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pers and copley is trying to sell seven the new york times sold its television stations and the boston globe may be in play belo eliminated its pension plan cleveland and san jose added to the growing ranks of laid off journalists akron and contra costa decided they could do without executive editors more and more it looks like we are going to be the generation called on to save american journalism it s a nice honor and all but it s not going to be easy in fact it will be brutal as the sad litany of recent events well illustrates mcclatchy hasn t escaped unscathed either and we know there s more pain to come revenues continue to erode undermining the business model our traditional operations were built on if we make a lot less money we ll have to spend a lot less too and that leaves fewer resources for the crucial fight at hand business as usual isn t possible and journalism by attrition doing everything 10 percent less well than we did it yesterday is inadequate how do we handle that partly by reaching out on new platforms and in new channels partnerships are sure to play an increasingly important role we can be even more relentless in expense savings negotiate better rates learn to share content more regularly although people are working hard and productively we all know we can manage to a higher standard most fundamentally we need to reinvent the way we do things where we focus the resources we have how we manage our newsrooms if you were starting from scratch today would you build a newsroom exactly like what you have now that s a question we should be asking all the time now adjusting operations constantly as the answers change most importantly we have to keep the mission at the center of decision making while we adapt how can we continue to hold government accountable give voice to the voiceless speak truth to power how do we build community cohesion inform civic debate make life better for the average person if we can answer those questions well we re winning no matter how hard the fught becomes howard weaver posted by howard at 7 03 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 14 2006 top newspaper reporter heads for the web from jay rosen s pressthink blog this story about a top pulitzer wining investigative reporter from new orleans who left the paper and plans to explore the web this is john mcquaid and this path of destruction a book about what hurricane katrina did to the gulf and why in 1997 he won with path co author mark schleifstein the pulitzer prize for public service the highest award in the craft of enterprise reporting it was for oceans of trouble a series on the decline of global fisheries washing away is also mcquaid that s the famous 2002 series for the times picayune on hurricane preparations again with mark schleifstein it predicted the floods and failures of 2005 mcquaid is a proven craftsman in a demanding form explaining a big complicated story that is hidden from normal view in this two part q a the rest is tomorrow he explains how it became impossible for him to remain at the times picayune and continue to practice his craft my investigative job was eliminated and i was told that the focus was on everybody pulling his or her weight to put out the daily paper i m not sure about rosen s ambitious plans for a national network of journalists and citizens joining to produce enterprise stories and investigations but i am pretty sure there s productive ground to plow in what he refers to as pro am journalism where professionals guide the work of contributors this is essentially the model of the widely successful south korean ohmynews which attracts huge audiences and is said to have swayed national elections there the english language international version is here nieman reports had devoted a whole issue to citizen journliasm unfortunately in pdf only that includes good background on how ohmynews works could a couple of journeyman editors working with scores of web amateurs cover one of your community zones has anybody tried it howard weaver posted by howard at 4 54 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday november 11 2006 what a mogul thinks about the l a times one of the most captivating subtexts in the current turmoil surrounding our industry is the apparent interest selected billionaires are expressing in buying marquee newspapers this is new david geffen buying the l a times would be substantially different than brian tierney heading up a consortium to purchase the inquirer tierney s bunch borrowed a lot of money to buy the inky and as dean singleton has pointed out it s not much more fun to work for your bankers than for wall street if he wanted to he wouldn t geffen could simply write a check and no matter how he structured the deal he wouldn t have the cash flow pressure that operating on borrowed money brings i won t presume to know what jack welch thinks about when he ponders buying the boston globe except this he lives in boston and obviously loves the place maybe that adds motivation geffen thinks local ownership of the times would be good for l a too and i suspect he also figures he already knows a thing or two about building audiences a writer at laweekly last week described what he said geffen was telling friends now i m told geffen is starting to plan what he intends to do to the paper once it s his he plans to staff more like stuff the paper with name writers and journalism stars of course he ll raid the new york times where frank rich and his wife alex witchel are his good friends and occasional overnight guests so are nora ephron and nick pileggi so are a lot of literati he ll demand quality he ll ratchet up the web site even though he hates how prohibitively expensive it is to do that he ll figure out a way to bring in latinos as readers geffen hates how boring badly written inconsequential and pedestrian the l a times editorial and opinion section is he thinks nobody reads it he knows nobody talks about it most of all he wants his newspaper to be talked about now we d all like a plan that started with hiring more staff but looking beyond that think about where this seems to be headed brand name high profile buzz online extension quality reaching new demographics not boring people at the l a times already know doing those things would help of course so do we but far too often we let notions about things we have to do get in the way of doing things we really believe could move the needle on building audiences and creating communities since you can t just layer on expenses to hire frank rich and nora ephron you d have to stop doing something else and wouldn t you be better off creating our own stars anyhow which might involve little more than giving some of your best people more room to maneuver do you have somebody in the paper regularly right now who does this show us where to find the best things she s done lately point us to his column where s the very best stuff at mcclatchy who has something we just can t live without howard weaver posted by howard at 11 08 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 09 2006 new touchstones enduring mission we all learned to produce newspapers according to a set of touchstones and metrics that were refined and polished over generations success meant a bigger staff a larger