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“Moral Imperative” for Google to Help Newspapers to Survive

by The Wordyeti | Jun 12, 2008 | journalism, newspaper crisis

…some might say the train has already left the station on that one… Not sure what it is that’s behind this announcement. Perhaps someone at Google belatedly came to the realization that without newspapers, there’s no real fresh content on the...

TV as We Know It is Dead: Shift to Web-based Video Costs Producers 88% of Ad Revenues

by The Wordyeti | May 17, 2008 | journalism, music, newspaper crisis, television

Can you say “Doomed”? Apparently, a report called “And Now for the News,” written by Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research, came out this week, and it’s got both Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and, not coincidentally, HDNet, and...

June 1 Protest for Photographer’s Rights

by The Wordyeti | May 16, 2008 | journalism, newspaper crisis

As someone who has spent much, much more than my share of time being hassled by cops for doing my job, face jammed onto the hot, stinking hood of a patrol car, I felt it necessary just to acknowledge this protest event being held at Hollywood & Highland on June 1....

Today’s Words of Doom: Winter 2005 Nieman Report on Citizen Journalism

by The Wordyeti | Jan 6, 2006 | Digital Migration, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch

Kee-rist, the vulture cloud swirling over newspapers is thicker, darker, and more obnoxious than the stains in Rush Limbaugh’s underpants after he takes a wrong turn and winds up in an “ethnic” neighborhood the allegations and cross-complaints in a...
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