Stories longer than 2,000 words down 86 percent at the LAT since 2003, 50 percent at WaPo, etc. By Dean Starkman Source: cjr.org No one equates story-length with quality. Let’s start with that concession. But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you consider what it takes to explain complex problems, like say, the financial crisis, to the broader public. Or when you consider …
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Source: kamloopsnews.ca The death of newspapers has been greatly exaggerated, Rotarians heard Monday. Peter Kvarnstrom, chairman of the Canadian Newspapers Association board, told a luncheon of the Rotary Club of Kamloops that the print medium is far from extinction. Kvarnstrom also serves as president of B.C. community media for Glacier Media Group, the B.C.-based publisher of The Daily News and 80 …
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Source: reuters.com Tue Nov 6, 2012 3:25pm EST Overview — We are lowering our long-term corporate credit rating on Victoria, B.C.-based Black Press Ltd. to ‘B-‘ from ‘B’ based on our view of the company’s ongoing organic revenue and profit declines, as well as refinancing risk. — At the same time, we are revising our recovery rating on the company’s senior …
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Source: niemanlab.org After being sold over the summer, the newspaper is hiring about 50 editorial staffers and adding new print sections — because print’s where the money is. Why did the Orange County Register send reporters and photogs to cover 40 — yes, four-zero, 40 — high-school sporting events in one weekend? No, it’s not another news mob. Nor is it a one-time thing. At …
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Newspaper companies are doing just fine, thanks. Journalists, not so much. Source: thetyee.ca Toronto journalism nerds are flocking to a sold-out event this evening, provocatively titled “Yes, Genius, the Sky Is Falling. So Now What?” I have thus been provoked to pen… er, pixel this contrarian view. The event features David Carr, media critic for the New York Times, who was a key …
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Source: blogs.vancouversun.com Newspaper publisher David Black on Friday announced plans to promote a “world state” $13 billion oil refinery in Kitimat to take advantage of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline. On Thursday in advance of the story I had an interview with him for a profile that was to run simultaneously to Gordon Hoekstra’s news report on the announcement. For reasons of length and subject I didn’t include some quite …
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Source: theglobeandmail.com Conrad Black and Warren Buffett have something in common – they both think newspapers are undervalued. As newspapers across North America frantically build paywalls to charge their online customers and cut back on their publishing schedules and staff to reduce costs, the former publisher says there’s still value in the industry if it’s run the right way. read …
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Source: editorandpublisher.com by: Jeff Fleming Local news continues to be the mainstay when it comes to solving newspapers’ 21st century challenges. The newest report by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and Internet & American Life Project revealed that “72 percent of adults are quite attached to following local news and information, and local newspapers are by far the …
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Source: theglobeandmail.com Hey, did you guys see that video of the drunk guy singing Bohemian Rhapsody? How about last weekend’s punch-up between Justin Trudeau and Patrick Brazeau? Awesome, right? Though, true, not as awesome as those news stories about pink slime in fast food and crushed bugs in frappuccinos. In the cultural marketplace that assigns high values to buzzy ephemera through traffic …
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Source: theglobeandmail.com Canadian newspaper publishers scrambling to get their news online face a stark reality – more than half of their readers still rely on printing presses and newsprint for their daily news hit. A study by the Newspaper Audience Databank examined stats from 62 Canadian weekly and daily newspapers and found that 58 per cent of readers only read print …
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