Archive for the ‘Newspapers & Social Media’ Category

The Future of Journalism

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January 5th, 2009

Ted Shelton posted an interesting read on his blog today. He is responding to a 12/18/08 post by David Byrne, (yes; that David Byrne), regarding the “failure” of traditional print journalism to successfully navigate new media waters leading to a threat to our democracy. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. As a professor of [...]

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N.Y. Times’ Bill Keller

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December 13th, 2008

Great NPR piece about the future of newspapers with Bill Keller, editor, NYT. The article includes the audio interview with Bill and is revealing. He sees the future of newspapers in digital products serving users in new ways. He also mentions the use of social media by the Obama campaign as a successful method to [...]

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Can Newspapers Survive On Less?

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November 22nd, 2008

A terrific article from Instead by Stewart Pallester today regarding the impact of digital media on traditional media. Some great examples from  Jeffrey Cole, Director of the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School of Communication to support his point that traditional media may never completely disappear, but most will be “smaller [...]

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Changes at Christian Science Monitor

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November 2nd, 2008

Chris O’Brien has an excellent analysis on the debate of online vs print news distribution in his blog nextnewsroom. The discussion surrounds the decision of CSN to scuttle their print edition and focus online on online distribution. But, Chris really nails the bigger issue for newspapers. As he says, “The fundamental problem newspapers have today [...]

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