Comments on: The Case Against Newspaper Companies http://davetroy.com/posts/the-case-against-newspaper-companies Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:56:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: augustajobs http://davetroy.com/posts/the-case-against-newspaper-companies#comment-625 augustajobs Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:40:07 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=581#comment-625 Thanks, for sharing your thoughts and website.i am very thankful to you. Thanks, for sharing your thoughts and website.i am very thankful to you.

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]]> By: augustajobs http://davetroy.com/posts/the-case-against-newspaper-companies#comment-601 augustajobs Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:40:07 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=581#comment-601 Thanks, for sharing your thoughts and website.i am very thankful to you. Thanks, for sharing your thoughts and website.i am very thankful to you.

]]> By: augustajobs http://davetroy.com/posts/the-case-against-newspaper-companies#comment-600 augustajobs Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:38:11 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=581#comment-600 Thanks, for sharing your thoughts and website.i am very thankful to you. Thanks, for sharing your thoughts and website.i am very thankful to you.

]]> By: What happens after newspapers? Reporting, apparently, still gets done » Nieman Journalism Lab http://davetroy.com/posts/the-case-against-newspaper-companies#comment-493 What happens after newspapers? Reporting, apparently, still gets done » Nieman Journalism Lab Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:37:03 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=581#comment-493 [...] after the event, local entrepreneur and tech evangelist Dave Troy shared his take on the mood of the room and what, ultimately, disappointed him about the e...: Just as the failure to prevent the September 11 attacks was attributed to a “failure of [...] [...] after the event, local entrepreneur and tech evangelist Dave Troy shared his take on the mood of the room and what, ultimately, disappointed him about the e…: Just as the failure to prevent the September 11 attacks was attributed to a “failure of [...]

]]> By: subelsky.myopenid.com/ http://davetroy.com/posts/the-case-against-newspaper-companies#comment-429 subelsky.myopenid.com/ Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:00:19 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=581#comment-429 Maybe these people would be better served to think about publishing as merely the delivery system, separate from the creation of the news. Newspaper companies currently think the only way to make money is to deliver news. Is there a way to make money from creating news and making it as widely available as possible on as many platforms as possible? That's what they seem unwilling to ask themselves. Maybe these people would be better served to think about publishing as merely the delivery system, separate from the creation of the news. Newspaper companies currently think the only way to make money is to deliver news. Is there a way to make money from creating news and making it as widely available as possible on as many platforms as possible? That’s what they seem unwilling to ask themselves.

]]> By: newsfeed http://davetroy.com/posts/the-case-against-newspaper-companies#comment-422 newsfeed Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:06:50 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=581#comment-422 Failure of imagination? Yes. Many of the journalists and writers who have been working in newspaper companies simply have no idea of how to go about setting themselves up as an online-based organisation. In the short term, I think there will be a relative dearth of well-researched online news on a local scale, and I stress 'well-researched'. But in the medium term economic power will move towards online investigative reporting and those people currently harping about the damage caused by the death of newspapers to local politics can again rest easy. Failure of imagination? Yes. Many of the journalists and writers who have been working in newspaper companies simply have no idea of how to go about setting themselves up as an online-based organisation.

In the short term, I think there will be a relative dearth of well-researched online news on a local scale, and I stress ‘well-researched’. But in the medium term economic power will move towards online investigative reporting and those people currently harping about the damage caused by the death of newspapers to local politics can again rest easy.

]]> By: chrisashworth.org/id/ http://davetroy.com/posts/the-case-against-newspaper-companies#comment-416 chrisashworth.org/id/ Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:26:12 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=581#comment-416 It flabbergasts me to watch this pattern repeated. I know it shouldn't by now, but it does. It seems like every publishing industry is absolutely determined to believe that they are not dying. Music, books, newspapers, television, whatever. But the barrier to making stuff and distributing stuff is dropping too fast for a publisher to serve a (traditional) purpose much longer. The thing that frustrates me about these discussions is that these folks appear to be focusing on all the things that are not -inherently- valuable about news. It seems to me that news does have a ton of inherent value. People want news! People care about what's happening! Our species builds our entire mental life around stories, so this news stuff has a deep hook into us. The underlying gold mine can't be tapped out, but we sure as heck can let the machinery that mines it rust and decay into a dysfunctional heap. All this effort to get the rusty heap running again. Yarg. Watching the agony of the newspapers also makes me afraid of our own future selves. Will all the young, open-minded entrepreneurs of today turn into the old, close-minded industry barons of tomorrow? How do we keep ourselves ready to tear apart a dead solution and rebuild a new one? At least there will always be young, hungry, unencumbered entrepreneurs to fill that role. It's just sad to see people left behind when they have so much they could offer a new solution. It flabbergasts me to watch this pattern repeated. I know it shouldn’t by now, but it does.

It seems like every publishing industry is absolutely determined to believe that they are not dying. Music, books, newspapers, television, whatever. But the barrier to making stuff and distributing stuff is dropping too fast for a publisher to serve a (traditional) purpose much longer.

The thing that frustrates me about these discussions is that these folks appear to be focusing on all the things that are not -inherently- valuable about news. It seems to me that news does have a ton of inherent value. People want news! People care about what’s happening! Our species builds our entire mental life around stories, so this news stuff has a deep hook into us. The underlying gold mine can’t be tapped out, but we sure as heck can let the machinery that mines it rust and decay into a dysfunctional heap.

All this effort to get the rusty heap running again. Yarg.

Watching the agony of the newspapers also makes me afraid of our own future selves. Will all the young, open-minded entrepreneurs of today turn into the old, close-minded industry barons of tomorrow? How do we keep ourselves ready to tear apart a dead solution and rebuild a new one? At least there will always be young, hungry, unencumbered entrepreneurs to fill that role. It’s just sad to see people left behind when they have so much they could offer a new solution.

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