JCA Fall 2013 Mass Comm-Newspaper

Newspapers discovering new successful business models using innovation, rebranding, web consulting, and generating new revenue channels. 

Newspaper extinction timeline info graphic 

Two pages with a map of the world and when newspapers will become extinct in various places. Also has a flow chart/ graph highlighting key terms about the extinction in the newspaper industry.

While not a particular article, this webpage on Poynter provides multiple accounts for which newspaper companies are laying off workers in the past couple weeks / months. Could be useful in providing statistics for how the newspaper industry is declining.

Another article about the inverted pyramid style of organization. This describes the history of inverted pyramid and how changes to traditional story telling have changed because of it.

This is an article about why the inverted pyramid style of organization is controversial in journalism today. This is a helpful article for understanding how this style of writing developed over the years, and how it is now considered outdated.

An interesting webpage describing a brief history of comic strips in newspapers. The author of the page brings up how characters like Popeye and Tarzan were created through comic strips in newspapers.

This is a timeline of comic strips in newspapers. This is an important piece to the history of newspapers since it accounts for some of the revenue that physical newspapers create.

What makes a blogger a blogger and a journalist a journalist. 

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.

Article from the New York Times talking about how newspapers are quickly running out of time to adapt or make changes for the future.

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.

This website is a glimpse into the future of newspapers. The website suggest 10 factors that are aiding the decline of the newspaper such as; internet, cost, aging audience, etc.

Article listing 1 through 10 the main reasons the newspaper industry is dying. Includes brief descriptions of each

funnys news paper ad video maybe good for one of our videos to share

it an webiste all about investigative journalism good for finding resources

As with anything, there are two sides to every story. Some people think citizen journalism is a great thing! It can be a great tool, and way to promote interactivity between news people and the rest of the community,

video posted on a citizen news site

Proposed legislation by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the so-called "Free Flow of Information Act," which cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 12, would restrict protections afforded to the media under the principle of freedom of the press to salaried journalists, according to ActivistPost.com.

Founded by New York University graduate Phil Groman (who now joins NBC's digital team), theyet-to-launch web service Stringwire lets users stream content from phones. Per the official release from NBC, Stringwire was created as a service for news organizations to request video from a network of verified contributors with connected mobile devices capable of streaming video across the globe. The service is part of NBC News' strategy to create different methods of eyewitness accounts that can be immediately connected to the newsroom and distributed to the public.

That's the second quarter in a row that the NYT has set new lows for digital-subs growth (it added 36,000 in the first quarter), signalling that the slowdown is real and circulation revenue growth is no longer quite enough to offset advertising declines. Revenue was down 1 percent from a year ago.

August. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Phil Bronstein, former executive vice president at the San Francisco Chronicle, talks about the future of digital media. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)

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