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Archive of posts filed under the journalism category.
Elephant Diaries: The Overhead of Print
Jeff Jarvis, who has (for better or worse) become something of a new media guru stalking the land of the old, caused a bit of a stir in my world when he posted last Saturday on the amazing success of the LA Times news web operation: David Westphal reports an important and historic crossing of …
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Elephant Diaries: The Confusion
There’s a common confusion among “Netizens” about the reason for the mainstream news media’s demise – the notion that newspapers are in decline because they have not done their job of informing the public well enough. Paul Mulshine, reporting from Newark, offers a different explanation: They assume newspapers are going out of business because we …
Elephant Diaries: The Conversation
Ned Resnikoff with a message many of us in old media are good about hearing: The journalist can no longer afford to keep his audience at a comfortable distance, or ignore the work of others covering the same topic.
Elephant Diaries: On Endorsements and Bias
An intriguing analysis by RIccardo Puglisi and James Snyder, published this month in NBER (gated), finds statistical evidence for a correlation between newspapers’ endorsement patterns (R vs. D) and the papers’ news coverage of scandals involving Republican and Democratic politicians: [T]hose with a higher propensity to endorse Democratic candidates in elec tions give significantly more …
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Elephant Diaries: An Alternate Business Model
It is frequently suggested that there are important parallels between the changing business models of the news and music industries, and that there is much we can learn from one another. I am currently brainstorming ways to get someone to pay me to perform journalism in bars.
Elephant Diaries: Information in Meatspace
Bruce Barcott on the loss of newspapers: It matters because papers exist in the physical world, the meatspace with the rest of us, and the fact of their existence, in print on paper, sitting on every corner of downtown Seattle, reminds us that there’s a larger conversation going on around us. She’s worried that the …
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Elephant Diaries: Report from Colorado
Tom Yulsman, from the Center for Environmental Journalism in Boulder, bemoans a life without Rocky Mountain News and, potentialy, the Denver Post? If Scripps cannot find a buyer for the Rocky Mountain News — and no one thinks it will — then the paper will go belly up, leaving the Denver Post as the only …
Elephant Diaries: The Great Paradox
Surowiecki in the New Yorker: The peculiar fact about the current crisis is that even as big papers have become less profitable they’ve arguably become more popular. The blogosphere, much of which piggybacks on traditional journalism’s content, has magnified the reach of newspapers, and although papers now face far more scrutiny, this is a kind …
Elephant Diaries: Science Journalism Edition
Chris Mooney had a nice piece this week on Science Progress about the decline in science specialist journalists at major mainstream media publications. I think Chris nails the problem squarely, but I’d like to elaborate on the implication, because it applies much more broadly. Here’s Chris’s key point: Science journalism, at its best, should also …
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