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Two blog posts today draw attention to the fact that newspapers and TV stations are turning from producing news to buying it:

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I am not a big fan of Marshall McLuhan. I do not find his insights to be especially helpful. But that could be my lack of imagination rather than any fault of MM’s. After all Tom Wolfe and Woody Allen, two undoubted geniuses, insist that McLuhan was the “most important thinker since Freud”.
So what […]

Why micro hosted video sites? Forbes does not explain.The short answer is that these sites will be underwritten by micro-advertisers, targeting micro-audiences.

Noting the enormous costs incurred by traditional media newsrooms Michael Rosenblum has a suggestion:
Go over the local University. Get yourself a dozen bright and eager young journalists. They all have their own cameras and laptops anyway. And start your own local [online] news channel.
The one stop Michael omits is on the way back from the […]

From Editors weblog: “Y BYD (’The World’) will be the first ever daily newspaper in the Welsh language. It will be launched on 3 March 2008“. Encouraging news for anyone  who values the role of newspapers in defining, enriching and informing the communities they serve. 

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The 12 guiding principles in the BBC impartiality report, published in today’s Media Guardian. Here’s number 7:
Impartiality is no excuse for insipid programming. It allows room for fair-minded, evidence-based judgments by senior journalists and documentary makers, and for controversial, passionate and polemical arguments by contributors and writers.
Impartiality “allows room” for informed opinion? Surely […]

Center for Citizen media reports that the National Journal Group and NBC News will embed VJs with presidential campaigns:

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NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion program wrapped up earlier this month with a panel discussion. One of the panelists was Andrew deVigal, multimedia editor for the New York Times:
“Success is not going to be measured by the number of hits or by the number of Web pages served. It’s going to be determined by the amount of […]

NEW YORK Eighteen Baltimore Sun photojournalists launched a byline strike today protesting Tribune Co.’s move to force reporters to become photographers and videographers as a way to cut costs, according to a press release sent to E&P today by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. It will continue for three days.

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Excellent summary of the World Editors Forum from the always insightful Rebecca McKinnon. The good news from Capetown:
“newspaper companies aren’t on the verge of death….whatever the format, people recognized that ultimately, newspapers’ survival will depend on journalism. Credible, accurate, and relevant journalism.”

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A $10 shovel or a $20,000 work of art?
Well, it’s both. Back in 1916 Marcel Duchamp opened his first exhibition of readymades with a sign: “Who cares who made them, I chose them!”. The notion that discovering a product could be more profitable than making one, was a novel idea, and caused […]

More importantly:
In a February poll from We Media and Zogby Interactive, 72% of adults said they were dissatisfied with the quality of American journalism today. Another 55% said bloggers are important to the future of American journalism, and 74% said citizen journalism will play a vital role, according to the poll.

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