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acknowledging that kurt andersen a hell of a writer has a distinctly mixed record as a media prognosticator nonetheless he s making some points in a recent new york article you ought to consider in essence the premise is this don t write off newspapers because you think what they re doing won t last after all they might evolve we ve talked about evolution before on this blog you may recall evolution revolution hand grenades and weather report damp for instance he takes a look at a cable news show loopping endlessly over anna nicole smith and postulates given the dumb and dumber choices i can easily imagine newspapers web video portals becoming the tv journalism destinations of choice for smart people that is in the 21st century the dominant nineteenth century journalistic institution newspapers might beat the dominant twentieth century institution tv at the premium part of its own game later he talks about a couple of newspaper to video experiments that work online video can also exploit the long tail in ways tv can t there may not be many of us who want to watch a hep romanian mayor justify prejudice against gypsies the post or sarah vowell s illustrated ode to the architect louis sullivan the times but i adored both if documentaries are hard to get shown in theaters and on tv imagine the obstacles faced by serious shorts but now in the online archives of u s papers are thousands of videos among them dozens of exceptional short docs more like miniature frontline s or public radio with pictures than like network news segments available anytime this is video journalism on demand years ahead of digital television because i elect to watch a story then see it on a computer screen eighteen inches from my face i focus in a way tv doesn t require and later washington post reporter travis fox sees himself as a sort of quiet revolutionary eager to overthrow the ancien régime the possibility to replace television is in sight ann derry the times video no 2 enthusiastically but very calmly says we are reinventing journalism posted by howard at 3 46 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday february 19 2007 it s all just media now npr invited a gang of the country s best thinkers about changing media to washington last week to talk about the network s future the result has been an outpouring of interesting blog posts intriguing ideas and complex connections i ll cite a few of the key links below you can follow the emerging web of ideas by starting pretty much anywhere and clicking through the links they provide to one another a couple of thoughts along the way you ll note that while national public radio is flying high these days that 200 million philanthropic gift growing respect and reputation great public affairs and features journalism things are not so bright for the hundreds of local public radio stations that subscribe the many separate programs that local stations piece together to fill most of their broadcast day are available now in many other forms podcasts streaming audio perhaps satellite and in the future will almost surely by pass the need for a local broadcast outlet local public radio news isn t remotely up to npr quality well maybe in miami and the stations are understandably antsy jeff jarvis has some advice that s beginning to sound rather familiar stop thinking like a radio station on air broadcasts are no place for the hyperlocal content everybody s seeking nowadays but jarvis argues this may sound familiar that the broadcasts can drive audiences to online communties that extend the radio franchise the broadcast has the power to develop local communities of news information and interest it can use its promotional power to drive people there it could for example get people in a market to record every damned school board and town council meeting and put them online served by the station it could create the meeting place where people share news and information competing with or even in cooperation with local papers it could be a home for talk about local issues and news local television is thinking more about print many are selling classified ads on their websites radio needs to stop thinking like radio newspapers are adding video and audio online it s all just media now there s a 10 minute video overview of npr s deep thinkers thinking deeply here david weinberger starts his extensive and engaging discussion with a post found here it includes many valuable introductory links to other participants jeff jarvis initial post about the experience is here scroll down to the friday post to start reading doc searls observations at his blog here posted by howard at 5 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest spanking local television from journerdism this link to an intriguing little article about how newspapers are spanking local tv in online video posted by howard at 2 50 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest playing offense online in norway interesting story here from the international herald tribune describes how a norwegian newspaper publisher has emerged as one of the biggest internet players in europe and perhaps a model for how publishers can profit online update i somehow missed the fact that this was also an nyt story a taste at a time when other newspaper companies lament a loss of readers and advertisers schibsted is thriving no profit warnings here earnings rose 28 percent in the fourth quarter online operations will generate about 20 percent of the company s revenue this year according to analysts at kaupthing a bank based in reykjavik even as many other big newspaper publishers struggle to reach the 10 percent mark perhaps more important at least for investors online businesses will provide nearly 60 percent of the company s operating earnings by next year the kaupthing analysts predict schibsted has become so emblematic of online success that bharat anand a professor at harvard business school is writing one of the institution s well known case studies on the company there s clearly something quite special here anand said there s no question they managed this transition earlier than a lot of newspaper companies and they re in a better position as a result posted by howard at 2 22 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday february 18 2007 keep hope alive we talked here last fall about hope and hobbits item three on the archive page here contrasting the christian view of hope grounded in belief that good ultimately triumphs with the nordic notion that one keeps fighting because it is the right thing to do regardless of likely outcome now kathleen mccoy has highlighted another discussion of hope this from harvard business review s list of breakthrough ideas for 2007 keyed to the role of hope in leadership here s a taste people must see that change is possible and how they can engage personally in that change the remaining elements have to do with how hope is cultivated in organizations hopeful work groups are most often composed of individuals whose worth to the organization has been affirmed who perceive an openness on the part of management and who enjoy an authentic sense of connection with their colleagues and with the organization s mission even so briefly described these elements