Comments on: The last presses http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:40:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: The Future of Print Journalism | jleehks http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-462702 The Future of Print Journalism | jleehks Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:07:03 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-462702 [...] the Unthinkable,” Johnson’s “Old Growth Media and the Future of News,” Jarvis’ “The Last Presses,” and Carr’s “The Great Unbundling: Newspapers & The Net” pieces touch upon the [...] [...] the Unthinkable,” Johnson’s “Old Growth Media and the Future of News,” Jarvis’ “The Last Presses,” and Carr’s “The Great Unbundling: Newspapers & The Net” pieces touch upon the [...]

]]> By: Hwa Mcnealey http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-462385 Hwa Mcnealey Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:35:42 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-462385 Unquestionably imagine that that you said. Your favorite justification seemed to be at the web the simplest factor to remember of. I say to you, I definitely get annoyed even as other people consider issues that they just don't recognize about. You managed to hit the nail upon the highest as smartly outlined out the whole thing without having side effect , other people could take a signal. Will likely be back to get more. Thanks! Unquestionably imagine that that you said. Your favorite justification seemed to be at the web the simplest factor to remember of. I say to you, I definitely get annoyed even as other people consider issues that they just don’t recognize about. You managed to hit the nail upon the highest as smartly outlined out the whole thing without having side effect , other people could take a signal. Will likely be back to get more. Thanks!

]]> By: Journalism and technology « philippessl http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-461419 Journalism and technology « philippessl Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:50:19 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-461419 [...] needs to be persevered and what needs to be replaced in order to strive in this new environment. The Guardian represents a great example of how a major news institution embraces new opportunities that are [...] [...] needs to be persevered and what needs to be replaced in order to strive in this new environment. The Guardian represents a great example of how a major news institution embraces new opportunities that are [...]

]]> By: a newspaper reader’s reflection « jlm36 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-460941 a newspaper reader’s reflection « jlm36 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:35:27 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-460941 [...] news production, content, and advertising is no longer completely viable. In a 2005 blog post, “The last presses,” Jeff Jarvis provided a frank [...] [...] news production, content, and advertising is no longer completely viable. In a 2005 blog post, “The last presses,” Jeff Jarvis provided a frank [...]

]]> By: Jeff Jarvis on scaring The Guardian http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-445431 Jeff Jarvis on scaring The Guardian Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:03:29 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-445431 [...] I apparently have found my proper role in life: frightening people,” says Jeff Jarvis in The last presses on his blog, [...] [...] I apparently have found my proper role in life: frightening people,” says Jeff Jarvis in The last presses on his blog, [...]

]]> By: Newspapers on Their Last Presses? | Steve Clancy http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-436872 Newspapers on Their Last Presses? | Steve Clancy Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:45:16 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-436872 [...] day for the print media. I woke up today I found a post titled “The Last Presses” by Jeff Jarvis about the looming death of the print industry. Jarvis is apparently a media analyst [...] [...] day for the print media. I woke up today I found a post titled “The Last Presses” by Jeff Jarvis about the looming death of the print industry. Jarvis is apparently a media analyst [...]

]]> By: Newsplaces: the future of journalism « Unreasonabledude's Blog http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-432515 Newsplaces: the future of journalism « Unreasonabledude's Blog Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:12:45 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-432515 [...] truly liked Jeff Jarvis’ quoting Hug MacLeod who said that “rather than thinking of a newspaper as a thi.... To me, the key of today’s journalism style is its collaborative nature. Journalists need to [...] [...] truly liked Jeff Jarvis’ quoting Hug MacLeod who said that “rather than thinking of a newspaper as a thi…. To me, the key of today’s journalism style is its collaborative nature. Journalists need to [...]

]]> By: A Tale of Two Monopolies « Blogging from Binney St http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-431878 A Tale of Two Monopolies « Blogging from Binney St Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:56:42 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-431878 [...] but realized that it would be hard to add value to a debate which prominent bloggers such as Jeff Jarvis, Dan Conover and Nick Carr have already committed their braincells and bytes [...] [...] but realized that it would be hard to add value to a debate which prominent bloggers such as Jeff Jarvis, Dan Conover and Nick Carr have already committed their braincells and bytes [...]

