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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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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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