Changing face of journalism

real life examples

Philadelphia Daily News – owners filed for bankruptcy

Minneapolis Star Tribune filed for Chapter 11

Miami Herald – asking for donations from readers

Detroit News – struggling

Boston Globe – struggling

et al...

Philadelphia Daily News – owners filed for bankruptcy

Minneapolis Star Tribune filed for Chapter 11

Miami Herald – asking for donations from readers

Detroit News – struggling

Boston Globe – struggling

et al...

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1883785,00.html?imw=Y

The headlines speak for themselves

• Regional papers are disappearing, becoming web-only, cutting swathes through the hard copy sections they offer – in a fight for survival

• Regional papers are disappearing, becoming web-only, cutting swathes through the hard copy sections they offer – in a fight for survival

http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Hearst-150-year-old-Seattle-P-I-Newspaer-Closing-S_1/2890153

• Go digital, seek buyer or close

• As print advertising vanishes so does profitability

• Go digital, seek buyer or close

• As print advertising vanishes so does profitability

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iyyouBk-R3lV7m8ddfUUpfpW6VcwD9CK2DLO1

• Seeking donations from readers to sustain an online business readership model

• Seeking donations from readers to sustain an online business readership model

http://losangeles.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2009/11/23/daily3.html

• Don’t post anything on a site that you would not feel comfortable about everyone seeing

• Don’t post anything on a site that you would not feel comfortable about everyone seeing

Even the BBC realises that something seismic is happening and is starting to respond to the changes

Even the BBC realises that something seismic is happening and is starting to respond to the changes

http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/bbc-news-appoints-its-first-social-media-editor

• Spot.Us funds investigative journalism via a crowd-sourced model likely to catch on around the world

• Spot.Us funds investigative journalism via a crowd-sourced model likely to catch on around the world

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jP-sjoFKsedvWfL-ypj63eZBuZyQ

• Niiu is Europe’s first newspaper tailored to readers’ individual wishes

• Will more follow this model?

• Niiu is Europe’s first newspaper tailored to readers’ individual wishes

• Will more follow this model?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/business/media/25mag.html?_r=2&ref=media

• Publishing consortium developing an ‘online news stand’

• A kind of ‘iTunes for magazines concept’

• Publishing consortium developing an ‘online news stand’

• A kind of ‘iTunes for magazines concept’

http://thenextweb.com/uk/2010/01/07/news-organisation-orders-journalists-install-tweetdeck/?awesm=tnw.to_11VyF&utm_medium=tnw.to-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=tweetmeme

• The big news outfits are forced to adapt

• Instilling a social media mindset into its writers through access to tools they would have banned in the office one year ago

• The big news outfits are forced to adapt

• Instilling a social media mindset into its writers through access to tools they would have banned in the office one year ago

http://www.utalkmarketing.com/pages/Article.aspx?ArticleID=16128&Title=Newspaper_composed_completely_of_blog_content_hits_London

• Citizen journalism writ-large as bloggers and ‘readers’ dictate the content

• Plans are to eventually fund through advertising

• Citizen journalism writ-large as bloggers and ‘readers’ dictate the content

• Plans are to eventually fund through advertising

http://www.brandrepublic.com/Discipline/Digital/News/950413/Newspaper

• Actively encouraging readers to interact in real time through Google Wave

• Aim is to appeal to younger readers with disposable income

• Actively encouraging readers to interact in real time through Google Wave

• Aim is to appeal to younger readers with disposable income