Comments on: Journalists must change thinking to change industry http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/ A veteran journalist blogs about the new media revolution. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Newspapers needs leaders, not managers | Save the Media http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-15396 Newspapers needs leaders, not managers | Save the Media Mon, 18 May 2009 15:41:44 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1263#comment-15396 [...] you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve written before about how I believe newspapers need to change their thinking to solve the problems plaguing our industry. They need to change their thinking so they can [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('15396','Newspapers needs leaders, not managers | Save the Media'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('15396','Newspapers needs leaders, not managers | Save the Media','[...] you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve written before about how I believe newspapers need to change their thinking to solve the problems plaguing our industry. They need to change their thinking so they can [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve written before about how I believe newspapers need to change their thinking to solve the problems plaguing our industry. They need to change their thinking so they can [...]
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]]> By: What Google says newspapers should do | Save the Media http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-14639 What Google says newspapers should do | Save the Media Sat, 09 May 2009 02:04:02 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1263#comment-14639 [...] new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Over the past two weeks, I’ve blogged about Jeff Jarvis’ book, “What Would Google Do?” as has my guest blogger, friend [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14639','What Google says newspapers should do | Save the Media'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14639','What Google says newspapers should do | Save the Media','[...] new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Over the past two weeks, I’ve blogged about Jeff Jarvis’ book, “What Would Google Do?” as has my guest blogger, friend [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Over the past two weeks, I’ve blogged about Jeff Jarvis’ book, “What Would Google Do?” as has my guest blogger, friend [...]
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]]> By: How "What Would Google Do?" relates to newspapers | Save the Media http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-13976 How "What Would Google Do?" relates to newspapers | Save the Media Sun, 03 May 2009 00:47:42 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1263#comment-13976 [...] journalism professor Jeff Jarvis’ book, “What Would Google Do?” which I ended up blogging about last week. Now it’s her turn to interpret what being like Google means for the news [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13976','How \"What Would Google Do?\" relates to newspapers | Save the Media'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13976','How \"What Would Google Do?\" relates to newspapers | Save the Media','[...] journalism professor Jeff Jarvis’ book, “What Would Google Do?” which I ended up blogging about last week. Now it’s her turn to interpret what being like Google means for the news [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] journalism professor Jeff Jarvis’ book, “What Would Google Do?” which I ended up blogging about last week. Now it’s her turn to interpret what being like Google means for the news [...]
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]]> By: hackademic.net — journalism • learning • teaching = journalism education » Journalists must change thinking to change industry | Save the Media http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-13619 hackademic.net — journalism • learning • teaching = journalism education » Journalists must change thinking to change industry | Save the Media Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:08:09 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1263#comment-13619 [...] Read more here [link] Tags:future_of_journalism, hackademic, Journalism, News, Newspapers [...]
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]]> By: Scott Doty http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-13508 Scott Doty Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:46:22 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1263#comment-13508 BTW, another article that notes a particular disconnect, regarding twitter... http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/news-industry-on-twitter-full.html -Scott<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13508','Scott Doty'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13508','Scott Doty','BTW, another article that notes a particular disconnect, regarding twitter...\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/broadcast.oreilly.com\/2009\/04\/news-industry-on-twitter-full.html\r\n\r\n -Scott'); return false;">Quote</a></div> BTW, another article that notes a particular disconnect, regarding twitter…

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/news-industry-on-twitter-full.html

-Scott

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]]> By: bloggingmom67 http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-13427 bloggingmom67 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:39:19 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1263#comment-13427 <a href='#comment-13419'>@Reid Sullivan</a> - True ... there is the beauty of serendipity in a newspaper, finding a story by accident that's a great read or moving. Totally agree. And newspapers, especially general-interest ones, will continue to write for a mass audience in print. They have to, and they should. But they also have to and should make strong efforts online. The online audience fragmented in the same way the TV audience fragmented as cable stations proliferated. Take your own publication, for example. It's a niche. A very important niche in my mind, but it works because it tries to appeal to that niche and not reach everybody. A see a lot of value in that approach as all our audiences continue to fragment. Thanks for sharing. -- Gina<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13427','bloggingmom67'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13427','bloggingmom67','<a href=\'#comment-13419\'>@Reid Sullivan<\/a> - \r\n\r\nTrue ... there is the beauty of serendipity in a newspaper, finding a story by accident that\'s a great read or moving. Totally agree.\r\n\r\nAnd newspapers, especially general-interest ones, will continue to write for a mass audience in print. They have to, and they should.\r\n\r\nBut they also have to and should make strong efforts online. The online audience fragmented in the same way the TV audience fragmented as cable stations proliferated.\r\n\r\nTake your own publication, for example. It\'s a niche. A very important niche in my mind, but it works because it tries to appeal to that niche and not reach everybody. A see a lot of value in that approach as all our audiences continue to fragment.\r\n\r\nThanks for sharing.\r\n\r\n-- Gina'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Reid Sullivan –

True … there is the beauty of serendipity in a newspaper, finding a story by accident that’s a great read or moving. Totally agree.

And newspapers, especially general-interest ones, will continue to write for a mass audience in print. They have to, and they should.

But they also have to and should make strong efforts online. The online audience fragmented in the same way the TV audience fragmented as cable stations proliferated.