]]> By: A week is a LONG time on a blog: catch up links | Open (minds, finds, conversations)... http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-423077 A week is a LONG time on a blog: catch up links | Open (minds, finds, conversations)... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:33:01 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-423077 [...] Buzzmachine: The last presses [...] [...] Buzzmachine: The last presses [...]

]]> By: Spalpeen :: Guardian.co.uk’s poor linking practices continue, Guardian video fixed (a bit) http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-398397 Spalpeen :: Guardian.co.uk’s poor linking practices continue, Guardian video fixed (a bit) Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:07:10 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-398397 [...] Really, there is absolutely no point talking about the future of newspapers (nor the prospect of The Guardian turning off its presses) if linking remains a secondary [...] [...] Really, there is absolutely no point talking about the future of newspapers (nor the prospect of The Guardian turning off its presses) if linking remains a secondary [...]

]]> By: But we make all our money from newsprint! - CoPress http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-386543 But we make all our money from newsprint! - CoPress Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:31:50 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-386543 [...] not in the newspaper business, we’re in the media information business. This is the scary part that no bean counter wants [...] [...] not in the newspaper business, we’re in the media information business. This is the scary part that no bean counter wants [...]

]]> By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The Monitor turns off the press http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-384713 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The Monitor turns off the press Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:09:36 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-384713 [...] among more editors and publishers at the conference about giving up the press. We’ll see more of [...] [...] among more editors and publishers at the conference about giving up the press. We’ll see more of [...]

]]> By: Beer, Chocolate, and Google at madisonian.net: a weblog about law, technology, and society http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-330542 Beer, Chocolate, and Google at madisonian.net: a weblog about law, technology, and society Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:04:23 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-330542 [...] Me, I worry more about the implications for journalism.  So Belgian newspapers don’t want Google to index their content?  Fine.  What is Google’s BATNA here?  Google can walk away.  Will anyone miss the Belgian media?  Or the French media, who are up to bat next?  That’s a serious question.  If Arthur Sulzberger is now speculating out loud about what the future holds for the New York Times (echoing, as it’s been noted, Jeff Jarvis), then why should we worry about whether Google (and others) have to pay to link?  Why shouldn’t we expect the media to pay Google to carry links to their content?  And if the media aren’t prepared to adjust their business models to deal with paying for electronic distribution — what becomes of them? [...] [...] Me, I worry more about the implications for journalism.  So Belgian newspapers don’t want Google to index their content?  Fine.  What is Google’s BATNA here?  Google can walk away.  Will anyone miss the Belgian media?  Or the French media, who are up to bat next?  That’s a serious question.  If Arthur Sulzberger is now speculating out loud about what the future holds for the New York Times (echoing, as it’s been noted, Jeff Jarvis), then why should we worry about whether Google (and others) have to pay to link?  Why shouldn’t we expect the media to pay Google to carry links to their content?  And if the media aren’t prepared to adjust their business models to deal with paying for electronic distribution — what becomes of them? [...]

]]> By: David Locke http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-265938 David Locke Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:12:49 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-265938 Whose going to pay for in-depth, long investigative journalism projects? We could bid on stories, and collectively the bids would go to the investigators. After that the book publishers would get involved. Another thing we could do is create annuities for each member of a story taxonomy. Then, the stories would get readers and feed contextual advertising click-throughs to monetize the situation. The monies wouldn't go directly to the writer, it would get turned into an annuity, and the annuity would pay all the writers in a given category. The problem with the ASCAP model is that it is broken as well. Software publishers learned a long time ago that license protection schemes diminished the amount of money they could make. The music industry will wake up to this as well. Stories are always going to be about another story. Most news comes from a story called a press release or a placement. If you tried to pay the sources for their words in a given story, you'd have an accounting nightmare on your hands. Whose going to pay for in-depth, long investigative journalism projects?

