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Who Should Decide What News Matters?

by Tim Berry on July 23, 2009

in Journalism

Back in the old days editors decided what was news. Not advertisers and not readers. There was this concept called “news values.” Full-time professionals laid out the front page. They tried to highlight important political, economic, and social trends, coverage deemed important, rather than celebrities, fashions, nudity, and violence.
This was a long time ago. Back [...]

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Journalism, TechCrunch, Stolen Information

by Tim Berry on July 21, 2009

in Journalism, Weblogs

This — the TechCrunch publishes stolen information flap last week — is why I worry about the gradual disappearance of Journalism as newspapers and traditional advertising disappear.
You may or may not have read about it. Somebody stole documents from Twitter’s computer and sent them to TechCrunch. They stole more than 300 memos, presentations, projections, and [...]

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Is Journalism Dead, Dying, or Just Faking It?

by Tim Berry on May 19, 2009

in Journalism, Writing

I feel like I’m watching Journalism fall apart; watching with interest, horror, and dismay … but just watching, like watching a fire from far away, powerless.

Like you do, I read about the newspapers folding, falling like trees in a rotting forest. Even the New York Times is in trouble. Many of the newspapers I grew [...]

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Does the News Business Die Along with Newspapers?

by Tim Berry on March 31, 2009

in Current Affairs, Journalism, Reflections

In the olden days, when I was a grad student in Journalism, for instance, or a night editor for UPI, the business model of the news business was fairly clear:

News organizations sold advertisements.
They needed news to get readers to be able to sell the ads.
News needed credibility to get the readers.

So we had a news [...]

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