Newspapers are doomed, and they basically have themselves to blame for their sorry state of affairs. Perhaps more alarming, however, is the threat failing newspapers pose to journalism in the United States, and the larger threat to democracy. Robert McChesney and John Nichols lay out the crisis in U.S. media in their book, “The...
Recently I asked students in my Media & Society class what they were reading outside of textbooks and other books assigned by their instructors. In addition to the Twilight series and Harry Potter, the list of books included “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and...
Why are journalists falling all over themselves trying to figure out Twitter? Because the social network is growing at epic pace, from alerting the world to breaking news to providing sources and a media audience. In a MediaShift story, journalist Alana Taylor, a student at New York University, reports on a recent panel discussion,...
Newspapers, it would seem, are rapidly coming to the end of their press run. It’s shocking to many just how fast the bottom has fallen out of the industry. (Penny stocks, anyone?) As they struggle to continue their print editions, newspapers are joining in the scramble for the elusive online business model that will...