We could bid on stories, and collectively the bids would go to the investigators. After that the book publishers would get involved.

Another thing we could do is create annuities for each member of a story taxonomy. Then, the stories would get readers and feed contextual advertising click-throughs to monetize the situation. The monies wouldn’t go directly to the writer, it would get turned into an annuity, and the annuity would pay all the writers in a given category.

The problem with the ASCAP model is that it is broken as well. Software publishers learned a long time ago that license protection schemes diminished the amount of money they could make. The music industry will wake up to this as well. Stories are always going to be about another story.

Most news comes from a story called a press release or a placement. If you tried to pay the sources for their words in a given story, you’d have an accounting nightmare on your hands.

]]> By: David Locke http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-265923 David Locke Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:02:42 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-265923 The content is just there to motivate the conversion, but the conversion is about location, the address, of the response. Only at the response address will you know that the coversion actually happened. This is possible both on the web and in print, but who actually does it for print, and if they did, would they be so quick to migrate to the web? The content is just there to motivate the conversion, but the conversion is about location, the address, of the response. Only at the response address will you know that the coversion actually happened. This is possible both on the web and in print, but who actually does it for print, and if they did, would they be so quick to migrate to the web?

]]> By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-81445 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:25:24 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-81445 [...] We’re not an audience, damnit. I think this project needs to learn how to collaborate with the people formerly known as the audience. When they launched, I was cranky about it. They’re trying to reshape newspapers but I think they should be more aggressive and imagine the world after newspapers and figure out how to get news there. They need to get out there and work with the nonnewspaper people [...] [...] We’re not an audience, damnit. I think this project needs to learn how to collaborate with the people formerly known as the audience. When they launched, I was cranky about it. They’re trying to reshape newspapers but I think they should be more aggressive and imagine the world after newspapers and figure out how to get news there. They need to get out there and work with the nonnewspaper people [...]

]]> By: Wortfeld » Heimdrucker-Zeitungen http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-73846 Wortfeld » Heimdrucker-Zeitungen Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:09:54 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-73846 [...] Dass der Guardian mutig in die digitale Zukunft geht, hat er zuletzt mit Comment is free gezeigt, einer Kombination von Meinungsartikeln, Leserkommentaren und Blog-Links. Und die 120-Millionen-Euro-Investition in neue Druckmaschinen für den Relaunch hat Alan Rusbridger bekanntermaßen lakonisch kommentiert: “They may be the last presses we ever own.” [...] [...] Dass der Guardian mutig in die digitale Zukunft geht, hat er zuletzt mit Comment is free gezeigt, einer Kombination von Meinungsartikeln, Leserkommentaren und Blog-Links. Und die 120-Millionen-Euro-Investition in neue Druckmaschinen für den Relaunch hat Alan Rusbridger bekanntermaßen lakonisch kommentiert: “They may be the last presses we ever own.” [...]

]]> By: jojo1942 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-67667 jojo1942 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:15:30 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-67667 It seems crazy that a company with so much to lose like Quebecor would hire Lucas to run show. What kind of damage did he and his cronies do at Sun? It seems crazy that a company with so much to lose like Quebecor would hire Lucas to run show. What kind of damage did he and his cronies do at Sun?

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]]> By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The vision from Europe http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-44677 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The vision from Europe Sun, 07 May 2006 14:48:20 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-44677 [...] Continuing a string of visionary statements from European media bosses (see the Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger here, Reuters’ Tom Glocer here and here, the BBC’s Mark Thompson here, and Burda’s Hubert Burda here), now add this interview with Gruner + Jahr boss Bernd Kundrun. It’s in German in the Frankfurter Allegemeine Sonntagszeitung (sadly and ironically not free) and I’ll try to translate and paraphrase the good bits (please do correct me): The journalistic skill in the future wil be the moderation of ‘user-generated content,’ exactly like earlier information and data bases in the internet…. [...] [...] Continuing a string of visionary statements from European media bosses (see the Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger here, Reuters’ Tom Glocer here and here, the BBC’s Mark Thompson here, and Burda’s Hubert Burda here), now add this interview with Gruner + Jahr boss Bernd Kundrun. It’s in German in the Frankfurter Allegemeine Sonntagszeitung (sadly and ironically not free) and I’ll try to translate and paraphrase the good bits (please do correct me): The journalistic skill in the future wil be the moderation of ‘user-generated content,’ exactly like earlier information and data bases in the internet…. [...]

