Tim Porter mit einer ausgezeichneten Analyse zur Zukunft der Print-Branche:

I didn't think, given the scrappy newsrooms from which I sprang, the day would come when I'd say the responsibility for the decline of newspapers as the principal platform for journalism is shared equally by the journalists and the publishers. But that day has come. Shame on you both.

Here is the litany of shame that echoes in newsroom after newsroom:

We don't have the money.
We don't have the time.
We don't have the people.
We have lousy editors.
We have lousy reporters.
We can't communicate.
We don't talk.
We don't listen.

Things were better when …

We had more people.
We zoned.
We didn't zone.
We had more money.
So-and-so was editor.
We did more (name your beat) reporting.
We did less (ditto).

Yes, my friends in the newsroom, there's less money and there are fewer people. That's not really your fault - although it wasn't TV news and the web and shifting demographics alone that drove the readers away. Boring stories, formulaic content and refusal to change with the times are all also culprits.

But, I am sorry, my friends in the newsroom, much of the rest is your fault. The journalism, the leadership, the mandate to reflect and engage your community, the necessity to make tough, but creative decisions in the face of conflict, as all industries must do from time to time - those are all your responsibilities and you have abdicated them.

[Via: Tim Porter - The Mood of the Newsroom ]

Das Echo blieb nicht lange aus, was Tim Porter natürlich zu einer Fortsetzung mit entsprechenden Kommentaren inspirierte: Mood in the Newsroom: A Nerve is Touched

ÖPDATE: Bei Jay Rosen - PressThink findet sich noch eine weitere Fortsetzung der Geschichte. (Jay Rosen hatte auch schon über den Eintrag von Porter geschrieben, siehe: Tim Porter Lets Out a Roar) Rosens zweiter Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Antworten von drei Journalisten zu Porters Vorwürfen: Mood of the Newsroom: Letters from Three Journalists [Via: PressThink]

Und auch Jeff Jarvis hat sich zum Eintrag von Tim Porter geäussert: The future of journalism is not its past [Via: BuzzMachine]

Artikel im Ecomnomist zum äusserst lesenswerten Speech von Rupert Murdoch, den er am 13. April vor der American Society of Newspaper Editors ASNE hielt:

The decline of newspapers predates the internet. But the second—broadband—generation of the internet is not only accelerating it but is also changing the business in a way that the previous rivals to newspapers—radio and TV—never did. Older people, whom Mr Murdoch calls “digital immigrants”, may not have noticed, but young “digital natives” increasingly get their news from web portals such as Yahoo! or Google, and from newer web media such as blogs.

Hier zum vollständigen Artikel: The future of journalism: Yesterday's Papers:
Is Rupert Murdoch right to predict the end of newspapers as we now know them?

[Via: Dan Gillmor ]