Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic
(Blog Post) The business environment for newspapers continues to be grim. Pew recently reported that advertising revenue rebounded in 2010 for all forms of media, except newspapers.* This might just be a matter of transitioning from print to digital revenues but for the fact that the market values a print reader far more highly than a digital one. The more or less official label for this problem is “analog dollars to digital dimes”; because of the enormous ... Full Story »
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Can a non-profit (or even not-for-profit) classification also help media report more fairly, more relevantly, and with more focus on providing news that will inform and empower its readers?