I'm not a journalist, but I am in the industry (developer for metro daily).
This is one of the more clueless and wrong headed set of ideas I've seen. I'd be preaching to the choir explaining why I believe that here. So, instead I'll make some important points that often seem to be forgotton.
Talking heads are not the newspaper industry. I don't believe the papers I'm involved with would agree with any of these ideas.
The AP is not the newspaper industry. Many papers despise what the AP is doing and are considering dumping them. (fear of that is causing the AP to freak out and do stupid shit)
National Big Name newspapers are not the newspaper industry. They get the attention cause they're big and have household names. But by far most papers, most circulation and most readership are small metro and community papers.
Newspapers are not the newspaper industry. There is a wide range of owners, ideas, and plans amongst newspapers. Some of the ideas are good some are bad. Some papers will shutdown, some will thrive, some will no longer be newspaper companies.
Good points all around. I've found developers at newspaper orgs often have better solutions to the problems in the industry then the 'media veterans' themselves.
Which paper do you work for? Would love to get in touch (alex at newscred dot com).
This is one of the more clueless and wrong headed set of ideas I've seen. I'd be preaching to the choir explaining why I believe that here. So, instead I'll make some important points that often seem to be forgotton.
Talking heads are not the newspaper industry. I don't believe the papers I'm involved with would agree with any of these ideas.
The AP is not the newspaper industry. Many papers despise what the AP is doing and are considering dumping them. (fear of that is causing the AP to freak out and do stupid shit)
National Big Name newspapers are not the newspaper industry. They get the attention cause they're big and have household names. But by far most papers, most circulation and most readership are small metro and community papers.
Newspapers are not the newspaper industry. There is a wide range of owners, ideas, and plans amongst newspapers. Some of the ideas are good some are bad. Some papers will shutdown, some will thrive, some will no longer be newspaper companies.