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The core newsroom’s reluctance to support the digital strategy. This is interesting as my impression is much of the newspaper industries decline as a failure i
by hartror 16y ago
The core newsroom’s reluctance to support the digital strategy.
This is interesting as my impression is much of the newspaper industries decline as a failure in business leadership and that the newsrooms had just been following orders or unable to effect change.
This suggests that newsrooms, Le Monde's at least, have been resisting the move to more online readership. I wonder what the reason is, there must be an entrenched section of old school editors and writers who still don't understand the online economy. Not something I expected of journalists.
- rbancroft 16y agoI find this hard to believe as well, but for different reasons. I had an online subscription to Le Monde for years even though I wasn't even living in France. It was tiered but I thought it was extremely advanced in terms of features offered. In addition to web formats, I was also able to download PDF versions of the printed newspaper. It wasn't exactly cheap but I was happy to pay it. I only wish my local newspapers now were of that quality and had the same online services.
- adw 16y agohttp://withpretext.com/post/673179066/on-canaries-and-the-journalist-coalface http://withpretext.com/post/673179066/on-canaries-and-the-jo... If you're forward-thinking and flexible, the voluntary redundancy packages are going to look way more attractive than if you aren't.
- dagw 16y agoI wonder if it is a battle of article format rather than platform. I know a couple of people on the tech side of some newspapers and they say that there is a push for shorter, punchier articles from some of the web editors since they believe that people won't read long articles on a screen. On the other hand the print editors want longer more in-depth and detailed articles since they feel that is an area where print can beat on-line. So if the core newsroom prefers to produce longer and more detailed articles, then I can understand them being reluctant to support the digital strategy. Not because they are against digital per se, but because they are against the form that news tends to take on the web.
- eli 16y agoIt's tough to figure out exactly what that statement means, but it would not surprise me to hear journalists resisting writing SEO-friendly headlines and linkbait articles about the French equivalent of Ron Paul.