Category: Future of Journalism
Torrington Register Citizen Now Carrying CtWatchdog Column
We are thrilled that the Torrington Register Citizen today began carrying our Sunday CtWatchdog print column.
The Register Citizen is now the third daily newspaper – along with the Bristol Press and New Britain Herald to publish the column.
Next week several weekly newspapers in the Farmington Valley are scheduled to carry the column – Avon News, [...]
Hartford Courant Charges More For Public Notice Ads Than LA Times Does, Lawyer Says
Revelations about The Hartford Courant’s high rate structure for mandatory public advertisements continue, with an East Hartford lawyer claiming that he had to pay a higher fee for a Courant legal notice than for any other newspaper – including the Courant’s sister paper – The Los Angeles Times.
You can read attorney Ryan McKeen’s blog, which [...]
Newspaper Bailouts: The Truth Comes Out, Ct Newspapers Need Paid Public Notices To Survive
Despite that fact that Connecticut newspapers in general are avoiding writing about what their publishers consider to be a huge issue for democracy, the truth is starting to come out.
CtMirror.org, a new online political site started by my friends who got the ax from The Courant, had in interesting interview this month with the executive [...]
NY Times To Charge For Internet Access
According to New York Magazine’s internet site New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. “appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website”
“After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper, the choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted [...]
Media Fact Checking: Rachel Maddow Shows The Way
So much journalism has become he said/she said, with no one bothering to check the facts, or even what he or she said before this.
Thanks to digital records, shows such as Rachel Maddow’s are doing this. And it is a revelation. I’ve thought for a long time that all print and broadcast media should do [...]
The Richness of Traveling via the Hulu.com Hoop
Television is the new newspaper. Soon, you can bet, television will go the sad way of the daily paper.
Prospects are ajumble as fewer and fewer people turn to the networks or even cable for their entertainment or news at the moment that the cable or networks are presenting it. Who but the insomniacs [...]
DC Regulators Host Debate On News Industry’s Future
Washington, DC ─ More than 70 communications experts this week debated how to protect consumer interests despite the decline of traditional newspapers and broadcasters.
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