Take your own publication, for example. It’s a niche. A very important niche in my mind, but it works because it tries to appeal to that niche and not reach everybody. A see a lot of value in that approach as all our audiences continue to fragment.

Thanks for sharing.

– Gina

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]]> By: bloggingmom67 http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-13426 bloggingmom67 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:34:54 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1263#comment-13426 <a href='#comment-13396'>@spygrrl</a> - Great to meet you spygrrl! -- Gina<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13426','bloggingmom67'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13426','bloggingmom67','<a href=\'#comment-13396\'>@spygrrl<\/a> - \r\n\r\nGreat to meet you spygrrl!\r\n\r\n-- Gina'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @spygrrl –

Great to meet you spygrrl!

– Gina

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]]> By: Reid Sullivan http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-13419 Reid Sullivan Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:00:03 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1263#comment-13419 You make so many excellent points here I can't list them all. I do want to quibble with the notion that there's something wrong with attempting to cater to a mass audience. The beautiful thing about a newspaper, done well, is that the print edition exposes readers to information they didn't know they needed or wanted. Holding a print newspaper in your hands forces you to at least glance at the headlines and consider the stories as you're "on your way" to other sections or stories in the paper. For instance, if you asked me if I'd want to read about volunteer firefighters, I'd probably say no. But give me a terrific tale about a conflict between adjacent volunteer-firefighter districts, one that's both entertaining and useful, as the Post-Standard did a few months back, and it's a "must-read," water-cooler fodder as surely as the most recent episode of "Lost" is. That's what's lost when local newspapers move to the Web--that common, democratic connection made when everyone is reading the same thing and talking about it.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13419','Reid Sullivan'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13419','Reid Sullivan','You make so many excellent points here I can\'t list them all. I do want to quibble with the notion that there\'s something wrong with attempting to cater to a mass audience. The beautiful thing about a newspaper, done well, is that the print edition exposes readers to information they didn\'t know they needed or wanted. Holding a print newspaper in your hands forces you to at least glance at the headlines and consider the stories as you\'re \"on your way\" to other sections or stories in the paper.\r\n\r\nFor instance, if you asked me if I\'d want to read about volunteer firefighters, I\'d probably say no. But give me a terrific tale about a conflict between adjacent volunteer-firefighter districts, one that\'s both entertaining and useful, as the Post-Standard did a few months back, and it\'s a \"must-read,\" water-cooler fodder as surely as the most recent episode of \"Lost\" is. \r\n\r\nThat\'s what\'s lost when local newspapers move to the Web--that common, democratic connection made when everyone is reading the same thing and talking about it.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> You make so many excellent points here I can’t list them all. I do want to quibble with the notion that there’s something wrong with attempting to cater to a mass audience. The beautiful thing about a newspaper, done well, is that the print edition exposes readers to information they didn’t know they needed or wanted. Holding a print newspaper in your hands forces you to at least glance at the headlines and consider the stories as you’re “on your way” to other sections or stories in the paper.

For instance, if you asked me if I’d want to read about volunteer firefighters, I’d probably say no. But give me a terrific tale about a conflict between adjacent volunteer-firefighter districts, one that’s both entertaining and useful, as the Post-Standard did a few months back, and it’s a “must-read,” water-cooler fodder as surely as the most recent episode of “Lost” is.

That’s what’s lost when local newspapers move to the Web–that common, democratic connection made when everyone is reading the same thing and talking about it.

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]]> By: spygrrl http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-13396 spygrrl Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:57:53 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1263#comment-13396 GREAT article. I couldn't agree with you more. I love to write, and it is my goal to do it in a personal, effective manner to continue to support my local community. For me, I am way too subjective to be a "real" journalist. lol If it is written with heart, it has value.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13396','spygrrl'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13396','spygrrl','GREAT article. I couldn\'t agree with you more. I love to write, and it is my goal to do it in a personal, effective manner to continue to support my local community. For me, I am way too subjective to be a \"real\" journalist. lol\r\n\r\nIf it is written with heart, it has value.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> GREAT article. I couldn’t agree with you more. I love to write, and it is my goal to do it in a personal, effective manner to continue to support my local community. For me, I am way too subjective to be a “real” journalist. lol

If it is written with heart, it has value.

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]]> By: Listening to Your Readers | PPP-100 | Just another Content.ksg.harvard.edu weblog http://savethemedia.com/2009/04/25/journalists-must-change-thinking-to-change-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-13254 Listening to Your Readers | PPP-100 | Just another Content.ksg.harvard.edu weblog Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:18:31 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1263#comment-13254 [...] this blog, there is a post suggesting that journalists must change their thinking and listen to readers more in order for journalism to survive.  I know in my comment on a post [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13254','Listening to Your Readers | PPP-100 | Just another Content.ksg.harvard.edu weblog'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13254','Listening to Your Readers | PPP-100 | Just another Content.ksg.harvard.edu weblog','[...] this blog, there is a post suggesting that journalists must change their thinking and listen to readers more in order for journalism to survive.  I know in my comment on a post [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] this blog, there is a post suggesting that journalists must change their thinking and listen to readers more in order for journalism to survive.  I know in my comment on a post [...]
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