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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tells WSJ's Jeffrey Trachtenberg the new Kindle is "designed for people who really love reading." Kindle could even help the ailing news business, said Larry Dignan in ZDNet's Between the Lines blog. "I prefer the paper-based newspaper. The Web can't replace the feel of ink and newsprint. To someone younger the news on paper is just silly. If the Kindle bridges those two audiences, it may just help newspapers," he said.


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Journalism Revolution
Is Just Beginning

By Marshall Loeb
Nov. 1, 2007

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Most revolutions peter out like wet firecrackers after a short period of time, and most of the leaders who pushed an upheaval eventually wake up to the fact that it was not very radical after all. But forget about all that when contemplating the fate and future of the media in the next -- presumably -- tumultuous decade.

The rough shaking up that the media have suffered through in the past 10 years or so, and the different ways in which people now produce and consume information, qualifies as a real revolution. And it is just beginning. As the politically incorrect balladeer Al Jolson used to promise his audiences, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

The leading professionals and academics tend to echo Professor Sree Sreenivasan of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism: "We're going to see as many and as dramatic changes in the next 10 years as the last 10."

The vital signs of many media read like the obituaries. At the incredible shrinking newspaper, hawkers have a hard time even trying to give subscriptions away for free and circulation has declined for four straight years. Newspaper advertising sales are also down, and in the next several years they will be replaced by the Internet as the leading advertising medium. That will bring still another revolution in the newsrooms and the printing plants, with blood all over the balance sheets.

But the vertiginous shift from print to digital (meaning: without paper) will really accelerate when electronic screens may become roughly the same size as an 8 1/2 x 11-inch sheet of paper. That is likely to happen sooner than you might think. According to some experts, in just a few short years most of us will have affordable, high-quality screens powerful enough to transmit any image that a conventional notebook computer screen transmits today, but small enough to comfortably take everywhere.

As Adam L. Penenberg, a leading critic and professor of Journalism at New York University, writes: "Screens are improving at breakneck speed. A wide-screen flat-panel television that cost $10,000 six years ago can be had for less than $700 today. Meanwhile the Apple iPhone, with its elegant touch screen, makes Web surfing a joy. In the next few years the price of screens like these will plummet, and they will become ubiquitous -- as thin as wallpaper, mounted on walls, tables, even T-shirts."

When this occurs, you'll be able to carry around a library full of books, as well as digital versions of countless richly colored magazines.

And this, says Penenberg, is likely to spell the end for newspapers: "One thing is certain: Within the next few years a major newspaper will shut down its paper edition and become strictly an online publication. After this first domino falls, the rest will follow."

Penenberg adds that: "There could also be an additional bonus to the consumer. In the future, news, magazines and books may all become free. With so much content at your fingertips and no barriers to purchasing it, the price should come down -- like it has for newspapers. The New York Times in print costs $1.25; it's free on the Web."

In this fast changing environment, journalists will have even fuller careers. They will have to become proficient, not just with words, but with different mediums. They will begin working on a story much as they always have, by reporting it, often at the scene. Then they will write it. Next, they will edit it for pace, style and accuracy. When all of that is done, they will produce the story for video, serving as broadcaster or anchor. They may even do a podcast for those who prefer listening to reading and watching.

Meanwhile, it will become increasingly the norm for their editors to be preparing both digital and print versions of the story -- with the faster closing web edition taking precedence.

If you still find it hard to believe that Web content will eclipse traditional print, Sreenivasan points out, "The Los Angeles Times says it is a Web newsroom first and a paper publication second. What people are doing is they're turning to print publications for content and analysis -- not breaking news."

These heady prospects may well be the main reason that so many journalism professors say that more and more of the brightest and best students are applying for journalism school now.

They can see that, contrary to most revolutions, the one now sweeping the media is powerful, pervasive and permanent. It is also inevitable and unstoppable, because it is driven by the spread of technology, which is bringing us the new machines, and the spread of globalization, which is bringing us new markets.

The upshot is that news, information and analysis will be spread faster and more authoritatively to audiences around the world. And that is bound to be beneficial for humankind.

Reporter Orli Van Mourik contributed to this story.

Papers melt away
a little at a time

Sunday, July 23, 2006

By Dick Feagler
Cleveland Plain Dealer Columnist

The New York Times saw fit this week to print its plans to lay off 250 employees and shrink the size of the paper by 5 percent. Some of that will come out of the news hole.

The news hole is the space left in the paper when all of the ads are in place. The leftovers are where the news fits in.

The Plain Dealer's news hole isn't what it used to be, either. On Tuesday, this paper downsized a little, too - not in staff, but in physical size. Although the pages are narrower than they used to be, the editors are still managing to shove in the same amount of content.

