This Friday, I'll be posting about a literal broadside fired by the CSS Alabama 150 years ago, during the U.S. Civil War.
But this past week, a national journalism organization fired it's own broadside (figuratively speaking) about what it describes as "Post-Industrial" Journalism. In part, the Knight Center for Journalism in The Americas report concludes:
The evidence can be found in several Alabama cities, places where huge expensive printing plants are printing a lot fewer newspapers. The biggest papers in the state are cutting the number of days they print and trying to make it as online products.
And although TV News has long been, and still is, the main source of local news for Americans, it too is adapting. The soon-to-open digital news facility for the Bahakel pod of Montgomery TV stations-- CBS-8, ABC-32 and CW-22--- is a part of that evolution.
[PLUS: Chicago TV stations were scrambling to cover a plane crash on a highway Friday morning... warning viewers about it...till they discovered the "accident" was staged for a TV show.]
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of www.timlennox.com]
But this past week, a national journalism organization fired it's own broadside (figuratively speaking) about what it describes as "Post-Industrial" Journalism. In part, the Knight Center for Journalism in The Americas report concludes:
The problem legacy news organizations faced...(in the past two decades)... wasn’t competition but revolution. They assumed that new technology would raise rather than lower ad revenue, or that it would deliver more control to the publisher rather than to the reader. This was consonant with everything that had happened up to 1992, but it wasn’t what was about to happen as the Internet started giving everyone a lot more freedom.
The evidence can be found in several Alabama cities, places where huge expensive printing plants are printing a lot fewer newspapers. The biggest papers in the state are cutting the number of days they print and trying to make it as online products.
And although TV News has long been, and still is, the main source of local news for Americans, it too is adapting. The soon-to-open digital news facility for the Bahakel pod of Montgomery TV stations-- CBS-8, ABC-32 and CW-22--- is a part of that evolution.
[PLUS: Chicago TV stations were scrambling to cover a plane crash on a highway Friday morning... warning viewers about it...till they discovered the "accident" was staged for a TV show.]
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of www.timlennox.com]
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