The Art Newspaper: With newspapers in terminal decline, what future for arts journalism?
Monday, 1 June 2009, 07:41
"Arts journalism as we used to know it is sinking with the ship. … We are past the tipping point: it has become acceptable to run a paper with just a skeletal culture staff. Specialised writers are giving way to generalists. Culture sections are being tossed overboard … The problem is not the scarcity or the quality of arts journalism (the latter has always been mixed), but that no one is paying for it—at least not yet. Broadly speaking, there are three ways forward from here."
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 07:28
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Mark Shenton: "In the age of the blogosphere and bulletin boards, where everyone’s a critic (even if unpaid), the role of professional critics may be even more important to provide something to judge all the opinions flying around against."
