COVID-19’s Deep Disruption May Have Permanently Altered the Modern Newsroom
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“Deep disruption …” That’s the way Faisal Kim in WNIP describes how COVID-19 reshaped the news publishing industry. And unlike many industries in which the disruptions are likely more short-term, this year may have dealt a deadly blow to the...
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When Their Local Paper Closed, These Journalists Got Busy
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Local news is facing a crisis… at a time when trusted coverage of the events in this country and our world is more critical than ever. Local libraries have been stepping into the breach, with projects like the four-page weekly...
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With Journalism Under Siege, Memberships May be the Answer
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“Subscribers pay their money and get access to a product. But members join the cause and participate because they believe in it.” This succinct definition from Emily Goligoski cuts to the heart of membership-based journalism models. Goligoski is the research...
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Will the News Media Survive 2020?
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Back in 2011, we all witnessed the shift to paywalls by the New York Times, a calculated risk that paid off in the years since. Other publishers followed suit and found willing audiences concerned enough about quality journalism to support paid...
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Journalism in the New Decade and the Return to Reader Revenue
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When the Reuters Institute set out to uncover the key issues facing the news industry, they surveyed 233 senior media executives around the world to identify the most important current trends. Their findings are summarized in the Journalism, Media and...
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A Free Press Is Worth the Cost
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Quality.It’s at the heart and soul of good journalism, and without a strong foundation of quality reporting, there is no trust. Without trust, there is no audience, no subscribers, no reader revenue.This fact – and the realities of news publishing...
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Journalism Will Survive Without Digital Ad Revenue
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“The First Amendment may protect the press from government control, but it does not protect it from powerful corporations.”That’s the assertion of Harley Duncan, editor-in-chief of The Flor-Ala, the student newspaper of the University of North Alabama. The corporations Duncan...
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Are Tech Companies Helping to Save Print Journalism?
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Nobody can deny that the technical revolution has seriously disrupted journalism. The way news is gathered, published and consumed has changed dramatically in just a decade or so. Yet what if I told you that tech companies aren’t always the...
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How the Slow Journalism Movement Embraces Hindsight
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Earlier this summer we introduced our audience to Delayed Gratification, a UK titles that have become a standard bearer for the slow journalism movement. The age of the 24-hour news cycle has turned journalism into a speed race. Scoops and...
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Collaborative Journalism is Good News for Weary Publishers
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It’s not an easy time to be a news publisher. First it was the massive disruption to their business model. Now, it’s increasingly loud rhetoric around “fake news” and the growing disengagement of the reading public. The bottom line: It’s...
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