Kathy E. Gill 16 October 2009

Trends: Shift Happens The Market Abhors A Vacuum It’s Not Just Newspapers The Move To Real-Time News

Trends: Shift Happens

The Market Abhors A Vacuum

It’s Not Just Newspapers

The Move To Real-Time News

39% Pew, Jan 2009

39%

9% Pew, Jan 2009

9%

State of the News Media, 2009

State of the News Media, 2009

Mid-1980s : 22% 1998 : 21% 2005 : 19%

Mid-1980s : 22%

1998 : 21%

2005 : 19%

1998: Monica & Bill (Drudge) 9.11.2001 2002: Trent Lott (right & left) 2004: Memogate 2004: Asian Tsunami 2005: London bombings 2007: AttorneyGate (TPM, George Polk award) 2009: AmazonFail and Iran Elections

1998: Monica & Bill (Drudge)

9.11.2001

2002: Trent Lott (right & left)

2004: Memogate

2004: Asian Tsunami

2005: London bombings

2007: AttorneyGate (TPM, George Polk award)

2009: AmazonFail and Iran Elections

1999: Yahoo! buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million individual Web sites (most abandoned!) 1999: the Poynter Institute starts the “MediaNews” blog 2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000 blogs worldwide in total February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs 2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger 2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com; >1B monthly pageviews; Yahoo! shutters GeoCities

1999: Yahoo! buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million individual Web sites (most abandoned!)

1999: the Poynter Institute starts the “MediaNews” blog

2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000 blogs worldwide in total

February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs

2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger

2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com; >1B monthly pageviews; Yahoo! shutters GeoCities

The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998 ; “Dispatches from the Coast” is the first known use of blog to cover a breaking news story.

The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998 ; “Dispatches from the Coast” is the first known use of blog to cover a breaking news story.

The mass audience is dead Publishing is free (push-button) The cost of dealing with atoms goes up as readership goes down Today’s professional listens as well as talks This is not a cyclical change

The mass audience is dead

Publishing is free (push-button)

The cost of dealing with atoms goes up as readership goes down

Today’s professional listens as well as talks

This is not a cyclical change

Clay Shirky Howard Rheingold Jay Rosen TheReadWriteWeb A Fair(y) Use Tale (copyright) RSS (et al) In Plain English

Clay Shirky

Howard Rheingold

Jay Rosen

TheReadWriteWeb

A Fair(y) Use Tale (copyright)

RSS (et al) In Plain English

Photos are iStockPhoto or fair use: Crowd, http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/ Megaphone, http://warkscol.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/superchick_megaphone_logo_hi.jpg Kent State, photo John Paul Filo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings Tank Man, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/ Death of Neda Agha-Solton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan

Photos are iStockPhoto or fair use:

Crowd, http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/

Megaphone, http://warkscol.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/superchick_megaphone_logo_hi.jpg

Kent State, photo John Paul Filo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Tank Man, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/

Death of Neda Agha-Solton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan

This presentation is published on WiredPen.com and Slideshare.net Kathy E. Gill http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill or @kegill http://wiredpen.com/ and http://slideshare.net/kegill

This presentation is published on WiredPen.com and Slideshare.net

Kathy E. Gill

http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill or @kegill

http://wiredpen.com/ and http://slideshare.net/kegill