This Week in Review: Institutions and news innovation, and papers’ paywall experiments roll on
Plus: A legal test of 'Are bloggers journalists?', Facebook's Timeline and Subscribe, and the rest of the week's future-of-news reading.
Is The American Press Another Institution That Needs Government Help?
We've been hearing about the American press' survival crisis for quite a while now. Amid assertions that "journalism is dying," various publications have refocused their mission or resorted to paywalls. Today in the Wall Street Journal, Columbia University's President Lee Bollinger makes the case for a different kind of solution: government involvement.
Media Frets About Its Own Future at SXSWi 2010
Ink-stained wretches, it's not just you! The social media and Twitter elite fret about the future of journalism too — and wonder how it will survive the digital revolution. At SXSWi, there was no shortage of panels obsessively deconstructing this topic (and tweeting about it, natch).
Panel Nerds: More Media Clairvoyance From Dan Rather and Crew
In yet another Future of the News discussion, it would be far too easy to retread the same tired information. But with leaders in three separate media branches -- including Dan Rather and the New Yorker's Jane Mayer -- at his disposal, moderator Victor Navasky didn’t limit the agenda for the evening. Instead, he kept...
