Newspapers still valuable to majority of Americans
metroWNY Jan. 5, 2011 The future of the print media – specifically newspapers – remains less than clear as the new year dawns. Print journalists face increasing competition from electronic media ranging from talk radio to nationwide television networks and the websites they manage.
Eighteen Months Later: What’s Happened to Seattle P-I Journalists
Posted on Safety Net By Ruth Teichroeb, Jan. 3, 2011 Six months after Hearst shut down the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I surveyed my former colleagues to find out how they were faring. Most were still looking for work, reeling from the shock of losing their jobs in the depths of the Great Recession and grieving the [...]
Wall St. Spanked Debt-Laden Publishers in 2010
Alan D. Mutter Reflections of a Newsosaur blog, Jan. 3. 2011 Wall Street repudiated the shares of debt-heavy newspaper companies in 2010 at the same time the stocks of generally less leveraged publishers advanced. In a decidedly mixed year for the 11 remaining publicly traded newspaper companies, share prices last year soared as high as [...]
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Is there life – or work – after newspapers? A lot of us are in the process of finding out. Because it’s generally a somewhat lonely endeavor, it struck me, in January 2010, that it might be comforting – and possibly very productive – to go through it together.
Displaced Journalists is a community – our community – where we find common ground, where we can begin to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and get on with our lives and livelihoods. [more]