Print Media Deathwatch: Looks like Hearst is coming to grips with the idea that the traditional local newspaper is dead. They’ve laid off hundreds and shut down the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pinning their hopes for the news organization on a “new type of digital business,” creating a business focusing on community news and local business advertising. […]

Information released this morning by digital measurement company ComScore says that people’s use of mobile devices for accessing news and information on the Internet “more than doubled” from January 2008 – January 2009. Over a third (35 percent, or 22.4 million) of the 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices […]

Clay Shirky has published an interesting essay looking at the “unthinkable future” of news, where the Internet removes barriers to publishing and increases competition, making the traditional model of newspaper publishing beyond saving: If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There […]

Local news as we know it is dead. But that’s not the biggest problem facing newspapers today.  A bigger problem is that most readers are telling their local newspapers “I’m just not that into you”. According to the latest stats from Pew Research, fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper […]

Matthew Davidson, a blogging graphic artist and musician, made this great statement at his Stretta blog: Technology decimates media in the order of bandwidth. First, newspapers, periodicals, books. Text and pictures compress tightly, and are low bandwidth. Next comes audio. After that comes video. It’s a interesting statement, especially when you see the carnage going […]

The Guardian  – a UK news organization – today announced a new initiative to make its content and data for free and weave it “into the fabric of the internet”. The Guardian’s Open Platform launched with two separate content-sharing services, which will allow users to build their own applications in return for carrying Guardian advertising: […]

The problem with newspapers is that they’re stuck on the old model, where every newspaper covers everything. And the more important the story, the less efficiently it gets covered.

But, it’s not just newspapers, it’s local radio & TV, too.

Local media is dead. Radio, TV, newspapers – all of it.

Here’s why.

The final edition of the Rocky Mountain News is captured in this Vimeo video. After 149 years and 311 days, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition on February 27, “Stop The Presses” now sounds pretty pathetic. What newspaper do you think will go next?

In a bid to stay afloat in an industry in crisis, magazine and newspaper publishing giant Hearst Corp. is getting set to launch an “electronic reader” later this year, a device designed with periodical-reading in mind. Hearst publishes a number of titles, including magazines Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Esquire, and newspaper The San Francisco Chronicle. Fortune […]

The Commons Video is a 3 minute 46 second animation (licensed under CC BY), making the case for an expansive conception of “The Commons” as a means to achieve a society of justice and equality. From the video’s description: In a just world, the idea of wealth–be it money derived from the work of human […]