Changing face of journalism

real life examples

Philadelphia Daily News – owners filed for bankruptcyMinneapolis Star Tribune filed for Chapter 11Miami Herald – asking for donations from readersDetroit News – strugglingBoston Globe – strugglinget al...

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1883785,00.html?imw=Y

The headlines speak for themselves

• Regional papers are disappearing, becoming web-only, cutting swathes through the hard copy sections they offer – in a fight for survival

http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Hearst-150-year-old-Seattle-P-I-Newspaer-Closing-S_1/2890153

• Go digital, seek buyer or close

• As print advertising vanishes so does profitability

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iyyouBk-R3lV7m8ddfUUpfpW6VcwD9CK2DLO1

• Seeking donations from readers to sustain an online business readership model

http://losangeles.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2009/11/23/daily3.html

• Don’t post anything on a site that you would not feel comfortable about everyone seeing

Even the BBC realises that something seismic is happening and is starting to respond to the changes

http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/bbc-news-appoints-its-first-social-media-editor

• Spot.Us funds investigative journalism via a crowd-sourced model likely to catch on around the world

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jP-sjoFKsedvWfL-ypj63eZBuZyQ

• Niiu is Europe’s first newspaper tailored to readers’ individual wishes

• Will more follow this model?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/business/media/25mag.html?_r=2&ref=media

• Publishing consortium developing an ‘online news stand’

• A kind of ‘iTunes for magazines concept’

http://thenextweb.com/uk/2010/01/07/news-organisation-orders-journalists-install-tweetdeck/?awesm=tnw.to_11VyF&utm_medium=tnw.to-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=tweetmeme

• The big news outfits are forced to adapt

• Instilling a social media mindset into its writers through access to tools they would have banned in the office one year ago

http://www.utalkmarketing.com/pages/Article.aspx?ArticleID=16128&Title=Newspaper_composed_completely_of_blog_content_hits_London

• Citizen journalism writ-large as bloggers and ‘readers’ dictate the content

• Plans are to eventually fund through advertising

http://www.brandrepublic.com/Discipline/Digital/News/950413/Newspaper

• Actively encouraging readers to interact in real time through Google Wave

• Aim is to appeal to younger readers with disposable income