The Media: Another Funeral in Philadelphia
They had another funeral at the once mighty Philadelphia Inquirer this week, this time the layoffs of 71 reporters and editors.
I worked 21 years for the Inky’s rival, the Philadelphia Daily News, but my heart is just as broken as if I had lost a dear friend – or in this case nearly six dozen of them.
Joe Gandelman, the maestro of this fine blog, can relate. Joe also toiled for Knight Ridder, the newspaper chain that owned the Inky and News until it lost its mojo, and has recently learned that one of his best friends, a publisher for another major chain, is again looking for work.
This is yet another manifestation of the sea changes roiling the newspaper business because of outside forces, as well as the failure of newspapers themselves to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
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I used to work as a newspaper reporter. It sucked so bad.
It’s interesting though that as newspapers die, written journalism does not, given blogs etc. But online journalism pays less and is even more expendible of a product than is print media.
the lesson here is that being a journalist while an important gig, is a thankless and stressfull job (save for the few elite and presitigous glamour posts on the national scene)
http://ragsly.blogspot.com
Sadly, newspapers are probably doomed. Anything written yesterday just seems like, well, yesterday’s news in this information-dense age of instant updates. Amazing that the MSM keeps their format of pushing a thin stream of stories instead of the kind of richness that Internet sources offer. BTW, for those interested, a great global news source and very concentrated news weekly is The Week.
good riddance
I used to be a newspaper reporter, too. It’s going to be an interesting transition, and I’m more than a little afraid. I don’t see how the closing of newspapers will do anything but hasten the transition from news to newstainment. Real news requires reporting, and that requires up-front payment and an investment to research the kinds of stories that may not, at first, be in the center of the popular mind.
Blogs are all well and good, but niche publications will never replace mainstream, broad interest newspapers/news sites. That said, there are many changes still to come in the news industry.