Save the Media

Today, I’m turning over my blog to a guest poster, Amber Hensley, who writes about the online college. Amber freelances for online education Web sites and offers some tips for social media. She welcomes your feedback at AmberHensley1980@yahoo.com.  She’s writing about one of my favorite topics: Twitter and journalists. It’s a topic I’ve written about [...]

For decades news organizations have tried to figure out how to capture those illusive female readers. A room full of editors who were by and large likely white and male would metaphorically bang their heads against the wall, trying to conjure what that confounding group that makes an estimated 80 percent of the buying decisions [...]

What would artisanal news look like? I’d never heard this term until Dave Hendricks, who blogs at Attentionization, used it when he wrote about my post regarding what newspapers could learn from the decline in the ice harvesting business. (Read more about how he explains artisanal news in the comments on that post.) I like [...]

Some big news here at the Save the Media blog. Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab has asked me to throw some blog posts their way. I’m quite excited about it. The blog is a compilation of a variety of bloggers — one of whom now will be me — who write about the transformation in journalism, [...]

It appears the new era of paid online news is coming. Fast. The New York Times has been considering a monthly Web access fee. Rupert Murdoch has announced he’ll be charging for online content on News Corp. sites. The Boston Globe has told its union bosses it will start charging for Boston.com. Britain’s Financial Times, [...]

Just catching up some more on great stuff about the transformation of journalism: GrowthSpur: Mark Potts at Recovering Journalist is floating a new business, called GrowthSpur, aimed at helping local news sites have success. Potts, co-founder of the early but unsuccessful hyperlocal network Backfence, writes on his blog that GrowthSpur will help local sites get multiple revenue sources, [...]

Time for some short-takes of interesting stuff about the transformation of journalism from around the blogosphere: Golden Age: A guest post by Tim Gleason, dean of  the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, on Oregonlive.com is getting quite a buzz around the Twitterverse. He argues that journalism isn’t dead, though the business model [...]

I’ve spent the last 19 summers working at newspapers, so I know how lonely a newsroom can feel during the dog days of August. It often seems like half the staff in on vacation. News tends to slow, unless you count the spike in crime as the mercury and humidity climbs. This summer likely was even more [...]

Peter Osnos proposes in Columbia Journalism Review that Google meter the news, helping to determine what percentage of payments should go to the  creator of the content. He suggests this as a way to both help newspapers monetize on the Web and level the playing field, so the newspaper that produces a story that ends [...]

Sometimes to look forward you need to look back, way back. Consider this:  Both recording information by writing and the telephone — two experiences ubiquitous today were once cause for a bit of alarm. Sound familiar? Just as some news organizations today bemoan the Internet and its ability to offer content for free and its [...]