newshole longer series more prizes you staffed and covered everything running wire on any story within striking range was failure much of that is history some things don t change let s take it as a given that our mission isn t different we re here to produce the journalism of verification fair accurate independent reporting that speaks the truth to power holds government accountable gives voice to the voiceless builds community cohesion we create and empower citizens if that s not our animating purpose i don t want to keep doing it but standing by ourselves in an empty room telling stories won t accomplish that how do we reorient what are the new touchstones nobody knows for sure yet of course but i have some ideas i wonder if you do too the most important involves turning our yardstick upside down what matters is not just what we do but also what people do with it the educator who argued i was teaching but they weren t learning had obviously missed the point so too the editor who tries to argue that her decisions were right but the readers didn t care i d propose this as new metric number one grow audience in whatever channel and on whatever cycle the audience dictates chase them find them embrace them serve them capture them and how about this for number two accept that news is an interactive collaborative process these days the audience is your partner in every significant respect helping shape your decisions and contributing their own voices along the way we ll learn the proper weight to attach to other touchstones engagement personality excitement non generic ideas and assignments humor whimsy buzz star quality brand name performers multiple channels and tools we will learn how to attach even more value to the tremendous capacities we already have potent narrative storytelling tough minded independence levelheaded judgment non partisan detachment fearless agnostic investigations deep community roots and understanding any ideas about what else to include in amongst the new touchstones you could add them as comments here howard weaver posted by howard at 9 52 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday november 04 2006 hyper local hero photo by bob christy kent state rob curley has gotten a lot of good press for his success at newspaper websites but none better than the profile now online at fast company here s a typical observation then along comes curley unburdened by pieties about how we ve always done it unlike previous ink stained generations he and his mostly young charges practice journalism with software code video podcasts audio slide shows blogs whatever works multimedia storytelling comes as naturally to him as satire did to mencken likewise interactivity the notion of a newspaper as a conversation rather than a lecture doesn t strike fear in curley the way it does some newspaper purists it s exciting full of promise and although that may seem a little super heated there is much to like about the way curley approaches the business of employing digital tools to extend the work newspapers do importantly one clear focus is on satsfying the information needs of audiences not just doing what we ve always done in different forms i liked this explanation from curley most people still think of a newspaper web site as a digital version of what went on the press last night but that s a small part of what we do curley says i want a site to be so cool and important to people that they talk about it the way you talk about having a great park where you live it s a local amenity howard weaver posted by howard at 11 12 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest so just what is the gannett information center most of the fanfare yesterday about introduction of the gannett information center centered on the ceo s memo introducing it as a way to gather and disseminate news and information across all platforms 24 7 the information center will let us gather the very local news and information that customers want then distribute it when where and how our customers seek it the information center frankly is the newsroom of the future it will be platform agnostic news and information will be delivered to the right media be it newspapers online mobile video or ones not yet invented at the right time our customers will decide which they prefer much of that will sound familiar to those of us who gather here to write and talk about what we re doing to accomplish many of those same goals we don t have a new name or a plan to roll it out in one size fits all across newsrooms but there s a lot to like about what gannett is saying there s a detailed faq posted on romenesko that you ought to read the best reporting so far is at wired news where they focus on the effort to incorporate distributed reporting crowdsourcing is the term wired uses to involve readers in newsgathering efforts i have heard gannett editors express concern in recent months about at least one aspect of the plan the company says changing the name from newsroom to information center recognizes that w hile news remains our preeminent mission other information especially local information is increasingly in demand calendars recommendations lifestyle topics as well as neighborhood level stories are all new elements in early stages of their discussions at least there were plans that some editors thought extended the newsroom into areas more akin to advertorial or outright advertising activity please take time to get up to speed on the gannett moves and please share new information about what they re doing and how it s being received in newsrooms we want to learn all we can pro and con to help navigate our own transformations howard weaver posted by howard at 7 34 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 02 2006 imagining the future and the present one of my favorite authors william gibson neuromancer and pattern recognition had an op ed piece in the nyt about what we can learn from george orwell about imagining the future and describing the present as well i don t know that this bears in any direct way on the subjects we usually address here but i was intrigued and wanted to share this here is the link and here s a great sample it is becoming unprecedentedly difficult for anyone anyone at all to keep a secret in the age of the leak and the blog of evidence extraction and link discovery truths will either out or be outed later if not sooner this is something i would bring to the attention of every diplomat politician and corporate leader the future eventually will find you out the future wielding unimaginable tools of transparency will have its way with you in the end you will be seen to have done that which you did howard weaver posted by howard at 10 40 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom about howard this site is being retired much of my work will continue to be collected here but you can find my commentary more reliably at edge flow or my sacramento bee sacconnect site quantum dice most of my digital datastream is linked from here you should also follow me on twitter here twitter updates you should follow me on twitter by clicking this link what is etaoin shrdlu headlines latest news from news mcclatchy com search this blog blog archive 2012 25 december 2 november 2 october 1 july 1 april 6 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