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Newsrooms are converging on content and all pay out for the same thing

Guardian :: At the moment, the news industry is converging on content while each organisation shells out for its own overheads. Surely that is the wrong way round. Differentiation is needed – but so too may be some co-operation on infrastructure costs.

An opinion piece by Dan Sabbagh, www.guardian.co.uk

The print business is not your legacy, it’s your bank

Monday Note :: For quite a while, I’ve been advocating a newspapers price hike. My take: the news market is undergoing an irreversible split. On one side, digital distribution (on web, mobile and tablets) will thrive through higher volumes and deeper penetration; revenue is not easy to squeeze out of digital subscribers and advertisers but, as some consolation, serving one or ten million customers costs about the same.

Last week, my little solo tune about price hikes received independent support of people much better equipped to define prices and value.

"Why newspapers must raise their price" - A report by Frédéric Filloux, www.mondaynote.com

HT: Raju Narisetti, here

Newspapers are not your legacy, they are your bank: On why papers must raise their price goo.gl/vhsY9 #wef12 #wanifra #relevantreads

— Raju Narisetti (@rajunarisetti) September 3, 2012

Latitude News and PRX partner on an international news podcast

Nieman Lab :: Plenty of media organizations share the goal of putting more international news in front of American audiences. Maria Balinska takes that goal and tweaks it slightly for her startup, Latitude News: “What we want to be looking at are stories people in the United States can relate to in other parts of the world.”

A report by Justin Ellis, www.niemanlab.org

The rise of ad-hoc journalist support networks

PBS Mediashift :: Journalistic collaboration isn't just something that happens between newsrooms. Increasingly, journalists working outside of traditional news organizations are coming together to support each other in a range of ways, from offering safety advice when covering protests to sharing news tips, local resource recommendations and more.

A report by Josh Stearns, www.pbs.org

Ignored factchecks: Can the media stop politicians from misleading the public?

Columbia Journalism Review :: That’s the question on the minds of many journalists and commentators after Paul Ryan’s speech last night at the Republican National Convention, which continued the Romney campaign’s pattern of disingenuous and misleading attacks on President Obama. While Obama and his allies have made many misleading claims of their own, the frequency and repetition of the Romney campaign’s claims has been particularly striking.

[Brendan Nyhan:] Whatever campaigns may do, aggressive truth-telling is the right approach for reporters.

An essay by Brendan Nyhan, www.cjr.org

Mobile and non-mobile media users: How do they perceive the news media and journalists?

Reynolds Journalism Insitute :: A majority of respondents overall — mobile media users and non-users — shared a generally favorable opinion of professional journalists, when asked if they agreed or disagreed with a series of statements on a five-point scale. That’s the good news. The bad news, or shall we say the “more thought-provoking news,” is that respondents in both categories also were about equally conflicted in their attitudes regarding the mainstream news media and the transition to mobile digital news technologies.

Findings rjionline.org

Multi-screen world: Insights how consumers use different devices together

Google Mobile Ads :: How many times have you started reading an email on your phone while commuting, and then continued it on your laptop when you got home? Or perhaps you saw a commercial for a new car and then used your tablet to search for the specs and see it in action? If these things sound familiar, that’s because they’re all part of the new norm in multi-screen behavior.

Findings - googlemobileads.blogspot.co.uk

Overview/infographic: Understanding cross-plattform consumer behavior (PDF download link)

How many journalists are needed to cover this story?

News organisations are still wasting a lot of money for no reason.

Huffington Post :: I challenge every journalist in Tampa for the Republican convention -- every one of the 15-16,000 of you -- to answer this: Why are you there? What will we learn from you? What actual reporting can you possibly do that delivers anything of value more than the infomercial -- light on the info, heavy on the 'mercial -- that the conventions have become? Would you be better off back at home covering voters and their issues? Can we in the strapped news business afford this luxury?

[Jeff Jarvis:] You're living off the last dollars of your business. And for what? Tradition? Where has that gotten us?

An opinion piece by Jeff Jarvis, www.huffingtonpost.com

And Jay Rosen:

Well, there were 240 news organizations and 1500 journalists in Chile for the miners' rescue. No one had any idea why that many were needed.

— Jay Rosen(@jayrosen_nyu) August 26, 2012

Coming in the side door: The value of homepages is shifting

Niemanlab :: As with newspapers — which haven’t so much disappeared as been pushed off center stage — few are saying that homepages will disappear completely. But as more people enter news sites sideways — via search engines, links they see in emails, or via Facebook and Twitter — newsrooms are finding their homepages aren’t the starting points they once were.

The new role of homepages - A report by Adrienne LaFrance, www.niemanlab.org

Local news sites form new trade association

Columbia Journalism Review :: Next month, at the annual Block by Block conference for local news sites, around 100 independent publishers will celebrate the launch of a new nonprofit trade group that will offer support for the growing hyperlocal news industry.

Block by Block - Conference for hyperlocal news Sept. 13-15 in Chicago

A report by Hazel Sheffield, www.cjr.org