Currybet: News innovation isn’t just about writing code, it is about how we use that code to tell stories
Friday, 1 April 2011, 14:00
Martin Belam: "on the web you can find newspapers being accused of failing to invent all manner of digital services, including Google, Facebook, Quora, Craigslist and The Huffington Post. Personally, I’m unconvinced that this isn’t akin to ask…
The Economist: Bold newspapers: The crucible of print
Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 11:53
"The strategies being pursued by News Corporation, the Daily Mail and General Trust and Lebedev Holdings rest on distinct assumptions about what readers want, what they will pay for, and the future of advertising. It is highly unlikely that all th…
Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: Future of news innovation in the US is coming from outside of journalism
Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 16:55
Martin Moore: "There are growing numbers of people in the States who have moved beyond the increasingly circular debates about how to sustain the incumbent news industry. Instead, they are working on lots of projects that use the internet and mobile to provide the public with timely information, in an accessible way. In other words, deliver what journalism did – or was meant to – deliver, without calling it journalism."
Slate: Electronic tablets can’t possibly save magazines and newspapers
Monday, 4 January 2010, 08:31
Jack Shafer on December 22: "I can't help but applaud the rush of the magazine and newspaper industry to save itself exploiting a new publishing platform. But all the hoopla reminds me of the hype that greeted previous electronic publishing technologies… That's not to say that the tablet has no future. It's just if the past is any guide, the future of the tablet won't look like the SI or Wired prototypes—any more than Pathfinder turned out to be the future of the Web."
The Wrap: Netflix Founder to Magazine Publishers: ‘I’m Your Worst Fear’
Saturday, 17 October 2009, 12:02
"[Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix] said that a growing rivalry between employees who work on the DVD side of the business versus those on the streaming video side is causing at least some “internal tension” at Netflix – not unlike the tension between print and online staffs within some newspaper newsrooms."
SimsBlog: Top 10 Lies Newspaper Execs are Telling Themselves
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 09:44
From a great list by Judy Sims: "Most newspaper employees are not qualified to do the strategic thinking required to manage disruption let alone create it in the form of new products that may challenge the core because they still see themselves as print newspaper employees. Just stating that you are a 'news' company instead of a 'newspaper' company doesn’t make it true."
New York Times: High School Football Formation: Offense of the Future, or Just Unfair?
Saturday, 13 June 2009, 10:03
Malcolm Gladwell's recent discussion of the full-court press in basketball as an example of insurgent innovation reminded me of this story about the A-11 offense in American football. Underdogs use it to beat conventional tactics and some in the game's establishment think it's unfair or unsporting. Boohoo.
The New Yorker: Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath
Saturday, 13 June 2009, 09:26
Malcolm Gladwell: "When the game becomes about effort over ability, it becomes unrecognizable—a shocking mixture of broken plays and flailing limbs and usually competent players panicking and throwing the ball out of bounds. You have to be outside the establishment—a foreigner new to the game or a skinny kid from New York at the end of the bench—to have the audacity to play it that way. George Washington couldn’t do it. His dream, before the war, was to be a British Army officer, finely turned out in a red coat and brass buttons. He found the guerrillas who had served the American Revolution so well to be “an exceeding dirty and nasty people.” He couldn’t fight the establishment, because he was the establishment."
Charles on… anything that comes along: David v Goliath in the newsroom, and why we need new wrappers for journalism
Saturday, 13 June 2009, 08:56
"What the established news organisations in the US really need to have right now is some people on their commercial side who really live on the internet, in the way that so many technology journalists have been for years and years. I wonder to what extent they do; all the talk about paywalls has that slight tinge to me of people who don’t live there, and look at all those millions of page views and think “surely we can persuade a few of them to pay'."
Media Guardian: Re-inventing journalism in London
Saturday, 13 June 2009, 06:43
"A lot of journalists are fighting their IT departments, with rubbish CMSes and stuff like this," [Mark Ng] said, but he wants journalists to "meet developers who want to build stuff that is good and does interesting things".
"There are a lot of developers who believe in decent news media and believe it is important to democracy," Ng said.
Online Journalism Blog: The impact of newspaper closures on independent local journalism and access to local information
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 06:38
Alex Lockwood: "The problem for existing traditional newspapers is that it is not part of their business model to innovate ways for local people to engage directly with the democratic process. … Other (and often better) ways to access information within local communities, including news and issues of local democracy, already exist. It was not a local newspaper that developed www.theyworkforyou.com"
Reflections of a Newsosaur: A tale of two very different journalism start-ups
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 06:45
Bill Grueskin compares Journalism Online and Publish2: "One new firm seeks to generate much-needed revenue by building a platform for subscription services, another seeks to generate new forms of journalism with a platform to share and distribute content. It’s hard to reconcile those two visions of journalism’s future."
Wired.co.uk: Where did all the money go?
Saturday, 25 April 2009, 10:56
Peter Kirwan: "Apart from Google, there’s a conspicuous absence of latter-day equivalents to Amazon, eBay and Yahoo! among the lists of VC exits since 2003. … This isn’t the Great Transition that Tim O’Reilly and his cohorts had in mind in 2005. In the face of the huge market failure created by the Big Media’s encounter with the web, venture capital’s response has been abysmally weak."
Nieman Journalism Lab: Why young reporters need to get past their institutional mindsets; or, how reporters are like priests
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 14:50
"[The] institutional mindset among young journalists is a big problem. Anyone who talks to a lot of managers in newsrooms — “the baby-boomer, Woodward-and-Bernstein era” types — has heard them complain about their 23-year-olds: how they’re not interested in video or multimedia, how they’re not providing the fresh ideas the old timers wish they were."