suggest why hope can be an energetic force for positive change to a degree that say optimism alone could never be posted by howard at 10 20 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday february 17 2007 our audiences are smart i know some of you have wrestled with questions about whether allowing comments and forums generated by readers somehow devalues or contaminates staff produced content no fact is audiences are pretty smart and they can tell the difference between a nuanced staff editorial and a partisan rant they understand a detailed documented investigative piece carries more weight than an ungrounded conspiracy theory david weinberger said this far more elegantly at a recent panel discussion pondering these questions at npr you can watch a video clip of his argument at andy carvin s peripatetic multimedia blog posted by howard at 1 06 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday february 16 2007 all opinion all the time the washington post is summarizing editorial and op ed commentary from a wide range of newspapers in a feature they call the editorialist aggregation will become crucial for news operations that want to command a wide audience the post s feature like slate s old standby today s papers uses a human journalist to aggregate it s also done with minimal human intervention by using rss feeds whether it s local news or opinion somebody s going to pull it all together for readers might as well be you posted by howard at 10 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest blowing up the newsroom in atlanta the atlanta journalism constitution will radically restructure its newsroom and undertake concerted efforts elsewhere to shape the company s response to changing conditions according to reports friday the best overview story is unsurprisingly from the newspaper itself judging simply from this first explanation the ajc s newsroom plan could be described as both more radical and more realistic than the information center campaign that drew so much attention at gannett last november as i read it the structural changes rest on this underlying premise that newsgathering and news distribution are distinctly separate enterprises nowadays and they will now be handled independently of one another in the ajc newsroom as julia s memo and the stories all report there will be four newsroom divisions breaking news enterprise journalism print production and digital production presumably copy generated by any of the news teams will find its way online and or into print based on editors determination of where it belongs actually producing newspaper pages or online presentations will be the province of specialists from those divisions operational arrangements will no doubt be intricate and sometimes messy but there is an elegance and underlying simplicity in this arrangement that appeals to me it will be fascinating and surely instructive to watch as it develops some of you may wonder why there hasn t been grand plan announced at mcclatchy are we that far behind cox and gannett in responding to competitive changes not hardly it s not our style to centralize and roll out singular initiatives with big titles mcclatchy 2000 but innovation and change are well established in our operations our online growth has been impressive and we capture a larger percentage of total revenue online than anybody but the big national players nyt and the washington post fresno s online operations news and sales have been thoroughly integrated with newspaper functions for more than a year now it s probably no coincidence that the percentage of revenue from online there leads the company too raleigh recently debuted a locally developed reorganization plan that moves the newsroom to the front ranks of the revolution anchorage will unveil new initiatives in coming weeks wichita is increasing dedicated online staff in the newsroom from 2 5 to 17 and so on throughout the company chris hendricks and i will be playing an increasingly active role in helping spread this innovation rapidly around the company local strategic expertise and news judgment remain our basic touchstone but conversations about change priorities and follow through will be more focused and more frequent they must the great helmsman recommended constant disciplined rejudgments as the path to improvement so too for us we ll work to communicate continuously test constantly revise and reiterate incessantly watching you all do so is the basis of my great and growing confidence in our future posted by howard at 3 22 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday february 14 2007 first out of the gate we talked yesterday about a long list of ideas newsrooms can implement to help reach audiences online and also asked you to think about highlighting online content on page one like the wall street journal perhaps kansas city must have been lying in the weeds on this one they re first out of the gate with a flurry of activity this morning three new online ventures all highlighted prominently beneath the flag on the front page one was specifically mentioned on our list an online version of the typical business page feature about local promotions and other press release type information one was a direct steal from sacramento a paid premium content political site and one was i suspect pure genius an online site showcasing the editorial cartoons the paper wasn t willing to use in print gutsy and surely irresistable great start kc kudos posted by howard at 11 39 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest video storytelling you hear people talk about the need for new kinds of journalists whose skills are chiefly about how to handle and interpret data information architects is one term this video beautifully illustrates a kind of data based storytelling that wouldn t be possible any other way posted by howard at 11 19 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday february 13 2007 beating tv on video newspapers are beating television stations in the race for local video advertising revenue and presumably beating them on audience growth as well that s the substance of a new report from borrell associates outlined in an e p story here the report says newspaper websites captured about 81 million in advertising from streaming video compared with 32 million at television stations as chris hendricks said on the conference call today we re in the final stages of rolling out new tools to make your use of video your own and contributions from users much easier to handle as many of our sites have already demonstrated there are powerful new storytelling techniques available now that we could hardly have imagined just a few years ago posted by howard at 1 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday february 11 2007 transforming a media company idg is a worldwide media company with annual revenue just about the same as mcclatchy they do lots of print pc world macworld ceo magazines etc run a lot of websites present conferences and the like in this blog post their senior vp online talks about the company s rapid transformation to a genuine multimedia platform agnostic operation i m astonished and i guess encouraged at the speed with which their revenue picture has changed online 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