Memphis-readings
Key readings for Journalism That Matter: The Memphis Sessions
1. Geneva Overholser: "A Manifesto for Change"
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Overholser-manifesto
2. Chris Peck et al.: "The Next Newsroom"
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/jtm/jtm-white-paper.pdf
3. Len Witt: "Constructing an open-source framework for reinventing journalism"
Optional readings for the Memphis Journalism that Matters sessions
- Cole Campbell on sustaining inquiry which leads to action -- PDF DOWNLOAD
- Richard Harwood remembers Cole Campbell
- Memorial Saturday, 1 p.m., UNC
- New York Times obit: "One of the first editors to embrace the idea that journalism should help readers to be engaged citizens."
- Tom Stites (BIO) -- two essays:
-- On who will step forward to support journalism essential to democracy
-- On how America's newspapers have lost touch with mainstream readers
- Tom Mohr on what newspapers must do to survive (from Editor & Publisher)
http://future-of-journalism.blogspot.com/2006/12/newspapers-tom-mohr-cronkite-asu.html
COMMENTS: http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2006/09/ethan_kaplan_on.html
- David Zeeck at Poynter's "Future of Newspapers" seminar in May 2006
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=102188 (links at bottom lead to other thoughtful pieces)
- Mark Glaser: Traditional newsrooms still need to walk the talk
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/12/your_take_rounduptraditional_n.html
About the changing focus of print vs. web
- David Hiller: LA Times must break it on the web; analyze in print
http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2007/01/lat.php
- Rex Smith of Albany Times-Union in effect agrees with Hiller
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=551172
- LA Times' Tim Rutten reviews the "new" Wall Street Journal
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-rutten6jan06,1,6619340.column
Also recently noted
Malcolm Gladwell on his blog (reprinting from The New Yorker) on
why newspapers should be pushing not abandoning investigative journalism
http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2007/01/enron_and_newsp.html
"We are dismantling the institution of newspaper journalism precisely at the moment when it seems to be of greatest social value."
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070108fa_fact
- Barry Parr on newspapers focusing on non-breaking news as a strategy
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/parr/archives/2007/01/a_winning_web_n.html
- Paul Gillin: The death of America's metro newspapers and birth of thousands of news-shares?
http://netb2b.com/article.cms?articleId=30158
- Newspaper editors/publishers don't know what to expect (World Editors' Forum)
http://www.editorsweblog.org/print_newspapers/2006/12/newspaper_executives_cant_predict_future.php
- Is Gannett's focus on over-45 for print at odds with Newspaper Next advice?
http://newshare.typepad.com/newshare/2006/12/gannett_to_focu.html
- Doug McGill's "Syllabus for journalism as a healing art"
http://www.mcgillreport.org/healingart.htm
- Jeff vonKaenel on why he thinks users will pay for news on the web
http://future-of-journalism.blogspot.com/2006/12/future-of-newspapers-will-people-be.html
- Is Gannett in Indianapolis proposing newsroom employees do "advertorial" work?
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12129 and http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12128
- Paperless newspapers: The Telegraph PM edition and Illiad links
http://future-of-journalism.blogspot.com/2006/12/links-newspapers-for-web-only-telegram.html
- Roger Plothow: Smaller, family, 'red state' papers are doing just fine -- why?
http://mediagiraffe.blogspot.com/2006/12/idaho-publisher-finds-smaller-papers.html
- Do newspapers need to become "information valets"?
http://future-of-journalism.blogspot.com/2006/12/web-seen-as-gradually-killing-bundled.html
http://newshare.typepad.com/newshare/future_of_newspapers/index.html
- Columnist at environmental site "Grist" on abandoning print
(he's willing to pay for online news) http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12/22/8952/6389
