Comments on: Downbeat

By: PDA’s Newsbucket | Richard Hartley

PDA’s Newsbucket | Richard Hartley — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:32:38 +0000

[...] Wired• Technology Guardian's top 10 gadgets of 2008 >> Guardian• Downbeat >> BuzzMachine• Nokia eases access to Internet services >> Reuters• iPhone music games give artists new [...]

By: What’s black and white and red all over?: BRAD NEESE AT LARGE

What’s black and white and red all over?: BRAD NEESE AT LARGE — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:01:01 +0000

[...] one part bailout seasoning with another part perennial journalistic self-pity, pour it out over the Christmas/New Year’s publishing interregnum and presto!—it’s time for patriotic men and women to get behind a government rescue of what [...]

By: Sell ads, save a journalist « Virtualjournalist

Sell ads, save a journalist « Virtualjournalist — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:09:55 +0000

[...] ads, save a journalist By virtualjournalist As the handwringing and teeth-gnashing by journalists continues over the sorry state of their profession, and the news industry inches [...]

By: Regeneration

Regeneration — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:12:03 +0000

[...] who subscribe to the notion that print journalism is a pillar of democracy. Jeff Jarvis collected more than a dozen columns and editorials from veteran media professionals published in just one weekend to that effect. They all believe [...]

By: Saving Newspapers « Cindy’s Take on Tech

Saving Newspapers « Cindy’s Take on Tech — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:25:22 +0000

[...] on his Buzz Machine Blog, has been dealing with these issues. In a recent post entitled “Downbeat,” he reveals the dark inevitability of these changes, the out of work journalists that it is [...]

By: Print vs web row misses the point « Reportr.net

Print vs web row misses the point « Reportr.net — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:28:22 +0000

[...] Downbeat Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)UK’s Guardian gears up for Web 2.0Newspaper dumps print editionElection Day Newspapers Going for $1,000 on eBayThe Media Equation – A New Jersey Newspaper Shuns the Web, and Thrives – NY… No Comments Leave a Commenttrackback addressThere was an error with your comment, please try again. name (required)email (will not be published) (required)url [...]

By: Le Big Z

Le Big Z — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:45:34 +0000

just a little note on the side: when reading your articles in the reader, there are massive problems with where the quotes start and where they end.. you will recognize it if you try e.g. this one in google reader.
(no problem to go on your site & give you a little more ad $, but just so you know..)

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:07:15 +0000

Wait…

By: Dance on their graves, Elf-Man

Dance on their graves, Elf-Man — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:27:16 +0000

I'm reminded of Warren Beatty's invitation to Pauline Kael. Where's your re-invented newspaper, Jeff? Oh.

By: John Welsh

John Welsh — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:37:52 +0000

As a B2B editor, I was always suprised that journalists could write about a business sector that was under pressure from the economy or the web and not see the connection to the health of their own title. Indeed, they would often write that some profession was hopeless at embracing the web though be hesitant to write for their own magazine’s website. There was only so much lateral thinking you could do before cutbacks did it for you.

By: Martin Langeveld

Martin Langeveld — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:27:40 +0000

That paper cited by Carr is a weekly. For a while I was a board member of the National Newspaper Association, the “other” organization, which represents mostly weeklies. I don’t know that anyone has done a survey, but a good fraction of those papers don’t publish their news online, using the same “why would I give it away free” philosophy. In general, the NAA’s members still claim to be doing well. I posted about this a while back: http://newsafternewspapers.blogspot.com/2008/09/somewhere-they-are-still-reading.html . The advantages these papers have is that being small, they’re very much in touch with their communities, and they can innovate on a dime, if they really have to, compared with the big papers where change is often hampered by size, inertia and bureaucracy.