Comments on: The Future of Journalism http://www.cc-chapman.com/2012/the-future-of-journalism/ Boston Author, Speaker and Photographer C.C. Chapman Fri, 17 May 2013 14:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: noyesjesse http://www.cc-chapman.com/2012/the-future-of-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-52824 noyesjesse Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:36:00 +0000 http://www.cc-chapman.com/?p=4478#comment-52824 This was, and continues to be, my favorite summation of everything that’s wrong with the news industry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI

As a former reporter in Boston, it’s easy to see how young, idealistic journalists can quickly burn out when forced to stand in street, desperately seeking one or two workable quotes about the latest salacious gossip about a Kardashian from ordinary people who for the most part couldn’t give a damn, when there are hurting, hungry, unemployed people who would just love to tell their story — if only that sold papers or made ratings.

]]> By: The future of journalism — KevinBehringer.com http://www.cc-chapman.com/2012/the-future-of-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-52814 The future of journalism — KevinBehringer.com Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:22:38 +0000 http://www.cc-chapman.com/?p=4478#comment-52814 [...] CC Chapman: But, with all this change I firmly believe that we still need journalism. We need long form, highly researched and fact checked stories on all sorts of topics. We need photo journalists capturing the moments of our time and shining a light on things people don’t want us to see. Audio and video reports from all corners of the globe and close to home need to continue to be produced and shared. [...]

]]> By: Tam http://www.cc-chapman.com/2012/the-future-of-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-52813 Tam Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:43:00 +0000 http://www.cc-chapman.com/?p=4478#comment-52813 CC, have you heard of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard?  My friend, Josh, is the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab.

From their site: In 2008, the foundation established the Nieman Journalism Lab,
which aims to identify best practices in journalism and emerging
business models at a time when the industry is experiencing rapid
change. The project illustrates how new media tools can help print
journalists successfully make the transition to digital journalism while
maintaining high journalistic standards.

I don’t know if that’s something you’d be interested in getting involved with, but since it’s in your backyard, it might be worth taking a peek at. (If you do reach out to Josh, tell “Cajun Boy’ that Tam says hi.)

]]> By: Sean Williams http://www.cc-chapman.com/2012/the-future-of-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-52812 Sean Williams Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.cc-chapman.com/?p=4478#comment-52812 CC – Add to your list of must-view the 1970′s movie “Network.” It accurately represents the result of a) corporate ownership of TV, and b) what happens when news becomes a profit center instead of a public service. Anyway, I too decry the intellectual bankruptcy that seems to infest news, particularly broadcast news. My broadcast instructor was a former reporter (the only radio reporter on live when RFK was shot), and even 25 years ago he inveighed against the triviality of broadcast news. He told an anecdote about the debut of KFWB-AM, the first all-news radio station, saying that he and his colleagues looked forward to having the time to cover stories in depth. Instead, we got “you give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world.”  Now, it’s “short attention span theater” 24/7.  I think the only reasonably serious news program left on TV is Jim Leherer on PBS. 

As for print — it must migrate from time sensitive news to analysis. Everything timely is on the interwebs in an instant. As a result, however, it’s got a better than even shot at being wrong. The crowds aren’t very wise, nor do they make even a pretext of objectivity. My j-school instructor said it wasn’t really possible to be objective, but we had an obligation to be fair, and to bring in as many sides to an issue as there were. (See Bernard Goldberg for the concept that every issue had only two sides…)

Journalism will continue, but maybe the ProPublica model will win out (non profit and philanthropically funded), or maybe enough people will sign up to pay. Or, we’ll continue our current downward spiral, growing less and less informed with substance and more and more by ephemera (See Harold Innis…)
Sean

]]> By: Marc Zazeela http://www.cc-chapman.com/2012/the-future-of-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-52811 Marc Zazeela Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.cc-chapman.com/?p=4478#comment-52811 CC. Great perspective. I hope that modern journalists don’t cave in to the pressures of the Internet where they will create “headline” journalism, much like the tabloids.

Sadly, we are becoming a society that relishes snippets of information without much context. I sincerely hope that true journalism survives, but I am not sure if we are smart enough to really want it to?

Cheers,
Marc

]]> By: Nick Allen http://www.cc-chapman.com/2012/the-future-of-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-52809 Nick Allen Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:50:00 +0000 http://www.cc-chapman.com/?p=4478#comment-52809 I miss the days when the morning news shows were about the news rather than who is sleeping with who.

]]> By: Nick Allen http://www.cc-chapman.com/2012/the-future-of-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-52810 Nick Allen Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:50:00 +0000 http://www.cc-chapman.com/?p=4478#comment-52810 I miss the days when the morning news shows were about the news rather than who is sleeping with who.

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