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Canadian web marketing agency Dialect has created a website billed as 'an online memorial to the traditional media industry.'  Traditional Publishing, RIP aggregates headlines which document "the sad decline of traditional publishing."

According to Press Gazette, one of the sites creators, Nik Szymanis, commented that "the headlines are presented starkly and without comment, giving a sobering view of the current state of media."

The current Israeli-Gaza conflict has proved ground-breaking in terms of the way that news is being spread. For a start, Israel has blocked foreign journalists from entering Gaza since launching its air attacks on December 27, so although Al Jazeera has been reporting extensively as it had correspondents already inside, as does the AP, many media organizations have no reliable source of independent information.  It is the perfect time for blogs, Twitter, and other forms of citizen journalism to show their merits.

 

Gannett has announced that it will begin rolling out a single website, ContentOne, for all of its 85 newspapers beginning tomorrow, according to journalism.co.uk.  In December, Gannett had announced its initial plans for ContentOne.   

According to Gannett Blog, most of the content will be generated by USA Today and individual local newspapers will add the website to their own. 

Forecasts for 2009 are, unsurprisingly, relatively pessimistic for traditional media and more positive for new media developments. But not all commentators were as determined as Jeff Nolan that "if 2008 was bad for newspapers, 2009 will be devastating," and many saw hope in the possibility of changes in content and format.  

Qatar based news network, Al Jazeera has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson.  The partnership will allow Al Jazeera to provide built-in AJ RSS feeds on Sony Ericsson phones in the Middle East and North Africa, according to journalism.co.uk.

The RSS feeds will offer daily international news updates in both English and Arabic on certain models of Sony Ericsson phones.

Executive Editor of PBS's MediaShift Mark Glaser offered a "Guide to Alternative Models for Newspapers" in response to all the problems currently "plaguing" the business of daily newspapers in America.  He offers a selection of solutions: some which are already being used, some brand new.

First come blog networks, which aggregate blogs written by staffers, freelancers and readers.   Glaser cites LATimes.com as a site which has used blogs to help it drive more traffic, which could of course lead to more advertising revenue. 

Next is classified networks; Glaser explains that free online services such as Craigslist have usurped much of newspapers' classified ad businesses.  In order to entice people back, he thinks they will need to "super-charge listings and add extras galore."

Slate's Jack Shafer points out that the reason the world is bombarded with news of the newspaper industry's woes is because "they have easy access to a megaphone."

The seeming non-stop coverage as newspaper after newspaper folds, goes bankrupt, or cuts staff and print editions.  The media industry has "harbored" the "self-pitying" journalists, through Internet blogs and newspaper columns.  Some papers seem to be banking on the demise, devoting sections to coverage of the industry's struggle.

The rise of the digital age is the "underlying cause of grief" for newspapers, and is the reason that many others are without a job, Shafer says.  Only, the journalists of the world get a larger soapbox on which to stand.  Shafer wonders how often have they lamented the demise of other services, products and industries.

Quebec's free daily, 24 heures (24 hours) has launched a website.  In addition the paper has launched a mobile site, accessible at m.24heures.ca.

The new site aims to offer readers the possibility of following the news throughout the day.

Source: Infopresse via IFRA

According to FollowtheMedia, the recently announced content sharing deal between Reuters and Politico could prove to be underestimated.  FTM predicts that it is a deal that should "really worry the Associated Press" and that CNN's proposed wire service "should now just fade away."

Reuters and the AP are the most popular news agencies, however, Reuters is used mainly outside of the United States.  The deal with Politico will now introduce Reuters to the American newspaper market, which could severely hurt the AP.  The AP has recently been suffering from declining subscriptions due to a number of issues.

Blogger Rick Anderson delves into the topic of how the newspaper model will transform, adapt and evolve into a new medium.  Gathering opinions from Seattle newspaper industry members, Anderson writes, the "mainstream newspaper of tomorrow sounds a lot like the alternative weekly of today."

The old newspaper model is "dead man walking," according to biz journalist Bill Richards.  Newspapers "haven't had to innovate for 100 years," said publisher of the Stranger, Tim Keck, and therein lies the problem. 

Search engine giant Google announces that its newly launched Chrome browser is no longer in "beta," reports AFP. Google may keep its software in beta for relatively long periods, but the firm says that Chrome met stability and performance aims in a brief time frame.

In a memo to staff obtained by Politico, Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth discusses the long-term strategy of the paper: to make its product "indispensable" to its customers.

The strategy includes three-pillars, to focus the paper "on Washington, for Washingtonians and those affected by it," to provide "utility, engagement and convenience for local readers" and "extend the brand with new products and new platforms." 

Dow Jones & Co. has announced that it has added new content and multimedia features to Dow Jones Factiva.  The additions include 4,000 blogs and 12,000 websites, which brings together more than 25,000 businesses and news sources, according to Editor & Publisher.  The new content is designed to reflect the growing influence of social media around the globe.

The goal of the enhancements is to "provide a comprehensive local and global view that addresses the content needs of our customer base and provides researchers and knowledge workers with the information they need to make informed business decisions," according to Dennis Cahill, chief product officer at Dow Jones. 

Josh Korr of Publishing 2 believes that "newsrooms have to rethink the kind of stories they cover and the way they tell those stories, or all the new technologies could be wasted on news that readers don't find relevant or interesting."

In an age of Twitter, blogs, the Internet and mobile access at our finger tips, it seems that most people feel obligated to write on everything because they might miss out on the "big news."  Instead they are missing out on the process of filtering news and information.  By not filtering and being more punctilious about selecting what to report on, many non-news items flood newspapers and the Internet.

Bill Keller, the New York Times' executive editor, told NPR's Steve Inskeep that, "there's a real shortage of the kind of information that I would call quality journalism."

In a comment about the financial health of the newspaper industry and the rise of blogs, "Good journalism does not come cheap. And, therefore, you're not going to find a lot of blogs or nonprofit Web sites that are going to build a Baghdad bureau."

He also said that the venerated newspaper is, "Competing for audience with different people." Keller went on to say the Times sometimes gets "tarred with the condition of the industry that we're in."

Source: NPR