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content to be different » Blog Archive » Your reader — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:00:12 +0000

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Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:26:30 +0000

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By: Patrizia Broghammer

Patrizia Broghammer — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:13:47 +0000

“One of the most important, if not bitter discoveries for journalists over the past decade has been that they do not operate in the ivory tower of intellectual pursuit but are subject to the laws and mechanisms of the market.”
To be paid you must be successful and to be successful you must be popular, and to be popular you must say the things people want to read, just as you must show things people want to see, you must write songs people want to listen to, you must make movies people like to watch and so on…
That is where the great journalism and the great journalist comes into the picture.
To be able to say the truth in the way people are interested in reading it.
It is POSSIBLE, how many times we found out that a subject we expected to be boring, was, on the contrary a most interesting one?
Because it was told and explained in words we understood and liked.
Be simple, be clear, be interesting, be honest.
That will bring you on the top.

By: German editor bravely declares that journalism cannot and should not be shielded from the brutality of the marketplace « The Future of News

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:58:00 +0000

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By: Adrian Monck

Adrian Monck — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:14:00 +0000

Ah, the crises of journalism. Seventy years ago Henry Luce warned a conference: â€œThe crisis consists in the cheapening easiness with which anybody, anybody at all, can break into print (or over the air or on the screen).â€

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By: Steve Boriss

Steve Boriss — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:13:02 +0000

Amen. In fact, not only is protectionism not the answer, it has been the PROBLEM that is now making it more difficult for Old Media to keep-up. For years, we have had the protectionism of economics that only allowed one newspaper per metro area, and the protectionism of government broadcast regulations that only permitted up to 7 channels per metro area. One can only imagine how much better equipped outlets would now be against Internet competitors if they had not been shielded from the unfulfilled demands of news consumers. (Steve Boriss, The Future of News)