]]> By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Behind the Pulitzers http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-39823 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Behind the Pulitzers Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:36:01 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-39823 [...] So what should the Pulitzers reward? I complained that in awarding the Times-Picyaune with two well-deserved medals, the august committees did not see fit to specifically award Nola.com. No, they think, they award prizes to newspapers. But when they did their best work, the T-P was not a paper. It connected via online. The Pulitzers should be rewarding that specifically. They should be encouraging old newspapers to think past the press. For that is exactly what these news organizations must do if they hope to survive. If the Pulitzers truly cared about journalism — about its future and its very survival — they should be rewarding reporting and service to the community that occurs in any medium, not just trapped on dead pages. [...] [...] So what should the Pulitzers reward? I complained that in awarding the Times-Picyaune with two well-deserved medals, the august committees did not see fit to specifically award Nola.com. No, they think, they award prizes to newspapers. But when they did their best work, the T-P was not a paper. It connected via online. The Pulitzers should be rewarding that specifically. They should be encouraging old newspapers to think past the press. For that is exactly what these news organizations must do if they hope to survive. If the Pulitzers truly cared about journalism — about its future and its very survival — they should be rewarding reporting and service to the community that occurs in any medium, not just trapped on dead pages. [...]

]]> By: I.C.A Carpetbagger http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-39689 I.C.A Carpetbagger Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:03:21 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-39689 The printing and publishing industry is its own saddest and worst enemy. The news of the recent hiring of Wes Lucas by Quebecor, a large printing and publishing public company in the Stock Market, proves that the Board of Directors at Quebecor has apparently not investigated very closely the carnage that took place at Sun Chemical under the tumultuous and very short reign of Wes Lucas there and until his resignation was forced recently by the Japanese parent of Sun Chemical. This, only 2 or 3 years or so after he came in totally inexperienced in the industry of printing and printing inks. According to Sun insiders it will take many years before the damages done by the Lucas Gang, as they are referred to there, can be repaired. He thrashed the place completely and lost many of the key people while providing lucrative employment to a group of cronies that travel with him from job to job. All cronies were also inexperienced outsiders. At some point Sun Chemical observers started calling Sun Chemical as FEMA NEW JERSEY. Today most of the top 7 or 10 people at Sun are from outside the industry. Lucas seemed to hate printers and ink people and appeared to embark in a form of staff cleansing there in that respect in which the ink people and Sun Chemical staff were purged and humiliated into insignificant roles in favor of the highly paid cronies. The company became paralyzed. With all that on the record, low bottom morale, booted out by a typically tolerant parent in Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, he was immediately hired to run Quebecor, one of the largest printing and publishing and media companies and a major customer of Sun Chemical. Double jeopardy for sure. Lucas returns to haunt the Sun staffers again as a customer. Well the industry does not deserve to survive when its largest and best companies are their own worst enemies. Management like this should be kept out of this struggling industry or we will have the so call LAST PRESSES you mention much sooner than expected. I.C.A. Carpetbagger The printing and publishing industry is its own saddest and worst enemy.
The news of the recent hiring of Wes Lucas by Quebecor, a large printing and publishing public company in the Stock Market, proves that the Board of Directors at Quebecor has apparently not investigated very closely the carnage that took place at Sun Chemical under the tumultuous and very short reign of Wes Lucas there and until his resignation was forced recently by the Japanese parent of Sun Chemical. This, only 2 or 3 years or so after he came in totally inexperienced in the industry of printing and printing inks.
According to Sun insiders it will take many years before the damages done by the Lucas Gang, as they are referred to there, can be repaired. He thrashed the place completely and lost many of the key people while providing lucrative employment to a group of cronies that travel with him from job to job. All cronies were also inexperienced outsiders. At some point Sun Chemical observers started calling Sun Chemical as FEMA NEW JERSEY. Today most of the top 7 or 10 people at Sun are from outside the industry. Lucas seemed to hate printers and ink people and appeared to embark in a form of staff cleansing there in that respect in which the ink people and Sun Chemical staff were purged and humiliated into insignificant roles in favor of the highly paid cronies. The company became paralyzed.
With all that on the record, low bottom morale, booted out by a typically tolerant parent in Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, he was immediately hired to run Quebecor, one of the largest printing and publishing and media companies and a major customer of Sun Chemical. Double jeopardy for sure. Lucas returns to haunt the Sun staffers again as a customer.
Well the industry does not deserve to survive when its largest and best companies are their own worst enemies. Management like this should be kept out of this struggling industry or we will have the so call LAST PRESSES you mention much sooner than expected.
I.C.A. Carpetbagger