In a lot of places, though, news is on a diet. Papers across America are getting lighter in weight, size and content. It costs a lot of money to chop down trees and grind them up to make newsprint. Newsprint is what we call the paper we print on. After we buy newsprint, the editors have to decide what to do with it to sell it for more than we paid for it.

I'm one of their answers, but only one. For many of you, I live in the paper you find on your driveway. So do Sam and Regina, and Tom and Kevin and a couple of Elizabeths. Maybe you read us and maybe you talk about it, and then you make up your own mind.

Our business used to be run by the paper boys. They would wheel their bikes up to the drop-off point, where a guy whose name was always something like Duke would toss bundles of papers off a truck. And then, in the pre-dawn chill, this army of kids would stuff them into every milk chute in town.

Remember milk chutes? Remember paperboys on Schwinn bikes? Remember when the Sunday paper weighed 10 pounds? Well, maybe.

But now, if you say to your wife, "This paper seems thinner, it's curling up and crawling right up my arm," you're right. That's the cost of newsprint. And that's a change in the newspaper business. Wherever this business is heading, it's getting there fast. And it will never be the same again.

Everything changes. The bicycle kids are gone. Now a guy in an SUV pitches your paper out at 4 a.m.

Local TV pretty much cooked my old afternoon paper, the Cleveland Press. And then local TV got fried by the news cable networks.

This took a couple of decades. In those years, the news became a branch of show business. The old "who, what, where, when and why" were lost. On television, nobody cares about any of that. They just babble on and on.

Of course they never miss the teases: "Will Israel invade Lebanon? Coming up in the next hour."

And at the end of that hour, they trot out some ex-general who hasn't the slightest idea what Israel will do. TV is mostly show and not much tell.

In the middle of this terrible and volatile war, the cable TV channels have sent their stable of stars to go stand someplace - in front of a howitzer, maybe. I don't need any more anchormen telling me that it's loud when a howitzer goes boom. We know that.

Having worked in television, I know that a good TV reporter could stand in front of an orange and describe its ripening. ("Nothing going on right now, Bob. So back to the studio.")

But I digress. Back to the story about the shrinking newspapers.

Their reduction in size will mean a loss of space for news.

Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, said the 5 percent reduction in news space would require tighter editing and putting some news into digest form. "That's a number that I think we can live with quite comfortably," he said.

The trouble is, the Times was never about "digest form." If it goes there, we'll all be in digest form. In fact, as you know, we are already.

Frantic to keep print alive, newspapers around the country have tried to woo readers with flash-and-dazzle layouts and headlines. It's almost as if they're trying to be the E channel or MTV on paper.

Newspapers, as I knew and loved them, are on the way out. The new form can't be faster than TV, so it has to be smarter and better. But there's a risk.

Maybe readers don't care. Can't be bothered. Other things on their minds.

That's why the Times will try a digest. The Times has decided there's no profit in intelligence. Who doubts that?

Contact Dick Feagler at:

dfeagler@plaind.com, 216-999-5757


Planned media job cuts
up 88 pct in 2006

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007, 12:29 pm ET

By Joanne Morrison
and Michele Gershberg

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of planned job cuts in the U.S. media sector surged 88 percent last year and that trend will likely continue as readers shift from print to online services, a study on Thursday showed.

For all of last year, the media industry announced 17,809 job cuts, up sizably from the 9,453 cuts announced the prior year, according to the job outplacement tracking firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

That was the biggest tally of announced layoffs for the industry since 2001, when the dot.com collapse was under way.

The trend is expected to continue this year, according to John Challenger, chief executive officer at the Chicago-based firm, which tracks planned layoffs, not actual layoffs.

"Already this year we have seen job cuts announced by Time Inc and the New York Times Company," Challenger said. "These organizations will continue to make adjustments as their focus shifts from print to electronic."

For the first half of this month, there have been more than 2,000 planned job cuts announced. However, in terms of total job cuts, the downsizing in the media sector pales in comparison to the auto industry, which saw 158,766 job cuts in 2006.

Still, newspaper publishers, broadcasters and other media companies have been cutting jobs and reevaluating their business models as a growing number of Americans turn to the Internet for news and entertainment.

Since the beginning of 2007, top U.S. magazine publisher Time Inc. said it would cut 289 jobs, the New York Times Co (NYSE:NYT - News) announced plans to shed 125 jobs and close foreign bureaus for its Boston Globe newspaper.

But print media is not alone in the changes. NBC Universal, home to the NBC television network and Universal Studios film unit, announced late last year a $750 million overhaul that includes cutting nearly 700 jobs to invest in its faster growing digital operations. NBC is controlled by General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE - News)

"Until they can figure out a way to make as much money from their online services as they are losing from the print side, it is going to be an uphill battle," said Challenger of planned cuts across the media sector.

