From town tabloids to major metropolitan dailies, newspapers seem to be in their last throes. The availability of free and instant news online, the high profit margins demanded by media conglomerates, and the steep declines in advertising revenue have hit newspapers hard. They have been forced to lay off employees, trim their pages, close print operations or — as The Hearst Corp. has threatened to do to the San Francisco Chronicle — shut down completely.
Will a new model or medium rise to do what newspapers have aimed to do for over a century — pursue accuracy and objectivity, doggedly investigate stories, act as a check on power, embody a community’s conversation with itself, and write a first draft of history? Or will the demise of newspapers mean a radical shift in what we know and how we know it? The New America Foundation and Zócalo host a panel-including former Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll, Slate founder Michael Kinsley, and former San Francisco Chronicle executive vice president and editor Phil Bronstein-to discuss the decline of print media and the future of journalism.
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HERE’S JUST A LITTLE ADVENTURE ON THE BEHIND THE SCENES OF HOW NEWSPAPERS ARE DONE AND WHAT MACHINERIES ARE USED. I KNOW I DON’T GO INTO THAT MUCH DETAIL ON WHAT MACHINE IS WHAT OR THE WHOLE PROCESS BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU.
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Episode 26 in a series of short animated political cartoons by award-winning syndicated cartoonist Ted Rall and David Essman
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/22/Traditional_Medias_Future_J_William_Grimes
Media executive J. William Grimes predicts that if newspaper ad revenues fail to match readership levels, daily newspapers will cease to be printed. He argues that the business model is unsustainable because “5% of our time is spent reading newspapers, newspapers are getting 15% of ad revenue.”
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Traditional Media’s Future in an Increasingly Digital World of Unlimited, Ubiquitous Content
Newspaper, magazine and broadcast media continue to lose audience and revenues to new forms of content that sprout up daily in digital forms. With a 45-year career in the media industry, Grimes will highlight important industry trends, examine changing business models, and talk about social, environmental and economic impacts of the changing media landscape.
J. William Grimes is a widely known media professional who has been President/ CEO of four major media companies, including Univision Multimedia Inc, Zenith Media, and ESPN (19811988) where he was the recipient of the USA Today Sports Executive of the Year and the Gallagher Report’s Television Executive of the Year. He is also a former Senior Vice President of CBS. He taught a graduate Media Economics course in the Media Studies and Film Department at The New School in New York and was coordinator of the department’s graduate Media Management Program. He earned his BA from West Virginia University and studied Law at St John’s University.
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CNN’s Don Lemon talked to David Sirota and Leonard Pitts about the decline of the newspaper industry in the United States.
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Clay Shirky describes the changing news landscape that has put accountability journalism at risk, and outlines a “journalistic ecosystem” that is needed to preserve essential watchdog role of the press.
This talk was sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Find links to the summary and transcript of this talk at:
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/news_events/archive/2009/shirky_09-22-09.html
Video by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
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http://www.ted.com Jacek Utko is a little-known newspaper designer whose redesigns not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might.
Also see this exclusive interview with Jacek Utko on the TED Blog: http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/the_fate_of_the.php
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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