Newspaper Industry

Newspapers and Their Quest for the Holy Grail

By Michael Riley• Sensing the Change• December 15, 2006

Putting the Web first might be ‘the most difficult transformation in our mindset, but we should go ahead and flip our world on its head.’ Read more

Taking the Big Gulp

By Jane Ellen Stevens• Exploring New Connections• December 15, 2006

‘The Web is its own medium with its own characteristics. It is not newspapers. It is not TV news. It is not radio.’ Read more

The Challenge of Community Building

By Gary Kebbel• Building Community• December 15, 2006

Knight Foundation asks whether the community role newspapers play can be replicated by new media and offers to support those who show it can. Read more

Risk-Adverse Newspapers Won’t Cross the Digital Divide

By Chris Cobler• Sensing the Change• December 15, 2006

‘Newspapers lacked the external vision necessary to see the vast range of opportunities created by the Internet.’ Read more

Toward a New Journalism With Verification

By Bill Kovach• Finding Our Footing• December 15, 2006

‘This journalism must recognize that the distribution, the organization, and the sources of our work must change.’ Read more

Meshing Purpose With Product

By Philip Meyer• Pushing Forward• December 15, 2006

Heeding the warning against forcing ‘existing quality standards into new technology,’ a journalist is cautiously optimistic about the digital future. Read more

Inviting Readers Into the Editorial Process

By Ellen Foley• Exploring New Connections• December 15, 2006

In online polling about story selection, editors at the Wisconsin State Journal learn that ‘the readers who vote consistently do choose weighty stories.’ Read more

The Quickening Pace of Change

By Ellen Foley• Exploring New Connections• December 15, 2006

In March 2005, David Stoeffler, then vice president of news for Lee Enterprises, issued a challenge to the company’s newspaper editors: Give me ideas that will revolutionize your paper. RELATED ARTICLE … Read more