Remember the newspaper? It used to come knocking at the door around six in the morning. It kept Dad busy for the first hour of the day. It made great wrapping paper and cushion for fragile pottery. Most of all, however, the newspaper did the most important job of keeping its readers informed. “A newspaper […]
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Death of the newspaper: what is killing it?
Posted by: carriedelisio | December 7, 2011 | No Comment |As with most new technology, there are those who love e-books and those who are scared of them. It’s been said that e-books have lowered the bar on the word count of books. Books are apparently getting shorter. I found in “Replacing textbooks with e-books may be a mistake”, when reading online people have shorter […]
Borders is gone. The question is why? Well for most, it’s not a question. It’s a warning. A warning to show that in this age of technology you have to adapt — or be left in the dust. A Wall Street Journal titled “One Chapter Closes…As New One Is Opening” describes the fall of Borders. […]
When Norman Mailer, Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher established the Village Voice, they didn’t have experience in the newspaper business. Fancher was the publisher of the Voice, Wolf the editor and Mailer was officially a silent partner. According to Menand, Wolf later said “If we had known more, we certainly would have suffered less.” Nonetheless, […]
Before going into the death of Borders and the changes in the ways we publish and consume written works, it is important to understand how we got here. It all goes back to 618 where the Chinese — not Gutenberg — invented block printing to reproduce copies of the tipao. The tipao were official newsletters […]
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Tags: Andrew Knight, Before Borders, Lexie Ramage, Publishing, Superblog
Tags: Andrew Knight, Before Borders, Lexie Ramage, Publishing, Superblog
I will admit it; I was a late-comer to Twitter. I still don’t use it to post my own tweets, but it fascinates me to read. Being obsessed with celebrity culture, I’ve been most drawn to Twitter’s most famous tweet-o-philes. I started with Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk), moving on to John Mayer (@johncmayer), and then comedians […]
Have you heard of The Village Voice? It began as a neighborhood paper in Greenwich Village but ultimately changed journalism. As Louis Menand explains in “It Took A Village: How the Voice changed journalism,” The Village Voice changed what it meant to be a journalist. The Village Voice was founded by Norman Mailer, Dan Wolf […]
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Tags: Heather Blevins, History, Journalism, journalism history, news history, Superblog, The Village Voice, timeline
Tags: Heather Blevins, History, Journalism, journalism history, news history, Superblog, The Village Voice, timeline
In the early morning hours of Tuesday November 15th, Will Wheaton, former actor (Star Trek, Stand By Me) and current independent blogger, tweeted from Zucotti Park in New York: Isn’t it against the law for the NYPD to bar credentialed press from entry to Zuccotti and #occupywallstreet? What are they trying to hide? His tweet was […]
Impact of technology on journalism part II: the Internet
Posted by: jsharma1 | November 22, 2011 | No Comment |Super blog: The legacies of Henry Luce and Harold Ross
Posted by: sarahe | November 22, 2011 | No Comment |
Harold Ross and Henry Luce may not ring a bell but The New Yorker and Time magazine probably do. Ross and Luce were publishing rivals that shared one common goal: success.
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Tags: 1920s, Harold Ross, Henry Luce, rivalry, Sarah El-Hage, Superblog, The New Yorker, Time magazine
Tags: 1920s, Harold Ross, Henry Luce, rivalry, Sarah El-Hage, Superblog, The New Yorker, Time magazine