The Newspaper Disease
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under journalism
Roger Black on The Newspaper Disease:
As with the federal government, it won’t help to keep doing more of the things that aren’t working. It won’t work to keep cheapening the product. To use Gordon Bethune’s line about a similar problem in the airline business: “You can take so much cheese off the pizza that nobody will eat it.”
Read the rest of the article here.
Tags: journalism, newspapers, quotes, state of newspapers
The Death of the Newspaper. (gulp)
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under journalism
Before coming to grad school I thought newspapers were the only home for me and the only place I’d want to be.
I’m not so sure about that anymore. More and more I’m starting to think of life outside of newspapers, which feels weird sad to say.
I have a lot of thoughts on this, but I need to get some photos off to the big brown box from a shoot today.
Fading to Black and Praying for Papers are two blogs that look at the state of (sad)affairs in newspapers today.
From The New Yorker article Out of Print:
Only nineteen per cent of Americans between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four claim even to look at a daily newspaper. The average age of the American newspaper reader is fifty-five and rising.
Traditional media just need to realize that the online world isn’t the enemy. In fact, it’s the thing that will save them, if they fully embrace it.
Thanks Marcus Yam and APAD
At the Kentucky Derby last weekend.
Tags: journalism, newspapers, state of newspapers