Internet companies also are not immune to the changes. Time Warner Inc's (NYSE:TWX - News) AOL Internet unit is in the midst of cutting 5,000 jobs, or 26 percent of its workforce, as it shifts its business to a model based on Web advertising.

As readers spend more time on the Web, advertisers are not far behind in moving their marketing budgets online. While most companies in the industry are building up their Internet sites and distribution to capture the growth, that has yet to offset weakness at their mainstay print or broadcast businesses.

Internet ad spending is forecast to rise 13 percent in 2007, while network television advertising is seen almost flat from a year ago and newspaper advertising is expected to drop nearly 3 percent, according to media tracking firm TNS.

Not only are newspapers vying with other news organizations for audience share, they are competing with bloggers, industry experts and gossip sites, Challenger said.

"This dilutes their audience and dilutes the amount of money they can charge advertisers, which currently is the primary source of revenue for online news sites, since most are not charging subscriber fees to access their content," Challenger said.

Bad News

As newspaper circulation figures recently experienced a 2% drop -- and should go down from here -- it doesn't make any sense why anyone wants to own newspapers right now, [Wall Street commentator Jim] Cramer said.

Cramer said when he started TheStreet.com, he did so because he had always wanted to own a newspaper.

"But I was not going to brave print and distribution costs that made owning a paper way too expensive," he said, which is why he started the online paper.

People should not buy the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer, Cramer emphasized. "The apparatus for a paper could kill even the richest people."

"Young people don't care about papers," he continued. "They would rather have a paper on the Web."

"Stay away" from newspapers, Cramer warned, "and don't contemplate buying them."

-- Jim Cramer, TheStreet.com, 10/31/2006



Wage Survey: Low Starting Pay And Small Raises For Journos

Published: July 26, 2006 2:10 PM ET

CHICAGO -- On average, cub reporters at daily newspapers make less than $30,000 their first year, according to the most comprehensive industry report on salaries and compensation.

The 2006 Newspaper Industry Compensation Survey found that the average entry-level salary last year for the 521 dailies participating in the study is up 17.3% from 2001, but is still a humble $29,048, or 558.62 a week.

They'd be better off moving to the classified department, where the average salary for an inside sales rep last year was $36,077.

Sports editors were paid an average salary of $52,632 last year, up about 15.5% from five years ago.

Newsroom raises are slowing down, the report suggests. While the base pay of beginning reporters increased by double digits since 2001, the raise between 2004 and 2005 was just 2.1%, well under the inflation rate of 3.4% last year.

But that was on the higher end of newsroom raises, according to the survey, which is produced each year by the Inland Press Association.

Beginning copy editors, for instance, saw their pay increase just 1.5% on average last year. Experienced copy editors received an average increase of even less, 1.4%. Experienced reporters received an average 2.6% increase, while photo directors were up 2.5%.

Specific findings of the survey, in which papers are identified only by circulation range, are confidential and provided only to participating newspapers. The industry averages of a few representative newsroom and sales salaries were provided to E&P by Inland. Information on salary increases, which compare the same papers in the 2004 and 2005 surveys, appeared in the Inland's publication The Inlander.

In general, the survey found its better to be a manager when raises are being doled out. Top circulation managers, for instance, received an average 4% raise last year, and human relations department heads had no reason to squawk to HR: their base pay was up 4.5%.

The average daily newspaper publisher received a below-inflation raise in base pay of 3.1%, but total direct compensation, including incentives, actually declined on average by 0.3%.

If there was a pay winner on the paper, it's that guy who runs the Web site.

The Inland survey found that the average base pay for an online editor jumped 8.1%, and increased 8.8% in total direct compensation.

Inland has been running the compensation survey for 75 years. The industry-standard survey is co-sponsored along with Inland by Newspaper Association of America, International Newspaper Financial Executives, and the New England Newspaper Association.

--Editor & Publisher



More Than 2,000 Newspaper Jobs Lost in 2005

While no number will be entirely precise, a conservative estimate puts the total loss of newspaper jobs around 2,100 on the year. Below is a list of the major job cuts since Jan. 1, 2005:


TRIBUNE CO.
  • Newsday - 9/1 - 49 (buyouts)
  • Hartford Courant - 10/6 - 14 (companywide)
  • Baltimore Sun - 11/11 - 75 (12-15 newsroom; 5%)
  • Los Angeles Times - 11/16 - 85 (newsroom; 8%)
  • Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) - 11/16 - 12 (1.4%)
  • Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) - 11/16 - 8 (4 newsroom, 18 open positions)
  • Chicago Tribune - 11/16 - ~100 (likely less than 100; 3.3%)
  • Orlando Sentinel - 11/29 - 54 (33 open positions and 21 layoffs
  • Newsday - 12/02 - 112 (72 layoffs and the reduction of 40 open positions; no "news gathering personnel" were affected)
  • Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) - 12/02 - 50 (5% of its work force of 950)
  • Los Angeles Times - 12/05 - 110 (Chatsworth production plant closed)


