The conventional wisdom is that audiences, and young audiences in particular, are more or less giving up on traditional media as news sources nowadays and instead flocking to the Internet and alternative news sources such as blogs, forums, wikis, etc.
This conventional wisdom is rarely backed up by evidence - any evidence. In their recent […]
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Today, David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief of Reuters, spoke at the Institute today on the subject of journalism in an age of innovation. Insights into this level of news organization management are always fascinating - Schlesinger spoke eloquently about the need to for journalism to re-invent itself in the face of new trends like citizen journalism, online […]
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One of the most interesting papers in my group at the NordMedia conference (see previous post) was on “Leadership in successful newspaper companies” by Monika Djerf-Pierre (I would link, but it turns out that you can’t link directly to her home page at JMG, Göteborgs universitet).
Despite the business school-sounding title, this paper is in fact […]
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About ten years ago, when newspapers, TV channels and other news organizations started to go online in earnest, people started asking the question: Do we really need journalists? Most readers of this blog will probably be familiar with the context of the question – anyone can write and post online these days, who is a […]
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