More on Newspapers
Posted on April 22, 2007
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On an early morning browse I came across this article, from Grade the news, which seems to me one of the most articulate reflections on the issues facing newspapers. By inference it provides insights into what the start-up community needs to know about old media pain. Here’s an extract:
“!Today’s newspapers are stuck in the old hunter-gatherer model of journalism. But now we need information processing more than information production. The market is calling for information that is easy to find and use, and that requires very good editors to help us navigate through all the noise. We need more specialists who can explain events in their arcane fields. We need more trusted sources to alert us when attention should be paid. These jobs will require more skilled, better paid journalists than the newspaper marketplace is able to attract now. Steve Lacy is right: Quality pays.”
Television declined because it started asking people to work for free so there’s more than a grain of truth in what Philip Meyer is saying. But go read. It’s an old post (October 2005) but well worth a few minutes.
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