December 12th, 2008
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In a week when Pulitzer Prize expanded its eligibility to include online only news websites, Tribune Co (which owns Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times) filed for bankruptcy, and The New York Times Company announced its plans to borrow up to $225 million against its mid-Manhattan headquarters building to ease a potential cash flow squeeze, it isn’t surprising to see discussions about the death of the newspaper.
(Update: Ashish Sinha writes that the Indian newspapers are also in trouble.)
Clay Shirky at Boing Boing blames the newspapers for not seeing the writing on the wall –
By the turn of the century, anyone who didn’t understand that the business model for newspapers was a wasting asset was caught up in nothing other than willful ignorance, so secure in their faith in the permanence of their business that they assumed that those glaciers would politely swerve at the last minute, which minute is looking increasingly like now.
Virginia Heffernan in NYT asks journalists to embrace the change –
December 12th, 2008 |
Posted in Internet, Media
| Tagged with Chicago Tribune, Clay Shirky, Jeff-Jarvis, Los Angeles Times, Mitch Joel, New-York-Times, Newspaper, Pulitzer Prize, Virginia Heffernan |
December 2nd, 2008
I was interviewed by Los Angeles Times last week for a story on the role of citizen journalism in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
Here is the full text of the Los Angeles Times story –
Mumbai news fished from Twitter’s rapids
9:45 AM, December 2, 2008
Grenade attack in Colaba market,” read a Twitter message from a user named Abhishek Baxi on Saturday. Then a few minutes later. “Blast outside Oberoi Hotel in South Mumbai.”
Baxi was one of the first Twitter users to post updates about the attacks in Mumbai. But he was far from the last.
The microblogging medium, along with several other new media platforms, saw its first sustained action in an international crisis. As awareness of the attacks spread, the Twitter throughput soared. Once a way for friends to keep each other updated on daily routines, Twitter is now looking more like a legitimate medium for short bits of information. The problem is there’s just way too much of it.
During the attacks, users from around the world posted tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of short notes, updates, musings and links to the latest information on Mumbai — many, if not most, of the facts coming from mainstream news outlets.
December 2nd, 2008 |
Posted in Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Noteworthy, Social Media
| Tagged with Bombay, Citizen Journalism, Flickr, Los Angeles Times, Media, Mumbai, Social Media, Terrorist Attacks, Twitter |
