By now you’ve probably read about the shuttering of the Rocky Mountain News, which foundered under rising costs and falling revenues.
The Denver Post put together a photo tribute to is scrappy rival.
Staff at The Rocky produced their own thoughtful wrap video.
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
The Rocky’s closure means Denver now has just one [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: business, closure, newspaper, Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post, video
Someone once said the first rule of blogging is to do it regularly. The second is not to begin with an apology if you go silent without a heads up.
Screw the rules.
For the last few weeks, I’ve been asking a lot of people how news organizations can do a better job of providing and being [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Making Money
The news business, and it is a business, is getting squeezed. There are those who think “big J” journalism is a waste of effort and resources at a time when we can count exactly how many people spend time reading the stories, watching the videos, and clicking around on our interactive features.
Strapped for cash, the [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Making Money
Tagged: business, conferences, NAB, speech, TV
You may have spent several minutes (or hours) of your day sifting through the rants on AngryJournalist.
One of the main problems I see is it’s a lot of venting and no resolution.
Businesspeople will tell you complaining will only get you fired. Raise a complaint and propose a solution, though, and the people in charge — [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: business, discussion, future
Steve Outing, “Stop the Presses” columnist and online media consultant just launched a new site aimed at those looking for ideas to increase news website readership and make money.
Not all of Outing’s recommendations are earthshaking, but the comments will probably prove to be the true goldmine.
On a post about showing the numbers associated with “most [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Making Money, Social Media
Tagged: business, ideas, Steve Outing
By coincidence, Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine was also thinking money today.
In his latest post, Jarvis suggests everyone take a step back and try to summarize specific problems your business faces before charging ahead with strategies and solutions.
Engineers use this “define the problem, then create solutions” approach, Jarvis notes. So do lawyers and economists, and they’re [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Making Money
Tagged: business, BuzzMachine, conferences, netJ