6. other headlines The death of the news If reporting vanishes, the world will get darker and uglier. Subsidizing newspapers may be the only answer. By Gary Kamiya Pages 1 2 3 Feb. 17, 2009 | Journalism as we know it is in crisis. Daily newspapers are going out of business at an unprecedented rate, and the survivors are slashing their budgets. Thousands of reporters and editors have lost their jobs. No print publication is immune, including the mighty New York Times. As analyst Allan Mutter noted, 2008 was the worst year in history for newspaper publishers, with shares dropping a stunning 83 percent on average. Newspapers lost $64.5 billion in market value in 12 months. other. paper cuts . .
15. News focus across countries http://www.observatoiredesmedias.com/2008/03/24/le-monde-dans-les-yeux-dun-redac-chef-lamericaine-version/
16. Wiki Journalism “A professional newsroom can’t easily do this kind of reporting; it’s a closed system. Because only the employees operate in it, there can be reliable controls. That’s the system’s strength. The weakness is the organization knows only what its own people know. Which wasn’t much of a weakness until the Internet made it possible for the people formerly known as the audience to realize their informational strengths.”
I have interests in . . . Alternative media and their frameworks; concerns about reliability/credibility mechanisms w/in web news; investigative journalism (does it have a role in democracy? If so, what business model should support it?); local/global complexities as a direct result of the impact/ availability of web tools) Yet for this short talk, simply want to offer a survey of the landscape . . . What journalists have coined as “drive-by reporting” CNN’s John Roberts or Anderson Cooper often “parachute into a story” knowing they must leave out the larger complexities of the issues involved!
