I’ve heard a number of MSMers suggest to me in recent days that maybe bloggers should stop complaining about how The Washington Post publishes non-true statements about climate change as fact in its pages, and then has its editors and ombudsman claim that these false statements are true, becau...

Whether you get your news on a printed page or over the Internet, it's hard to miss all the hand-wringing over the future of newspapers. A TIME magazine cover story"How to Save Your Newspaper" by Walter Isaacson is drawn from......

The survival strategy of the San Francisco Chronicle, and possibly newspapers in general, is to adopt the marketing model of Big Tobacco. Target your existing core customers of Boomer and G.I Joe readers and ride them into the grave, while grooming younger thirty-somethings with cash to spend on car...

Web publishing zealot Jeff Jarvis like to yell Darwinian slogans at print journalists . "There is no divine right for newsroom jobs," he wrote earlier this month. "Nor is printing and trucking an eternal verity of the field." It was surprising, then, to hear the media futurist's complaint about toda...

Via Instapundit, CNET has a very good report on remarks that the News Corps' Rupert Murdoch made in recent lectures held by the Australian Broadcast Corporation, Murdoch to media: You dug yourself a huge hole. Because it is Murdoch, the Left will have their usual hissy fit and attempt to ignore what...

Singapore newspapers continue to report rising readership and increasing circulation. So Rupert Murdoch may have nothing new to say to them. But anyone interested in the media and the internet may be fascinated by Murdoch’s speech on “The future of newspapers: Moving beyond dead trees�. Murdoc...

Stephen Glover of the Independent does not deny newspapers' bleak economic condition, but believes the industry is "not as troubled" as some think it to be. Glover opens with a stream of negative information concerning newspapers: plummeting profits, battered circulation numbers, and increased layof...

Perhaps this last full week of June 2008 just past will be looked back on as the week the final death throes of the newspaper industry began -- 900+ layoffs, copy-editing jobs to India (and more details on an earlier move that have been largely overlooked, a redesign in Orlando that has become the i...

Plenty has been written about Orlando's redesign, partly because it is the coming out of the Zellanistas at the Tribune and because Tribune provides one of the largest testing ground for this kind of design that is heavy on color, label heds, "news you can use" and "fear news," etc. If you haven't y...

There are two reasons why I left the newspaper business and, at the moment anyway, have no intention of going back. The first was that many of the people controlling the business today do not care all that much about journalism. The second was that, among those who do care, hardly any have a clue ab...