exactly 1/4 as much as the app that makes your iphone photos look like bad early 80s snapshots. #trenchantsocialcommentary
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Monday, 5 August 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
This impenetrable drivel from Montgomery would be infuriating if it wasn't so depressing.http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/who-needs-sub-editors-read-david-montgomerys-latest-unsubbed-2200-word-missive-future-local
― stet, Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
I honestly don't even understand what he's talking about.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link
I mean the fact that he uses the phrase "one-stop shop for content" shows he doesn't have the faintest conception of how people actually consume digital media, even at local level.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:40 (ten years ago) link
tl, dr
― http://i26.tinypic.com/2udyu5e.jpg (stevie), Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
My old paper, where I spent 7 great years, is no more.
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/275033/another-alt-weekly-folds/
(As noted there, the SFBG also folded this week.)
Not surprising, but sad. Especially because the paper was actually making a small profit.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 16 October 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/new-media-2/
Circa’s entire operation is oriented around mobile speed—both in terms of how long it will take you to consume a story and how quickly it can pump one out and send it wide. Instead of drawn-out articles—and in Circa’s world, seven paragraphs is long—it publishes something it calls points: bursts of facts written in such a way as to be independent of what comes before or after and that can be rearranged based on what someone has previously seen. When readers come to a story for the first time, they may need a bunch of bursts. But as they follow its development, they’ll probably only want to see the latest. This means that, unlike most breaking-news operations, Circa doesn’t have to report and write a complete story before it publishes. It can simply send out the components that it has at the time, then update later with further information.
― j., Friday, 19 December 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
Bloomberg has been doing that (and better) since the 80s
― stet, Friday, 19 December 2014 11:09 (nine years ago) link