    NEW YORK TIMES CO.
  • New York Times - 5/25 - 125 (all departments, 12 newsroom)
  • New England Newspaper Group - 5/25 - 65 (companywide)
  • New York Times - 9/20 - 250 (companywide, 45 newsroom)
  • New England Newspaper Group - 9/20 - 160 (35 in newsroom at The Boston Globe/20 in newsroom at Telegram & Gazette)
  • Regional Media Group - 9/20 - 80 (companywide)


    KNIGHT RIDDER
  • Philadelphia Inquirer - 9/20 - 75 (newsroom buyouts)
  • Philadelphia Daily News - 9/20 - 25 (newsroom buyouts)
  • San Jose Mercury News - 9/23 - 52 (newsroom buyouts; 16%)


    HEARST
  • San Francisco Chronicle - 8/1 - 120 (companywide)
  • Houston Chronicle - 8/19 - 125 (companywide, but newsroom and ad dept. spared; 7%)


    GANNETT
  • Green Bay (Wis.) News-Chronicle - 5/19 - 14 (ceased publication)
  • Journal News (White Plains, N.Y.) - 12/08 - 19 (all departments affected; 1.5%)


    OTHERS
  • The (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun/Paxton - 1/5 - 81 (17 newsroom; 23%)
  • Seattle Times - 1/14 - 99 (23 newsroom; 6%)
  • Dow Jones Consumer Electronic Publishing - 1/26 - 97 (due to Marketwatch acquisition)
  • Boston Herald/Herald Media - 4/4 - 35 (newsroom)
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Lee Enterprises - 8/22 - 130 (41 newsroom; 12%)
  • Birmingham (Ala.) Post-Herald/Scripps - 9/22 - 43 (ceased publication)
  • New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News/Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications - 11/30 - TBD (aims to cut 9% of 300+ employees through buyouts)

    --Editor & Publisher


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    Q. How come when I read a newspaper story on a topic I'm familiar with, it always contains errors?

    A. This requires a complex team effort, which I will explain by putting key terms in capital letters: First, the REPORTER gathers information by interviewing PEOPLE and trying to write down what they say, getting approximately 35 percent of it right. The REPORTER then writes a STORY, which goes to an EDITOR, who bitterly resents the REPORTER because the REPORTER gets to go outside sometimes, whereas the EDITOR is stuck in the building eating NEWSPAPER CAFETERIA ''FOOD'' that was originally developed by construction-industry researchers as a substitute for PLYWOOD.

    The EDITOR, following journalism tradition, decides that the REPORTER has put the real point of the story in the 14th paragraph, which the EDITOR then attempts to move using the ''cut and paste command,'' which results in the story disappearing into ANOTHER DIMENSION, partly because the EDITOR, like most journalists, has the mechanical aptitude of a RUTABAGA, but also because the NEW COMPUTER SYSTEM has a few ''bugs'' as a result of being installed by a low-bid VENDOR whose information-technology experience consists of servicing WHACK-A-MOLE GAMES.

    So the REPORTER and the EDITOR, who now hate each other even more than they already did, hastily slap a story together from memory, then turn it over to a GRAPHIC DESIGN PERSON who cannot actually read but is a wizard on the APPLE MACINTOSH, and who will cut any remaining accurate sentences out of the story to make room on the page for a colorful, ''reader-friendly'' CHART, which was actually supposed to illustrate a story in an entirely different SECTION. -- Dave Barry



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    The news business is "in the middle of an epochal transformation, as momentous probably as the invention of the telegraph or television," according to a landmark study released by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. "Journalism is not becoming irrelevant. It is becoming more complex." -- USA Today 3/15/04
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    The birth and spectacular growth of the Internet have been accompanied by the last rites pronounced over the impending death of words printed on paper. One inventor, Ray Kurzweil, who works with devices for the blind, has written that by 2030 molecule-sized brain implants receiving images and words will eliminate the need for texts. More typical was the 2001 prediction of Image Source Company CEO Ted Padova: "Personally… I believe that most of us will see near-extinction of printed works in our lifetime." -- Ben Bagdikian, Editor & Publisher 3/1/04
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    "They aren't universally poorly rewarded. But the entry levels are so much worse than lawyers and doctors. Civil service jobs are better. I think it's because the people who hire people at those levels can get people. Even after all these years, there is still a surplus of journalism majors. Journalism majors are usually terribly grateful to have a job anywhere." -- Prof. James Boylan, Columbia Spectator, 2/4/04
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    If papers hire at all next year, these are the kinds of positions they're likely to add: sales and editorial people to staff news enhancements or new publications. But, as public companies are likely to say at two major investor conferences this week, hiring will remain conservative next year -- despite signs that recovery is under way. Click Here.


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