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| Press Publish 5: C.W. Anderson on metro newspapers’ decline Posted: 06 Feb 2013 06:30 AM PST
Chris — you’ll know his byline as C.W. Anderson, since contemporary American journalism and technology is silly with Chris Andersons — has written a book that looks at how the Philadelphia media market was affected by (and responded to) the rise of online journalism. He spent months inside the city’s major newsrooms, at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, and among the bloggers, startups, and other new players introduced to the media ecosystem by the web’s lowering of barriers to publication. How did reporters’ conceptions of themselves change with the new competition for their audiences’ attention? How did they differentiate what they did from what others did — and who was willing to steal a few tricks from the bloggers? How did journalists take advantage (or not) of new opportunities to collaborate?
Aside from this book and his other writing at Nieman Lab and elsewhere, Chris has been part of two of the most important state-of-the-news reports of recent years: 2009′s Downie-Schudson report (Chris was a research assistant on it) and 2012′s “Post-Industrial Journalism,” coauthored with Emily Bell and Clay Shirky. By day, he’s an assistant professor of media culture at CUNY’s College of Staten Island, a visiting fellow at Yale’s Information Society Project, and a Knight Media Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation. This was a fun one — give it a listen. ListenOr listen in your browser: [See post to listen to audio] Show notes C.W. Anderson Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age Community organizing — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chris’s articles for Nieman Lab Alternative media — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Objectivity (journalism) — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Ethnography — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Haddon Township, New Jersey, “where community thrives” The Wired City, Dan Kennedy’s upcoming book on local journalism in New Haven, Conn. Herbert J. Gans, author of the classic ’70s news ethnography Deciding What’s News Alex Jones’ “iron core of journalism” Nieman Lab gloss on “Post-Industrial Journalism” Mass media — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Publics — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My talk at Harvard Law in 2010 on journalists’ conception of aggregation Philly.com, the joint site of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News NetNewsCheck, Dec. 10: “Inquirer, Daily “Tuesday Q&A: Bill Marimow on his new old job, and the future of the Philadelphia Inquirer” Charlie Beckett on networked journalism PBS MediaShift’s Collaboration Central Jeff Jarvis, 2007: “Cover what you do best. Link to the rest.” Photo by Jessica Kaufman. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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Chris and I had a good, vigorous discussion about how his thinking about traditional media institutions evolved during his research, about how Internet-native approaches to news had trouble penetrating | You are subscribed to email updates from Nieman Journalism Lab To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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