January 3, 2006
The Death Of The Newspaper
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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