]]> By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Star news http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-35742 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Star news Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:02:00 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-35742 [...] What’s saddest about this is that it reveals no vision for the news. The ballsy news exec would have said it was time to break away from the pack and invent the news show for the news age: to perform the equivalent task to what Alan Rusbridger et al are trying to do at The Guardian, moving past paper. TV News needs to move past TV. Toward the end of his tenure, I got to know former CBS News President Andrew Heyward and I saw in him a glimmer of the courage needed to reject the old and create the new. I have no idea what he would have done with the CBS Evening News but I’d have been curious to see how he tried to eliminate the oracle and find a new, human voice for news. [...] [...] What’s saddest about this is that it reveals no vision for the news. The ballsy news exec would have said it was time to break away from the pack and invent the news show for the news age: to perform the equivalent task to what Alan Rusbridger et al are trying to do at The Guardian, moving past paper. TV News needs to move past TV. Toward the end of his tenure, I got to know former CBS News President Andrew Heyward and I saw in him a glimmer of the courage needed to reject the old and create the new. I have no idea what he would have done with the CBS Evening News but I’d have been curious to see how he tried to eliminate the oracle and find a new, human voice for news. [...]

]]> By: infotainment rules » help wanted, publishing division http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-34440 infotainment rules » help wanted, publishing division Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:13:10 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-34440 [...] Jeff Jarvis has been somewhat more polite, a lot more engaged (because he’s involved in some new-media ventures), but no less passionate than Dumenco about the need for media companies to move forward. Now. “From a business perspective, we need to stop whining about readers moving online. If that’s what they want to do, then go with them, damnit!” [...] [...] Jeff Jarvis has been somewhat more polite, a lot more engaged (because he’s involved in some new-media ventures), but no less passionate than Dumenco about the need for media companies to move forward. Now. “From a business perspective, we need to stop whining about readers moving online. If that’s what they want to do, then go with them, damnit!” [...]

]]> By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Homework http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/12/05/the-last-presses/#comment-34341 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Homework Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:59:53 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=825#comment-34341 [...] Rusbridger begins speaking about the fundamental question of the future of newspapers. “Some people,” he says, “think it’s an even more fundamental question than that: whether newspapers have a future. And wrapped up in all that is whether newspapers deserve to have a future. And if they do have a future, as what?” This from the editor who dared wonder whether his company had just installed its last presses. [...] [...] Rusbridger begins speaking about the fundamental question of the future of newspapers. “Some people,” he says, “think it’s an even more fundamental question than that: whether newspapers have a future. And wrapped up in all that is whether newspapers deserve to have a future. And if they do have a future, as what?” This from the editor who dared wonder whether his company had just installed its last presses. [...]

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