Podcasts are great because of the freedom that comes with them. You can find so many kinds of podcasts to attend to any of your interests. It really is its own form of media that nobody talks about; it just gets forgotten when you mention television, radio, and print before it. But I love podcasts.… Continue reading Podcasts: The Underrated Medium of Content
Many newsroom employees are very quick to point their fingers at specific organizations and technologies for layoffs and declining local news overall. But who is really to blame? The rise of the internet? The rise of social media? Jeremy Littau wrote in his Slate article that the bad seed goes back to the 1980’s and… Continue reading Who’s Responsible for the Decline of Media?
While we navigate through a transformative period of news and media, one fact holds true: we will always need news. Nonetheless, it’s changing — and changing fast. As we rebuild the news media, journalists all over the world are losing their jobs. There are few remaining local reporters; yet, our need for coverage increases everyday.… Continue reading SOS: It’s Time to Save Local News
It’s easy to blame the internet and tech startups like Facebook and Google for the journalism crisis. The internet destroyed the old business model and tech startups stole the ad revenue that newspapers relied on to stay alive. It wasn’t the media industry’s fault — disruptors simply came into the market and took more than… Continue reading Tick Tock, Time to Innovate
I’m not a stockbroker on Wall Street, but I don’t have to be to know that newspapers are bleeding out. Journalists across the country are getting let go and fired, not because they suck at their job, but because no one cares anymore. Don’t take that the wrong way, I feel terrible for the people… Continue reading Stock Price of Print – Record Lows
I was getting ready to leave the Breslin Center on Michigan State’s campus on a Monday afternoon a few weeks back when I stopped to chat with a mentor of mine. I asked him about the Free Press’ summer internship and the best way to apply. He told me some names, but at the end… Continue reading I was told to find a path out of journalism, but that’s the last thing I’m going to do
In China, we have a metaphor sentence structure: XXX is like oxygen, you won’t realize its importance until you lose it one day. In this case, I think “local journalism” fits the sentence. In the article “Gannett and the last great local hope”, the author said “a future without local newspapers is by now a… Continue reading Local news exist like oxygen
If I’ve learned anything from the recent news of media companies with massive layoffs, it’s that the news media’s main issue is that it has been massively devalued. In a Slate article, “The Crisis Facing American Journalism Did Not Start With the Internet,” the author, Jeremy Littau, notes that the economic fall of journalism isn’t just about massive publishers… Continue reading Funding local news requires a new attitude about journalism
Like our JRN 450 class talked about last week, Gannett, Buzzfeed, HuffPost and other media organizations are experiencing layoffs. This seemed like a concern among those journalism majors who plan on working in the industry after graduation. I think it’s a concern for me, whether or not I end up reporting after I graduate next… Continue reading Journalism is important, especially when it’s local
This week, we discussed the recent Gannett, BuzzFeed and HuffPost layoffs in the media. While this news wasn’t necessarily anything new, it was striking as journalists have often viewed BuzzFeed and HuffPost to be unique in the way they approach their audiences. It isn’t traditional media, and to watch it dwindle nonetheless is another blow… Continue reading Newspaper Layoffs – Where Are We Headed?
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