After letting go of its entire photo staff Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times plans to begin mandatory training on "iPhone photography basics." Media writer Robert Feder referred to the training in a Facebook post, and quotes a memo from Editor Craig Newman: "In the coming days and weeks, we'll be working with all editorial employees to train and outfit you as much as possible to produce the content we need."
This model worked well for a long time. But it has come unstuck in the internet era as readers have shifted their attention to other media, quickly followed by advertisers.
It may be a business, but it also plays an important part in a democracy: holding those in power to account, giving voters the information they need to make choices and making markets more efficient.
Having long made content available free online, news providers are starting to restrict access to some or all of it to paying subscribers.
A decade ago the idea of a paywall appeared to have been widely discredited.
Another option is the “metered paywall”, pioneered by the Financial Times, which lets visitors to its site read ten stories a month before asking them to pay.
Thirty-one people in multiple departments were laid off. The newspaper's new owner has said the goal is less redundancy and better local news coverage.
Kurt Wimmer, counsel for the Newspaper Association of America, talked about the the Free Flow of Information Act of 2013, being sponsored by bipartisan members of Congress, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. The bill would protect journalists from fines and jail time when they refuse to name confidential sources unless federal officials make their case in court
This website shows a few pictures of early American newspaper advertisements. Its interesting to see how far newspapers and ads have come since colonial times. These pics could possibly be used in the past section of our pbworks page.
The billionaire oil moguls Charles and David Koch are pushing ahead with their plans to purchase several news outlets across the United States, according to a detailed report in the New York Times on Sunday.
It would be hard to single out just one mistake from the news industry's fumbled transition to the Internet era. But the most important newspaper publisher in America-Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. of the New York Times-says one stumble sticks out among the rest. "Engineers. That's what we didn't focus on fast enough," Sulzberger says.
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.
Maitrayee Basu reviews the legacy of New Journalism, and sees the signs of postmodern times in its two-pronged assault on literary hierarchy and the ideal of objectivity
Paywall supporters love to point to the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal -- along with claims from various paywall companies that more and more newspapers are moving over to such a model. However, we've been hearing plenty of stories suggesting that for most every newspaper that isn't a major national or international brand, the paywalls are looking like dismal failures
explains how and why the newspaper is the most resourceful and truthful source of information compared to the internet, which half the time is filled with false information.
Has this newspaper changed in your lifetime? Yes, it has. It's changed in the last year alone.
It's evolved many times in its 146-year history, and it will continue to do so as it reflects the makeup of our community.
The mere fact The News-Review has been in existence for 146 years and remains a daily habit for 32,000 readers ought to make you skeptical of reports that say newspapers are dying.
What do newspaper companies like The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO ) , New York Times (NYSE: NYT ) and Gannett (NYSE: GCI ) have in common? Although they are said to be in a dying industry, so far this year all of them have beaten the Standard & Poor's 500 index performance by a wide margin. What is behind the return of newspaper stocks?
Television and newspapers seem to have little in common. The business of flickering screens is thriving while newspapers are shrinking. So Mr Darcey, who took charge in January, is pushing his titles, including the Sun, a populist tabloid, and the Times, a higher-brow paper, to learn lessons from his former industry.
This article is about the history of newspapers in early American times. It has a few pictures of these newspapers, one of which is Public Occurences, Both Foreign and Domestick.