The Changing Newsroom | Project for Excellence in Journalism ...
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Saved by 8 people (-1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-07-21
- Waynesutton on 2009-02-03 - Tags no_tag
- Rltrzes on 2009-01-15 - Tags research , news , multimedia , web , newspaper , english , reading , statistics , journalism
- Jlackeycns on 2008-08-08 - Tags no_tag
- Airesearch on 2008-07-22 - Tags no_tag
- Drfeld on 2008-07-22 - Tags journalism , media , newspapers , internet , web , online , research , news , newmedia , culture
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aptures an industry in the grips of two powerful, but contradictory, forces. On one hand, financial pressures sap its strength and threaten its very survival. On the other, the rise of the web boosts its competitiveness, opens up innovative new forms of journalism, builds new bridges to readers and offers enormous potential for the future. Many editors believe the industry’s future is effectively a race between these two forces.
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Fully 85% of the dailies surveyed with circulations over 100,000 have cut newsroom staff in the last three years, while only 52% of smaller papers reported cuts.
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Papers both large and small have reduced the space, resources and commitment devoted to a range of topics. At the top of that list, nearly two thirds of papers surveyed have cut back on foreign news, over half have trimmed national news
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New job demands are drawing a generation of young, versatile, tech-savvy, high-energy staff as financial pressures drive out higher-salaried veteran reporters and editors.
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Amid these concerns—and despite the enormous cutbacks and profound worries—editors still sense that their product is improving, not worsening.
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How such upbeat assessments stand up in the face of new staff cuts and more pessimistic economic projections is unclear. Several editors lamented the attendant loss of time to organize a thoughtful attack on a story, to think through precisely why a story is being done or how to make the story more meaningful. “There is a huge pressure to rush to publish,” one editor added in a comment on the survey.
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Overall, newsroom executives say they feel broadly unprepared for the changes
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