Walt Mossberg: How True/Slant Revolutionizes News
October 2, 2009 at 7:00 am in Innovation by Chris O'Brien
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- MediaShift Idea Lab . What the Spot.Us Community Thinks of Objectivity | PBSwww.pbs.orgShare on:
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- Jay Rosen on the media: Seven questions for Jay Rosen | The Economistwww.economist.comChris O'Brien says: Jay Rosen says: "The cost of changing settled routines seems too high, but the cost of not changing is, in the long term, even higher. A good example is the predicament of the newspaper press: the print edition provides most of the revenues, but it cannot provide a future. I know of no evidence to show that young people are picking up the print habit. So if the cost of abandoning print is too high, the cost of sticking with it may be even higher, though slower to reveal itself. That's a problem."Share on:
- The Ultimate Guide: How Media Companies Should Offer Daily Deals « Yipit Blogblog.yipit.comChris O'Brien says: Vinicius Vacanti writes: "If you think about what makes Groupon truly successful you come across two things: they have 9 million people on their email list and their users trust Groupon to recommend great deals."Share on:
- The Future of News: Data Point of One: What Happens When Readers Only Want *Raw* News?future-of-news.blogspot.comChris O'Brien says: E.B. Boyd writes: "At dinner last night, a friend told me he has no interest in picking up a newspaper because the information in it is "outdated" and "fabricated." Interesting. So what does that mean for the journalism industry?"Share on:
- MediaShift . While Others Shrink, KQED Expands Cross-Platform News | PBSwww.pbs.orgChris O'Brien says: Katie Donnelly writes: "Last month, KQED News in San Francisco dramatically expanded the scope of its news coverage with a new website, an increase from six to 16 local radio newscasts and the addition of eight news staffers, including six producers/reporters, a developer and a social media specialist. Its expansion will continue over the next several months (look for a new news blog in the next couple of months)."Share on:
- Reflections of a Newsosaur: Yahoo readies San Francisco news sitenewsosaur.blogspot.comChris O'Brien says: Alan Mutter writes: "Though hundreds of news shops of every shape and size already cover Northern California, Yahoo will be an instantly formidable competitor because of its vast market reach."Share on:
- InvestigateWest: Lessons from the first year | Knight Digital Media Centerwww.knightdigitalmediacenter.orgChris O'Brien says: Rita Hibbard writes: "Doing good work isn’t enough to save journalism. Fighting to preserve the legacy isn’t the place you want to be. I knew that going into the launch of InvestigateWest just over a year ago, hard lessons learned living through the closure of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a newspaper with a long history of strong local coverage and investigative journalism."Share on:
- Reflections of a Newsosaur: Flagship newspapers wane in audience mixnewsosaur.blogspot.comChris O'Brien says: Alan Mutter writes: "The flagship newspaper produces barely half of the weekday audience delivered by some major metro publishers, according to an analysis of data recently issued by the Audit Bureau of Circulations."Share on: