David Ryfe wrote the book "Can Journalism Survive? Inside Look at American Newsrooms." The site basically argues his opinions on how he thinks journalism is not a dying career.
This website gives a brief overview of how yellow journalism evolved and describes the battle between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hears. It also explains what yellow journalism is in more detail.
In 2008, newspapers made $37.848 billion. Yes, they made a full $10 billion more last year than they did this year, a staggering drop of 27.2%. Nearly all of that loss was from print:
In 2000, newspapers peaked at $48.67 billion in revenue. This came entirely from print
The old newspaper model is simply not going to be market-viable as we head deeper in the digital age
Statistics on the present state of newspapers. A chart from the Newspaper Association of America showing advertising expenditures. "Journalism is not dead, it is just evolving."
Statistics on the present state of newspapers. A chart from the Newspaper Association of America showing advertising expenditures. "Journalism is not dead, it is just evolving."
Its advertising and circulation are being drained away by the Internet, and its owners seem stricken by a failure of the entrepreneurial imagination needed to prosper in the electronic age.
Surveys showing that more and more young people get their news from television and computers
but it was the disclosure in May that the Bancroft family, which controls The Wall Street Journal, might be ready to sell him their paper for five billion dollars that really struck at journalism’s soul.
. Still, it is on the ownership and management side that the gravest problems exis
A long article about the present state of newspapers. Includes information about selling the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch. Includes names of many journalists that may be important.
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.
The founder of Craigslist, the free listing service that helped ruin newspapers’ classified advertising, helped finance a book on ethics for journalists.
has been crit
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.
This article describes multiple opinions about what the main difference between blogging and journalism. With the rise of online newspaper websites, the argument over blogging vs. journalism is becoming a big role in the newspaper industry.
Enter the Internet news voucher. Under our proposal, each news article on the web will end by asking readers whether it contributed to their political understanding. If so, they can click the yes-box, and send the message to a National Endowment for Journalism -- which would obtain an annual appropriation from the government. This money would be distributed to news organizations on the basis of a strict mathematical formula: the more clicks, the bigger the check from the Endowment.
a news organization must have a group of editors and fact-checkers committed to journalistic integrity.
Although the Internet may have destroyed the newspaper's old business model, we can use it to create a new decentralized system that may generate an even more vibrant marketplace of ideas for the twenty-first century.
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
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.
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
This article gives a history rundown of the first African American newspaper. It goes through who was involved and what the purpose of the paper was for. This paper gave a voice for the African American people.
Another topic about what the difference between blogging and journalism is. While still an opinion, this discussion includes multiple viewpoints, including some professional journalists viewpoints.