MetaFilter posts tagged with Blogs and newspapers

New afternoon free paper, hawked by kids shouting “Extra! Extra!”

joeclark — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:47:52 -0800

“With t.o.night, you too can remember the good old days, when Mom, Dad, Junior, Little Suzy, and Skip would all sit around the radio and listen to blogs on the Internet.” The solution to the decline of newspapers? Launch a new one, charge nothing for it, fill it with wire copy and stories from a city blog, publish it weekday afternoons, and hire kids to wear “poor-boy caps” and shout “Extra! Extra!” while handing it out. t.o. night (sic) will be a new afternoon free commuter paper in Toronto. City blog Torontoist – not the one supplying “content” to the paper (that’s BlogTO) – approaches this new competition with delicious skepticism. Maybe Torontoist has learned its lesson, since its own partnership with a paper (the storied Globe and Mail) generated content that goes without updates for unbloglike weeks at a time.

A New Species in the News Ecosystem

Potomac Avenue — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:12:07 -0800

The Huffington Post just announced that it is launching a new initiative to produce a wide range of investigative journalism — The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. Arianna Huffington has various ideas about how to fix the hole that failing newspapers leave behind, but this does have some precedent . Some reactions so far.

The Printed Blog is exactly what it sounds like

janet lynn — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:46:16 -0800

In yet another strange marriage of media new and old, The Printed Blog launches next week. The paper will be distributed in Chicago (home of the once-great, now-bankrupt Chigago Tribune) and San Francisco, and it’s free. “Why hasn’t anyone tried to take the best content and bring it offline,” asks founder Josh Karp. What about people who don’t live in Chicago or SF? They can get the PDF … online.

A print journalist admits her fear of blogs

ezfowler — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:07:34 -0800

A print journalist admits her fear of blogs "What the blog threatens to do is dislodge the traditional news media's corner on the "scoop" market. With their unorthodox reporting strategies and lightning-fast publishing schedules, blogs are making it clear that you don't need to have some big, fancy newspaper job to break stories. In fact, you don't even need to write stories; you can just throw a couple of sentences up on your site with some telling links. And you can quote that naked boy in your bed who knows how to hack protocols. Whatever."

Journaux munis d'un blog

joeclark — Thu, 01 Jun 2000 13:56:51 -0800

Journaux munis d'un blog The Guardian has a Weblog, as does The Age in Oz. Any other coelecanth media taking the plunge?

The Corporatization of Weblogs Has Begun, it is decreed

joeclark — Wed, 08 Mar 2000 15:03:39 -0800

The Corporatization of Weblogs Has Begun, it is decreed The current Editor & Publisher introduces blogging to its newspaper-editor audience and points out two blogs actually written by newspaper columnists. I do indeed agree that Weblogging is a viable new medium of expression for dead-tree media, and agree even more strongly that special-interest journalistic blogs are in desperate need. (I'm planning one myself, and wouldn't it be great to read dueling blogs on the same topic from rival newspapers?) I just worry that the column will have an illocutionary effect, i.e., it will cause something to happen just by uttering words, rather like "I now pronounce you married." In this case the words I worry about are "The corporatization of Weblogs has begun." I can hear Rushkoff griping about the good old days already. And I'd gripe along with him.