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Media 2.0 – what’s off the table
In ‘saving’ journalism, there’s a tendency to bet the house. It’s time to start thinking about just what we’re trading away. Much has been written about what needs to change to secure journalism business models in the future. But what of the things that shouldn’t? What about a list of non-negotiables, the deal-breakers, the aspects of reporting that should be OFF the table in dealing in a new way of reporting? Let’s start a list…
Cyberstumped: Big Media offline
Video never did kill the radio star, and nor will the internet and digital news kill newspapers. Similarly, despite what the sales department and bean counters will tell you, the recession we almost had is not responsible for the precarious balance sheets at many traditional media organisations. News companies are slicing costs and dicing journalists almost entirely for one reason: vision – or a Blind Pew-like absence of it.
Times aren’t changing at Fairfax
Enough already. I just can’t take it anymore. Whether it’s the precious blogging world, or the desperately precious newspaper sector, I’m sick to death of being told partial ranting is the very essence of quality journalism. Or that aggregating copy produced for newspapers is the future of online media.
For true Grace, mags still rule
An exhausting number of words have been written on the future of journalism in a digital age, but little has been made of what sort of future art and design has in the seemingly inevitable online convergence. The wonderful new documentary The September Issue brings into sharp focus the real art of magazine production in danger of being lost.
Punch no knockout for journalism
The Punch – News Limited’s brave foray into stand-alone online publications – will “celebrate journalism”, according to its mouthpiece David Penberthy. And it does all this, remarkably, without actually doing any journalism itself. Well, thanks for the invite, but I don’t feel the sense of celebration.
Google should search for fix, too
I am loath to support anything Rupert Murdoch says or does. His contribution to journalism as it stands is hardly impressive. But he’s right for questioning Google and its legally-questionable, commercially-shortsighted rip-and-read model of news delivery.
Incompetence, not net, kills media
The recession is not killing Big Media in this country, as the sales department will tell you. Nor is the internet and digital media to blame, as the prevailing theory goes. Media companies in Australia are struggling to make a buck through a lack of imagination. Through short-sightedness. Through commercial timidity, certainly. Ultimately, though sheer management incompetence.
Blog off, you still need journalism
I’ve managed to enter the blogging brigade without ranting on what I REALLY think of blogging. It’s time we got to the point. Old media, or at least old media delivery models, is almost completely redundant. Is blogging the future? God I hope not. At least in its current form.
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