Re:Henry Blodget: Why Newspapers Are Screwed
by bootload on Sunday August 12, 2007 @08:00PM
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"... What's going to happen to all of the good reporters? ..."
If you haven't noticed, front-line, serious news gatherers have been diminishing for many years. Reducing the number of first hand source gatherers. Editors & sub-editors who read stories, check titles have greater responsibilities so last minute checks on stories with clanker titles, mistakes miss out. There has been a serious decline in the variety of sources (always bad). Younger readers are shunning traditional media (tv, radio, newspapers).
So what's happening? Is it all bad? Well yes and no. Joe public is now the news gathers with phone, sms and web in hand. Websites who specialise in particular topics gather & pick up these stories and traditional media lag behind.
The re-adjustment will occur when the new, "new media" sites are required to have greater technical, cost and professional standards. Markets will and have been re-adjusting the traditional news structure.
So does traditional media disappear?
No, they adjust, adapt or become irrelevant. At the moment - traditional journalism (reliable source gathering, questioning the status quo, looking beyond the hype, analysing ) has been the worse for wear and we are worse off for it.
If you haven't noticed, front-line, serious news gatherers have been diminishing for many years. Reducing the number of first hand source gatherers. Editors & sub-editors who read stories, check titles have greater responsibilities so last minute checks on stories with clanker titles, mistakes miss out. There has been a serious decline in the variety of sources (always bad). Younger readers are shunning traditional media (tv, radio, newspapers).
So what's happening? Is it all bad? Well yes and no. Joe public is now the news gathers with phone, sms and web in hand. Websites who specialise in particular topics gather & pick up these stories and traditional media lag behind.
The re-adjustment will occur when the new, "new media" sites are required to have greater technical, cost and professional standards. Markets will and have been re-adjusting the traditional news structure.
So does traditional media disappear?
No, they adjust, adapt or become irrelevant. At the moment - traditional journalism (reliable source gathering, questioning the status quo, looking beyond the hype, analysing ) has been the worse for wear and we are worse off for it.