Here’s a visual aid for feeling the pain in the newspaper industry of recent layoffs. As management searches for a bottom, it is likely the cuts will be deeper than necessary just to make sure of a bounce back in the right direction. Problem is, until you find the point at which you are making [...]
Entries from June 2008
Map of Journalism Layoffs
June 25th, 2008 by { Stephen Goforth } · No Comments · news
Tags:layoffs·newspapers
Too Much Freedom of the Press?
June 19th, 2008 by { Stephen Goforth } · No Comments · news
There’s a bill in Congress that would provide protection for journalists from naming those anonymous sources they come up with from time-to-time. Former newspaper guy Carter Wood thinks it’s a bad idea and he explains why in a Forbes article. Wood suggests the law could be used as a cover for illegal activity. Whether the [...]
Tags:Journalism·Legal·Sheild Law
Should google share its earning from Google News with news providers?
June 9th, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · news
Is having to go to just one place (Google News) for searching any news (Thanks or no thanks to RSS feeds) help live the news providers for long. We definitely have seen the ad revenue’s failing for most news agencies. And recently Wall Street journal assessed Washington Post’s online experiment a failure.
