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Journalism In Transition. Media Consumption Timeline. Trends: Shift Happens The Market Abhors A Vacuum It’s Not Just Newspapers The Evolution To Real-Time News. 1. Trends: Shift Happens.
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Trends: Shift Happens • The Market Abhors A Vacuum • It’s Not Just Newspapers • The Evolution To Real-Time News
As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.- Elisha Gray
Read A Print “Newspaper” Yesterday 38% Pew, Jan 2010
Read A Print “Newspaper” Yesterday 26% Pew, 2010
Read An Online Newspaper Yesterday 9% Pew, 2006
Read An Online Newspaper Yesterday 17% Pew, 2010
Operating Profit Margin, Public Newspapers • Mid-1980s : 22% • 1998 : 21% • 2005 : 19% • 2008 : 10.8% (1st 3 qtrs)
I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying -- it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.- Molly Ivins, columnist, 2006
Abbreviated Blogging Timeline • 1999: Yahoo! buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million individual Web sites (most abandoned!) • 1999: the Poynter Institute starts the “MediaNews” blog • 2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000 blogs worldwide in total • February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs • 2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger • 2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com; >1B monthly pageviews; Yahoo! shutters GeoCities
Where Are We Today? • WestSeattleBlog • ProPublica • Spot.us • NYT, WSJ, NPR et al on iPhone, iPad, Android
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. - Henry R. Luce, founder, TIME
Real-Time Reporting • The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998; “Dispatches from the Coast” is the first known use of blog to cover a breaking news story.
A New Genre • D versus @ versus RT • Follow versus Friend (“block”) • Favorites • Broadcast (one-way) versus Converse (two-way) • Nibble v Full Course • Many v Few • TinyUrl et al
It’s so much easier to ask a question to my locals on Twitter than to call each and every one of them. I just wouldn’t have time to call that many people.- Kate Martin, blogger and education reporter, Skagit Valley (WA) Herald
Twitter & Iran • Amplified voices of dissent • Facilitated misinformation (intentional and unintentional) • Incomplete story • Emotional • Triggered MSM response
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. – Ellen Goodman, columnist
Twitter (Facebook, G+) is a conversation spacenot a publication.
Final Thoughts • The mass audience is dead • Publishing is free (push-button) • The cost of dealing with atoms goes up as readership goes down • Today’s professional listens as well as talks • This is not a cyclical change
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.- Alvin Toffler
Addenda: Photo Credits • Photos are iStockPhoto or fair use: • Crowd, http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/ • Megaphone, http://warkscol.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/superchick_megaphone_logo_hi.jpg • Kent State, photo John Paul Filo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings • Tank Man, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/ • Death of Neda Agha-Solton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan
CC License: share&share alike, attribution, non-commercial Kathy E. Gill • http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill or @kegill • http://wiredpen.com/ and http://slideshare.net/kegill