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Melinda Snell

3 Ways Social Media Can Save the Newspaper Industry - Social Media Week - 0 views

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    As the Golden Age of newspapers comes to an end with the sale of the Washington Post to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, social media is no longer a crutch but a force that can transform and potentially save the dying industry.
Andrew VanNess

Media Comparison - 0 views

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    This webpage gives a brief description of a few forms of media, along with the pros and cons to each. In addition to the descriptions, it also provides a graph showing how well each form of media is doing compared to the others.
Jered Wilcox

Media Coalition Endorses Journalist Shield Law - 0 views

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    Caroline Little, chief executive of the Newspaper Association of America, an organization serving as liaison between a coalition of media outlets and Congressional staffs crafting a federal media shield law, praised Thursday's passing in the the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 13-5.
Andrew VanNess

Precursor to Modern Media Hype: The 1830s Penny Press - 1 views

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    This journal article is very descriptive of the turnaround from 6 cent papers to penny papers. It tells the story of Benjamin Day and how he changed past newspapers into the modern, mass media newspapers that we see today (whether print or web). Benjamin Day aimed at a cheaper newspaper with more content for New Yorker's alone, not just businessmen / politicians. In doing so, he also created a business model in which is still being used in some aspects today.
Jered Wilcox

Holes in Media Shield Law Worry Opponents, and Even Some Supporters - 0 views

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    The so-called media shield law approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 12 would likely fail to curtail the Obama administration's most controversial legal offensives against reporters, critics and supporters alike say. Furthermore, it's possible courts could also restrict limited reporter protections if the "Free Flow of Information Act" becomes law.
Jered Wilcox

Senate Revises Media Shield Law for the Better, But It's Still Imperfect - 0 views

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    The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved a new version of the proposed media shield law, forging a compromise on who should be protected from having to reveal their journalistic sources in court. The amended bill, which is now clear to go for a full vote in the Senate, avoids defining who is a "journalist."
Jenna Peterfeso

Technology Industry Extends a Hand to Struggling Print Media - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • the tycoons who have led the digital revolution are giving traditional print outlets a hand.
  • Call it a sense of obligation. Or responsibility. Or maybe there is even a twinge of guilt. Helping print journalism adapt to a changed era is becoming a cause du jour among the technology elite.
  • Google, which has been criticized for profiting from news content created by others, began financing journalism fellowships for eight people this year.
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  • are supporting the press because they value it,
  • The founder of Craigslist, the free listing service that helped ruin newspapers’ classified advertising, helped finance a book on ethics for journalists.
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  • Many critics of the newspaper industry say its predicament is its own fault for allowing upstarts like Craigslist to outflank it with better methods for advertising automobiles, rental apartments and other merchandise.
  • Since then, the search giant has been cozying up to journalists in a growing variety of ways, financing reports on the impact of the Internet on journalism, sponsoring journalism conferences and donating to press advocacy groups.
  • But Esther Wojcicki, a teacher of high school journalism for several decades in Palo Alto, Calif., and the mother-in-law of Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, said the motivations of the tech people supporting the press, many of whom she has spoken to, were more sincere.
Melinda Snell

Media Experts Ponder Future of Newspapers After Washington Post Sale - 1 views

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    Video on the future of newspapers and how they are being saves. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos made news this week following reports that the Internet pioneer had purchased one of the nations top newspapers.
Melinda Snell

The future of newspapers is uncertain; not so the future of journalism - 0 views

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    Arianna Huffington talks about how new technology will play a part in the papers future, but journalism will stay strong since journalists have new ways of gathering more information than in the past
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    As it encapsulates one era that has passed, it also has the potential to expand the era we are in. This combining of the best of traditional media with the potential of digital media represents an opportunity to move from the future of newspapers to the future of journalism - in whatever form it's delivered. After all, despite dire news about the state of the newspaper industry, we are in something of a golden age of journalism for news consumers.
Samantha VanTassel

As Newspapers and Magazines Struggle, Companies in Other Industries Are Hiring Journali... - 0 views

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    How the media business is being transformed and disruptive. How will this new change effect business' revenue and their way of advertisement?
Jered Wilcox

HARPER: Mixed feelings as Congress weighs media shield law - 0 views

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    It took the Senate Judiciary Committee 837 words to define a journalist. That's nearly 20 times as long as the First Amendment. The definition has become part of the Free Flow of Information Act of 2013, which passed the committee last week by a vote of 13-5.
Andrew VanNess

Media in the 1930's - 2 views

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    This website shows how the newspaper industry was effected by the Great Depression in the 1930's. Accordingly, the newspaper industries profits were halved, while the radio industry doubled profits.
Melinda Snell

Newspapers have a positive future, no matter the platform - 0 views

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    WHEN Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post early last month for $250m, the question everyone wanted the answer to was, why would a new media guy invest in old media?
John Anderl

SXSWi director Hugh Forrest on journalism's social media challenge | Poynter. - 0 views

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    If news papers and newsrooms die off... here is one of the major issue in the present and future of news
Jenna Peterfeso

A Bright Future for Newspapers  | American Journalism Review - 0 views

  • If present readership trends continue indefinitely, says the University of North Carolina professor, the last daily newspaper reader will check out in 2044. October 2044, to be exact.
  • Compared with the rest of the media industry, newspapers are doing no worse, and in some respects quite a bit better, than the competition, including the Internet.
  • The major fear in the newspaper industry is that today's young people won't grow into the next generation of readers.
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  • Newsgathering power.
  • Monopoly status.
  • So how do newspapers fit into this dynamic cosmos? Nicely, I'd say. Consider just a few unique competitive advantages that newspapers (still) enjoy:
  • Localism.
  • The best customers.
  • Lots of attention.
  • Brand-name recognition.
  • Historic profitability.
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    An optimistic article about the future of newspapers, including a list of competitive advantages that the newspaper industry still has. 
Jenna Peterfeso

Newspaper Business Model: Unsustainable in Any Form | Adweek - 0 views

  • Most media gurus agree that the paper-and-ink newspaper is on the decline and will eventually become a relic.
  • If a market for news content still exists, it’s believed, newspaper organizations will just have to adapt their methods of delivery.
  • The rationale: people have to get their news from somewhere, right?
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  • The newspaper business model is simply not flexible enough to undergo such a dramatic transformation—especially given the increasingly competitive online news industry.
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    An article by Jeff Mascot who believes there is no possible way for the newspaper industry to survive. 
Andrew VanNess

Newspapers: By the Numbers - 0 views

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    This article from State of the Media gives many different statistics about how the newspaper industry is holding up nowadays. The majority of these statistics are graphs showing how advertisement revenue is increasing and decreasing based upon it being online / print. Most of this information is from 1990 to present day.
Jered Wilcox

protecting confidential sources and the public's right to know - 0 views

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    The Newspaper Association of America applauds the Senate Judiciary Committee for passing this shield law,
Jered Wilcox

Our Future Is Digital': Don Graham Reflects on Washington Post's Turning Point - 0 views

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    The purchase of The Washington Post by Internet mogul Jeff Bezos for $250 million will end nearly eight decades of that newspaper's ownership by the Graham family
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