open Democracy: Journalism’s many crises
Saturday, 23 May 2009, 14:56
Todd Gitlin: "Four wolves have arrived at the door of American journalism simultaneously while a fifth has already been lurking for some time. One is the precipitous decline in the circulation of newspapers. The second is the decline in advertising revenue, which, combined with the first, has badly damaged the profitability of newspapers. The third, contributing to the first, is the diffusion of attention. The fourth is the more elusive crisis of authority. The fifth, a perennial – so much so as to be perhaps a condition more than a crisis – is journalism’s inability or unwillingness to penetrate the veil of obfuscation behind which power conducts its risky business. "
WSJ.com: Some Newspapers Shed Unprofitable Readers
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 12:20
"But the reality is in some ways less bleak than the latest [circulation] numbers indicate: Some newspapers have raised newsstand prices, curtailed discounted copies and halted delivery to the least profitable customers. Also, while print circulation has been declining for years as readers continue their mass migration to the Web, many publishers point out they are reaching more readers than before through print and online."
Observer: Are papers in freefall? Not if they innovate
Sunday, 19 October 2008, 11:45
Peter Preston: "Sometimes, amid encircling gloom, it's wise to set benchmarks longer than a week last Friday. Always, there are choices to be made – or not made. And usually (perhaps, maybe) innovation is its own reward. A Times drop of under 20,000 in five years isn't systemic collapse. A Guardian surge online that brings in more than 23 million unique users a month on top of a million-plus print readers isn't carnage."
BBC: Today: UK regional newspaper sales fall
Monday, 1 September 2008, 10:39
"Roy Greenslade, of City University, and Peter Barron, from the Northern Echo, discuss why regional dailies and weeklies are suffering most. "
Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 12:54
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Commenter rips into Gavin O’Reilly’s view about the health of newspapers: "It’s fine for aul Gavin, investing in rising markets in India and Africa, but I don’t work there and I don’t invest there."
Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 16:07
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"[The US newspaper] industry has lost about 10% of circulation overall in the past four years among the leading papers, some have bled much more than others during the same period, according to an E&P analysis of data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations
Monday, 11 February 2008, 00:27
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Euphemisms for media correspondents, a masterclass: "Across the board, circulations of paid-for newspapers continued their slow adjustment to the internet age."
Friday, 16 November 2007, 08:47
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"Trinity Mirror recorded 0.1 per cent advertising growth in the ten months to October…. Trinity’s data included all the group’s iinternet revenues, which account for 5 per cent of continuing operations … "
Monday, 12 November 2007, 07:51
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"I think we are the only newspaper that overtly markets itself as paper, online and mobile. It’s the combination of those three things which is the really important result. We do not look in isolation around newspaper circulation; that’s just one element.
Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 08:46
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"The circulation declines of American newspapers continued to accelerate over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released today."
Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 12:24
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"The start of the freesheet wars in London between News International’s thelondonpaper and Associated’s London Lite has triggered a major rethink at the once-monopolistic Evening Standard…."
Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:05
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"[B]uilding a great local web site was is in no-way dependent on putting the entire paper online. The flip side, of course, is that it’s hard not to rely on that daily dump of shovelware if your newsroom isn’t engaged in your web operation."
Monday, 1 October 2007, 10:55
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"Driven by marketing and delivery costs and pressure from advertisers, many [US] papers have decided certain readers are not worth the expense involved in finding, serving and keeping them."
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 14:01
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Peter Preston on how Eros card could be a step towards UK newspaper publishers finally getting a better understanding of who reads their newspapers. The current "two-stage distribution system [is] notably short on useful data".
