Well, the news part of newspaper anyway. Back in December, I wrote about the huge competition news services face from a folksonomic system of news gethering and editing. What are newspapers left with when the web will do it in a more efficient and personalised way? Maybe they’ll become opinion mags like the Economist… or maybe each paper will become just another blog. Anyway, a couple of items to fuel the debate:
The Chicago Tribune’s City News Service, which trained some of the
country’s most celebrated writers and provided the hard-bitten,
hard-drinking model for the play and film, The Front Page, has filed
its last bulletin. (from The Guardian)
Reporters say that these developments are forcing them to change how
they do their jobs; some are asking themselves if they can justify how
they are filtering information. "We’ve got to be more transparent about
the news-gathering process," said Craig Crawford, a columnist for
Congressional Quarterly and author of "Attack the Messenger: How
Politicians Turn You Against the Media." "We’ve pretended to be like
priests turning water to wine, like it’s a secret process. Those days
are gone." (from The New York Times)
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Besides the information-management issues newspapers try to get into other things like publishing books, dvd and CD serials. At least that’s what the folks at Germany’s biggest daily newspaper, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung does. After releasing a huge Best Books of All Time Series, they did the Best Films Of All time (according to the newspapers Editors of course!), most important music from each year going back 60 years in music history, recently they added a retro on football championships and brand new is their crime novels series.
They are doing a really good job. Their seletion is quite fine and the pricing is more than affordable.
http://sz-mediathek.sueddeutsche.de
Back to the information filtering process. I think it’s quite interesting to look at what the big news agencies like Reuters and AP do with the Net. They have been using the web as another distribution channel for years. but i never used their services directly.
I mean, the opportunity to customize your news and have direct access to different newsfeeds, newsagencies and papers, has been there on the net for years. How come it suddenly is such a big issue?
Probably myYahoo is the only service that kindof picked up this personalnews/Customization thing early enough.
January 4th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Slate’s View: http://www.slate.com/id/2133847/
January 11th, 2006 at 7:41 am
the nyt on how did papers get in this mess:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/business/yourmoney/01frenzy.html?ex=1317355200&en=cceba868448cfd69&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:36 pm