The Los Angeles Times Media Group will axe 250 jobs, including about 17% of its editorial staff, and publish 15% fewer pages. About 150 jobs in the Los Angeles Times newsroom will go – some will be compulsory redundancies – after owners Tribune Company said advertising revenue had plunged 15% in the first quarter. The [...]
Permalink...Roy Greenslade / The World Newspaper Congress and the World Editors Forum concluded last night with a spectacular gala dinner here in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was surely fitting that the main entertainer was a comic illusionist because, over the course of four days, the twin conferences suggested that publishers and editors are living in parallel [...]
Permalink...Aπό τον Juan Antonio Giner Yesterday, I started my presentation at the WAN Congress with these screens: “I AM NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE I AM WORRIED ABOUT THE PRESENT — I AM NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS I AM WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM” And I ended with this one: “IF [...]
Permalink...του Stephen Brook Juan Antonio Giner, vice president of the Innovation consulting group, presents to WAN his list of 20 ways to kill a newspaper, writes Stephen Brook. 1. be dull and boring 2. change slowly 3. print yesterday’s news 4. don’t take risks 5. expect different results by doing things the same way 6. [...]
Permalink...Aπό τον Juan Antonio Giner From yesterday’s World Editors Forum first session: When asked about the multimedia capabilities of their own newsrooms, 54% of survey respondents said tht their newsroom is already integrated. Well, cooperation, darling, is not integration. What we need is NOT more “convergenza parallela” but fully and real integration. John Zogby, the [...]
Permalink...Kalle Jungkvist chaired the digital round table of the World Editors Forum looking at growing multimedia audience and revenues. Journalism.co.uk talked to him after the session about the success of his newspapers web TV operation. In your opening you said that Aftonbladet was a video rich site and that you’re a rival to Swedish TV [...]
Permalink...By Frank Ahrens Washington Post Staff Writer More than 100 Washington Post reporters, editors, photographers, artists and other journalists will take early retirement packages offered by the company as a way to cut costs, reducing the newsroom staff by at least 10 percent. A number of familiar bylines will leave for good or no longer [...]
Permalink...Από τον Juan Antonio Giner The newspapers of the future? The future of newspapers? Well, let’s start the revolution as Mao said, with one first step. And my “revolutionary” suggestion is very easy: No more boring front pages. After we do that, we can do more, of course, but this is very crucial. Many of [...]
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20lexeis - 3. July 2008
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