18 abril 2005

VITAMEDIAS

Internet's growth, innovation threatens newspapers: Newspaper publishers find themselves in a confounding position as readers continue to defect to the Internet.

Watergate journalist says media losing public's trust: Though the nation's newspapers are hardly faultless, Bernstein said television news had been taken over by an "idiot culture" that spends more time chasing celebrities than explaining life-changing events.

Publishers put bloggers between the covers: bloggers are jumping on the publishing bandwagon in a trend that industry insiders say benefits both writers and publishers.

For Every Story, An Online Epilogue: Via E-Mail and Blog, Anyone's a Critic
The growing tide of personal attacks by bloggers and e-mailers "can make you really paranoid," says New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney.

Speech by Rupert Murdoch to the American Society of Newspaper Editors: One commentator, Jeff Jarvis, puts it this way: give the people control of media, they will use it. Don?t give people control of media, and you will lose them.
In the face of this revolution, however, we?ve been slow to react. We?ve sat by and watched while our newspapers have gradually lost circulation. We all know of great and expensive exceptions to this ? but the technology is now moving much faster than in the past.