May 27, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kurt W Zimmermann
Stefan Aust, former editor-in-chief of German news magazine Der Spiegel, can forget his idea of creating a competitor. The WAZ media group and the Springer group will not be joining his projected Woche. They simply don’t see a chance for...
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May 26, 2010 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Before the newspaper industry actually makes it to the media graveyard, experts predict another medium (television) may face the Reaper as well. In his blog “Reflections of a Newsosaur,” Alan Mutter, a media and technology...
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May 21, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Has online news perverted the wit of headline writing? David Carr, who writes “The Media Equation” for the New York Times wonders the same. In a world of search engine optimization, are we trading the classy snap of old...
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May 21, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Natascha Fioretti
Adrian Michaels, Group Foreign Editor with the Telegraph Media Group, discusses winning strategies behind the printed press and the Web. Profitable English daily the Telegraph boasts 40 million readers a month and has a free-access Web...
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May 19, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
For the Austrian website Der Standard it was only an April Fool’s joke, but many other quality newspapers proceeded to take the gloves off. The London Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch, Le Monde and Le Figaro as well as the Axel Springer AG...
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May 18, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Beate Josephi of the School of Communication and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Perth, publishes a new book about journalism education. The core of Josephi’s book, Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom, lauds...
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May 18, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Natascha Fioretti
Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal icon and now editor-in-chief of Pulitzer-winning news site ProPublica, discusses the changing face of journalism. Paul Steiger has dedicated much of his life to print journalism. The sixty-eight-year-old...
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May 3, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
An entire industry shrinks, yet paychecks for a select few remain bloated as ever. As we’re all quite aware, 2009 surely made its mark as an ugly year for media workers across the globe. Despite the widespread slicing of salaries and...
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April 29, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Kate Nacy
Study finds restrictions on press freedoms tighten across the globe. Freedom of the Press 2010: A Global Survey of Media Independence, a study conducted by Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization, registered declines in press...
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