"Younger audiences, it turns out, are interested in news. But they want it from new platforms that can deliver it in new ways and on the consumers’ new terms."That sounds like opportunity knocking to me. Every year, the Project for Excellence in Journalism completes a...
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Robert Niles nails it in his recent OJR piece on how to keep your journalism job. Niles is exactly right when he says that readers want reporters who follow the "...facts where they lead, instead of stopping short out of fear that someone doesn't like that." As one who has a...
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Adrian Holovoty combines the talents of a web geek with the sensibilities of a newsman. How often has he said, "journalism is broken," but unlike gloom and doomers, Adrian offers simple but elegant ways to fix the news. His chicagocrime.org let's the user "view" crime stats...
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Michael Wolff captures the future of news, or at least one version in his Vanity Fair piece, Is This the End of News? "The news is technologically obsolete—information envelops us, competing for our attention, hence fewer and fewer people (read: younger people) feel any...
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"Four out of five or more adults in all seven countries say it is important for newspapers to have roles such as providing news and information about evens in their region, country and the world. Three-quarters or more in each of the countries surveyed believe an important...
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