Philip Walzer reports:
The Virginian-Pilot won’t be sold. At least for now.
The owner of The Pilot, Landmark Media Enterprises LLC, announced Tuesday that it had taken the newspaper and its affiliates off the market, citing the credit crunch.
Landmark, however, intends to resume the sale process for The Virginian-Pilot Media Cos. when the economy improves, said Richard [...]
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Steve Outing is right with these 11 ways to save print newspapers:
1. Issue an edict: Digital is first!
2. Consolidate print and online editing functions.
3. Print edition: Don’t bother chasing young people.
4. Print edition: Focus on the core demographic.
5. Guide older print loyalists to a life online.
6. Reduce the number of print editions.
7. Online: Broaden definition [...]
Jon Friedman:
“Rupert Murdoch is always at war,” Wolff told me when we discussed his book a few weeks ago at Dow Jones headquarters in lower Manhattan. “That’s what you do in the newspaper business.”
“The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch” hit stores today, but you will not get too [...]
Today’s most e-mailed piece from The New York Times edition is a great Maureen Dowd column about the Web site Pasadena Now.
James Macpherson is the man behind this news experiment.
“Many newspapers are dead men walking. They’re going to be replaced by smaller, nimbler, multiple Internet-centric kinds of things such as what I’m pioneering.”
Well, if this the [...]
Nine-and-a-half hours after the terror strike, the Indian “fast-reponse” NSG Commandos arrived in Mumbai.
A world record.
Here is the amazing timing:
9:30 p.m. Wednesday: The terrorists strike Mumbai. Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is in Kerala. He is briefed about the attack. By the time he grasps the enormity of the situation, 90 minutes have gone by.
11 p.m.: [...]
The chaotic coverage by the Indian press of the Mumbai tragedy is amazing.
And The Times of India again leads the lack of accuracy.
The main story on today’s homepage includes conflicting numbers about something that is just a fact.
But fact checking must be too much to ask for a newspaper that many consider to be the best paper [...]
Many years ago, a BBC journalist told me that a camera just rolling doesn’t produce real news.
Journalism requires active reporting.
Not just cameras recording.
The conflicting reports from Mumbai are the result of this passive TV coverage.
So we are waiting …
Waiting for real reporting.
Waiting for real news.
Waiting for real journalism.
(Picture by Ritam Banerjee/Getty Images)
Picture by Reuters.
Today’s Wall Street Journal is a good example of how the financial newspaper is changing under Rupert Murdoch.
The front page displays a six-column headline.
The old design is gone.
The new Wall Street Journal is becoming a direct competitor of The New York Times.
Bolder.
Aggressive.
Global.
Again, after a non-stop TV crazy coverage, people are buying more newspapers than ever in Mumbai.
(Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP)
If you want to test the quality of your local newspaper, just look at today’s front page.
Here in the U.S., the Thanksgiving Day celebration dominates many front pages, but still there are newspapers that realized the Mumbai news deserved premium space.
It was not the norm, though.
Look at this one from Michigan!
Fortunately there were many other [...]
Go to The Times of India’s really badly designed Web site for a Photogallery link (marked in yellow by me) under a dramatic picture of one of the hotels attacked by terrorists in Mumbai yesterday.
Well, when you click here expecting to see more pictures of the terrorist events, what you get is this: girls, girls, girls.
What chaos.
What a [...]
What chaotic news coverage!
Inside and outside of India.
India must have a very healthy newspaper industry, but this doesn’t mean that the news coverage has been good.
Just go to any of the leading news Web sites to see that they don’t have any clue about what happened, what’s going on and what is going to happen [...]
Rupert Murdoch makes the point:
“I believe that newspapers will reach new heights. In the 21st century, people are hungrier for information than ever before. And they have more sources of information than ever before….Amid these many diverse and competing voices, readers want what they’ve always wanted: a source they can trust. That has always been [...]
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