Mar
25
More about moving online
March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment
There is a huge gap in opinion between people who think newspapers should go online or die, and other people who think something terrible is happening to newspapers.
I should admit that, despite encouraging people to compete with newspapers, I don’t want them to go away. I think of blogging as a supplement to the newspaper.
As [...]
Mar
24
Online is the new going away
March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
About a half dozen people have said the same thing to me since The Ann Arbor News announced that it will close this July: “Journalism isn’t going away. It’s just moving online.”
I wish that were true, but the daily newspaper that I am currently reading on paper has laid off what remains of its staff, [...]
Mar
20
Video on why newspapers still matter
March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
As a follow up to my post of last month (New role for online journalists, Feb. 19), I give you a TED talk about why newspapers still matter. New York Times tech writer John Markoff discusses what newspapers (ideally) do that news online doesn’t quite do (yet).