QOTD: Today’s…Wait For It…News
Posted: May 31, 2012 Filed under: Department of Print, sports | Tags: New Orleans Picayune Leave a comment »I dunno, I think he nailed it.
New Orleans Hornets win NBA lottery Wednesday. Read about it in Friday's Times-Picayune. That's the future. It's wrong. #savethepicayune—
Jason Gay (@jasonWSJ) May 31, 2012
Saints Owner Begs Newhouse to Keep Times-Picayune Daily
Posted: May 30, 2012 Filed under: Department of Print, sports | Tags: death of print 5 Comments »
Passionate and interesting argument from Tom Benson, owner of the New Orleans Saints:
It is hard for me to imagine no Times-Picayune on Monday, February 4, 2013, the day after our city hosts Super Bowl XLVII. Cities like ours deserve, and have, at least one daily paper. A city that will celebrate 300 years as a city deserves a daily newspaper.
I understand the need to embrace the evolving technology that comes with the digital media. However, I see on a daily basis the need to have a vibrant newspaper in the hands of those that have made it a daily habit to pick up the paper and read it from cover-to-cover. I proudly count myself in that number and have for much of my life. Our city needs and deserves the Times-Picayune to remain a daily newspaper, which will work hand-in-hand with your digital storytelling ventures.
I don’t know if I agree that the lack of tangible paper to hold on will change the coverage, but you can’t hand the Super Bowl MVP a Tablet to hold up with the hometown headline (actually, yes you can).
Progression of Paper Books to eBooks – Animated – as told by Douglas Adams
Posted: May 29, 2012 Filed under: publishing | Tags: eBooks Leave a comment »Well, I think the title covers it. But watch and love:
Some really, really clever thoughts on EBooks here. Plus it’s pretty. The audio is from 1993, and there was an entire competition in the UK for setting it to video.
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Press-Register’s “Goodnight, Everybody!”
Posted: May 25, 2012 Filed under: Department of Print | Tags: Print is Dying Leave a comment »
Do read the Charles Apple take on this one. Seriously.
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When Paperboy Gets Bought by News Corp
Posted: May 16, 2012 Filed under: Department of Print | Tags: Think of the Paperboys Leave a comment »Cracked has a pretty clever little feature (yeah, yeah, it’s a slideshow) on twist endings to our favorite childhood video games. Without escape is our favorite Paperboy:
True story, I had a childhood paper route.
How An Idea Becomes A Book [CHART]
Posted: May 15, 2012 Filed under: publishing | Tags: Publishing Leave a comment »Aw, print.
Created by Weldon Owen found via here.
NYT Subscribers Almost Back to Loss-Leaders by 2014
Posted: May 14, 2012 Filed under: publishing Leave a comment »
When you are comparing subscribers to circulation, the only way I can think about it is loss leading. Just a thing. I just wish there were other ways to measure the value of someone looking at each piece of content…
More Are Reading the News from Newspapers, Just Not In Newspapers
Posted: April 25, 2012 Filed under: Department of Print Leave a comment »Newspapers improved upon their website traffic in the first quarter of 2012 with a 4.4 percent increase year-over-year in adult unique visitors (113 million) and a 10 percent increase in adult average daily visitors (25 million).
Further, newspapers achieved a more than 7 percent increase in unique visitors ages 21 to 34, with average daily visits by this age group up 17 percent and total visits rising by 15 percent, an analysis performed by the Newspaper Association of America with data provided by comScore reveals. Young audience engagement with newspaper websites also is demonstrated by a 10 percent increase in average daily visitors in the 18-to-24 age group.
QOTD: Shirky on Publishing
Posted: April 11, 2012 Filed under: publishing | Tags: Clay Shirky Leave a comment »I love this sentiment, I think it’s right to the point of how things have changed:
Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There’s a button that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done.
News and Tech Survey: Pie Charts That Add up to Over 100 Percent
Posted: April 9, 2012 Filed under: Department of Digital, Department of News, Department of Print | Tags: future of newspapers Leave a comment »The question, from News and Tech’s 2012 Tech Survey, is “what trend or technology do you believe the newspaper industry can’t afford to ignore if it wants to remain viable?”
A bit confusing to read there, so here’s a better way to think about it: almost two-thirds of the respondents (based out of News & Tech’s industry-wide readers) said mobile can’t be ignored, while almost half went with the paywall answer. Intriguingly, I think the answer that was the lowest – becoming data-first or digital-first – is the most fascinating.
