Archive for January, 2010
Focus on journalism, not business models
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
The full text of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger’s Hugh Cudlipp lecture.
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With Apple tablet, print media hope for payday
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
With the widely anticipated introduction of a tablet computer at an event here on Wednesday morning, Apple may be giving the media industry a kind of time machine — a …
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Why we need to subsidize journalism
Monday, January 25th, 2010
An Exclusive Interview with Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols. Robert W. McChesney teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. John Nichols is the Washington correspondent …
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Nonprofit aims to cover local politics
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Just in time for a meaty year in Connecticut politics and government, a nonprofit news site launches Monday with an online resource its editor touts as “the most comprehensive guide …
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Media begin to leave Haiti
Monday, January 25th, 2010
The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper knows the 24-hour news cycle as well as anyone, and last week, he lamented that the survivors of the Haiti earthquake would soon fall victim …
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Another U.S. newspaper chain trips on debt
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
The owner of The Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News and 52 other daily newspapers filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, joining the procession of publishers choking on too much debt.
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State of the union at Canwest
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
“What’s going to happen next?” remains the hottest topic of conversation among Canwest employees two weeks after the company’s newspaper division entered creditor protection.
Here’s what we do know:
The big Canadian …
The ethical case for non-profit papers
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
These are tough times for nonprofit institutions. So on Saturday I go to the art museum, and what do I find? Every fourth painting on the wall has been replaced …
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40 Guardian editorial staff take voluntary redundancy
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Around 40 editorial staff have accepted voluntary redundancy as part of an ongoing headcount reduction at Guardian News & Media to help ease its £100,000 a day losses. In November …
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‘This is about creating jobs for journalists’
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
San Francisco businessman Warren Hellman’s foundation seeded the Bay Area News Project with $5 million in funding. Now it’s up to Lisa Frazier and Jonathan Weber to make it grow. …
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