Topic: Newspaper Industry

Tired of Waiting to Move Ahead
With plenty of ideas about how to move journalism into its digital time, a journalist tries to push the industry past its natural inclination to ‘voice the “no ways.”’
By Geneva Overholser

Newspapers and Their Quest for the Holy Grail
Putting the Web first might be ‘the most difficult transformation in our mindset, but we should go ahead and flip our world on its head.’
By Michael Riley

Newspapers Have Met Their Enemy Within
‘The question is not whether the newspaper is dead, but whether it can be rescued from unreasonable demands.’
By Watson Sims

Managing the Transparent Newsroom
By Steven A. Smith

Can the Newspaper Industry Stare Disruption in the Face?
‘Lessons learned from past failures can help to ensure future triumphs.’
By Scott D. Anthony and Clark G. Gilbert

Looking Past the Rush Into Convergence
As technology drives big newsroom changes, what will happen to journalism?
By Edward Wasserman

Confronting the Dual Challenge of Print and Electronic News
‘To make best use of both editions, we need to be increasingly disciplined about what goes where.’
By Paul E. Steiger

Evolving Definitions of News
‘Journalists may have thought it was necessary to set the old school aside to accommodate the new realities, but with the new realities there is no new ethic.’
By Tom Bettag

When Walls Come Tumbling Down
The Associated Press is making ‘radical adjustments’ to its news reports and business strategies in response to the Web.
By Jim Kennedy

Toward a New Journalism With Verification
‘This journalism must recognize that the distribution, the organization, and the sources of our work must change.’
By Bill Kovach

The Challenge of Community Building
Knight Foundation asks whether the community role newspapers play can be replicated by new media and offers to support those who show it can.
By Gary Kebbel

Journalism and Citizenship: Making the Connection
‘Not only do citizens benefit from good journalism, but also journalism gets a boost from having engaged, news-hungry citizens.’
By David T.Z. Mindich

No Time Left for Reluctant Transformers
‘Digitally based consumption by a fragmented audience requires new and sophisticated distribution mechanics … smartly connect[ing] consumers to available, relevant content in virtually unlimited ways.’
By Jim Kennedy

Creating a New Platform to Support Reporting
‘My sole and motivating mission is to figure out how reporting can thrive as we witness the death of the institutional model that traditionally supported it.’
By David Cohn

To Prepare for the Future, Skip the Present
‘… today’s obsession with saving newspapers has meant that, for the most part, media companies have failed to plan adequately for tomorrow’s digital future.’
By Edward Roussel

Journalism as a Conversation
‘Today digital publishing is practiced by the masses, and it’s inseparable from the practice of journalism.’
By Katie King

A Newsroom’s Fortress Walls Collapse
At The Spokesman-Review, editors and reporters explain ‘what we do and why’ and involve ‘citizens, at some level, in news planning and decision-making.’
By Steven A. Smith

The Quickening Pace of Change
By Ellen Foley

Inviting Readers Into the Editorial Process
In online polling about story selection, editors at the Wisconsin State Journal learn that ‘the readers who vote consistently do choose weighty stories.’
By Ellen Foley

Meshing Purpose With Product
Heeding the warning against forcing ‘existing quality standards into new technology,’ a journalist is cautiously optimistic about the digital future.
By Philip Meyer

An Open Letter From Knight Ridder Alumni
By 92 journalists who have worked for Knight Ridder newspapers

A Newspaper's Redesign Signals Its Renewal
‘… newspapers have enormous strengths to rely on — and that is where we need to concentrate.’
By Anders Gyllenhaal and Monica Moses

Risk-Adverse Newspapers Won't Cross the Digital Divide
‘Newspapers lacked the external vision necessary to see the vast range of opportunities created by the Internet.’
By Chris Cobler

Taking the Big Gulp
‘The Web is its own medium with its own characteristics. It is not newspapers. It is not TV news. It is not radio.’
By Jane Ellen Stevens

Must-Read Books
By Jane Ellen Stevens

Reliable News: Errors Aren’t Part of the Equation
In the transition to digital journalism, accuracy—as an indicator of quality—must maintain its place at the top of the list of essential ingredients.
By Craig Silverman

Long-Form Multimedia Journalism: Quality Is the Key Ingredient
As a producer of social documentary projects—viewed on digital platforms—Brian Storm talks about the excitement of doing journalism in this way, at this time.
By Brian Storm

Technology Diminishes Journalists’ Value
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If Murder Is Metaphor
Novels, at times, speak to truth in ways we, as journalists, can find hard to do.
By Steven A. Smith

Dealing With Disruption
As digital media gets ‘better, faster and cheaper. … [there is] little time for long-established human institutions like journalism to adapt.’
By Jon Palfreman

Blogs, Tweets, Social Media, and the News Business
‘Merely because a technology is popular with some users and journalists does not mean that its use will be beneficial to the news enterprise as a whole.’
By Robert G. Picard

Capital Crisis in the Profitable Newspaper Industry
Solving this ‘will call upon levels of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship infrequently found in newspapers in recent years.’
By Robert G. Picard

Media Users, Media Creators: Principles of Active Engagement
In transforming ‘ourselves from passive consumers of media into active users … we’ll have to instill throughout our society principles that add up to critical thinking and honorable behavior.’
By Dan Gillmor