Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The State of Journalism, Present and Future

There's an interesting column by David Carr in today's New York Times that recaps a lot of what we have discussed in class recently:

"It’s been an especially rotten few days for people who type on deadline. On Tuesday, The Christian Science Monitor announced that, after a century, it would cease publishing a weekday paper. Time Inc., the Olympian home of Time magazine, Fortune, People and Sports Illustrated, announced that it was cutting 600 jobs and reorganizing its staff. And Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the country, compounded the grimness by announcing it was laying off 10 percent of its work force — up to 3,000 people.

Clearly, the sky is falling. The question now is how many people will be left to cover it."

The Online Journalism Review has a three-part series about the state of independent local online news. Part two focuses on MinnPost, but mentions yours truly and the Twin Cities Daily Planet.




1 comment:

John said...

Interesting piece. Its irritating that they didn't include a link to TCDP. But not to worry, I sent them one via the comment section. So there.