The Christian Science Monitor is becoming the first national newspaper to quit a printed edition of their newspaper. They will move the focus to online content instead. More info at csmonitor.com.
How soon will it be for other major newspapers to follow suit? What does it mean for journalism?
TV is feeling left out of the popularity of social networking.
The movement was pioneered in part by videogame-console makers such as Microsoft Corp. as a way to connect hard-core gamers for competitive matches, and it is gaining momentum as those companies and others seek to entice a broader audience to chat with friends, share photos and recommend movies and music over their television screens.
Analysts say social networking has the potential to play a key role in shaping what people watch and do on the biggest screen in their homes. They say that eventually could pay off — perhaps in terms of subscription revenue or advertising — for the companies involved in these mostly nascent ventures, as efforts to marry the Internet and the TV gain traction.
Will this work? What do you think about interactive TV?
I’ve long been a proponent about interactive TV news. My plan is a simple one and would work much in the way that TIVO works. The viewer would input his or her favorite topic areas. The TV news station would shoot a “top stories” segment and then every other story would be shot/packaged individually with the anchor intro and tag. These stories would be categorized by the stations into topic areas. Then every viewer would have a customized newscast when they wanted at just the push of the button based on the choices they set in their TIVO-like box or the way Comcast On Demand works. Customized yet doable.
Gotta love juicy TV news anchor gossip! Here’s a goodie from MediaBistro.com today, who in turn foudn it at the New York Post:
New Philly TV News Scandal (P6) - Another lurid scandal involving news anchors in Philadelphia has erupted – and it promises to be juicy. Lori Delgado, the sexy morning news presenter on WCAU-TV, quit this week — days after she and the station were hit with a legal notice from the NBC-owned channel’s ex-afternoon anchor, Vince DeMentri, that he intends to sue the station for slander.
What will the newspaper of the future look like?
According to the American Journalism Review it will look like this:
A smaller, less frequently published version packed with analysis and investigative reporting and aimed at well-educated news junkies that may well be a smart survival strategy for the beleaguered old print product.
Read the rest of the AJR article HERE.
This is a great topic for discussion for newsrooms (newspaper and TV) and in college classrooms. How would students change newspapers to save them with the threat of the internet? How will the changing media affect TV news and what would students do to make it competitive?
