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Perfectly easy way to rescue newspapers (October 16 2012) Perfectly easy way to rescue newspapers (October 16 2012)

David Leigh the 66 year old British journalist, author and the investigations executive editor of The Guardian is the subject of an article by Dan Hind on Aljazeera titled ‘Reincarnating the newspaper industry’. Hind states “…Leigh set out what he called a “perfectly easy way to rescue newspapers, ensure media plurality and monetise the web” – add a £2 ($3.2) monthly levy on broadband fees and thereby raise around £500 million ($807 million) a year. The money would then be distributed to news operations “according to their share of UK online readership”. …Revenues from print sales are in steep decline, he said, and paywalls won’t work in the UK, because of the BBC. …The lean pickings from web advertising on a free newspaper site will only pay for a fraction of the high-quality investigative journalism that commercial newspapers generate. We’ll just get the timid BBC on the one hand, and superficial junk on the other.” …here’s what I see as the main problem with Leigh’s suggestion. The distribution mechanism he proposes will not serve the stated aim. …While some good investigative journalism does appear in British newspapers, it accounts for only a tiny fraction of content as a whole. Much more space is given to celebrity gossip, chitchat from Westminster, lifestyle features, sports coverage, scare stories about immigrants, half-baked nonsense about the economy and similar “superficial junk”. …Leigh’s levy would go to those news operations with large online readerships, regardless of the amount of “high-quality investigative journalism” they commissioned and published. This will tend to reward, and preserve, incumbency.”

 

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Jill Ellen Abramson the 57 year old newspaper reporter and editor has been appointed the first female Executive Editor to The New York Times. Abramson first joined The New York Times fourteen years earlier after nine years with the Wall Street Journal as the bureau deputy chief in Washington. Abramson had overcome serious injury from a 2007 motor vehicle accident when struck as a pedestrian by a truck, only blocks away from The New York Times headquarters, to return to her duties as the Managing Editor. Broadening her skills, Abramson temporarily took on the task to help successfully evolve the newspaper to a digital online operation. Abramson was the Washington bureau chief at the time of the Jayson Blair scandal which resulted in the resignations of her predecessor Executive and Managing Editors. Inspired by Jack Shafer ow.ly/5hgVi image source insumisas ow.ly/5hhik In my house The Times substituted for religion (June 18 2011)

Jill Ellen Abramson the 57 year old newspaper reporter and editor has been appointed the first female Executive Editor to The New York Times. Abramson first joined The New York Times fourteen years earlier after nine years with the Wall Street Journal as the bureau deputy chief in Washington. Abramson had overcome serious injury from a 2007 motor vehicle accident when struck as a pedestrian by a truck, only blocks away from The New York Times headquarters, to return to her duties as the Managing Editor. Broadening her skills, Abramson temporarily took on the task to help successfully evolve the newspaper to a digital online operation. Abramson was the Washington bureau chief at the time of the Jayson Blair scandal which resulted in the resignations of her predecessor Executive and Managing Editors.

 

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