Monthly Archives: September 2013

Oldest newspaper in the world will only be available online

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Lloyd’s List, the oldest newspaper in the world, created in 1734, will now only be available online after December. According to sources of the British newspaper, less than 2% of the readers read the paper edition.

Like other newspapers, Lloyd’s List, began as a sheet of paper hanging on the wall with naval industry information and schedules of naval vessels.

More than 270 years later, the Lloyd’s List objective remains the same, only the technology changed.

The online edition, the only one that increased the number of readers and presents some profitability. Today, the newspaper has 16,600 subscribers, according to the Financial Times.

Source: Público

RIPTIDE: A project that explores changes in journalism

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Captura-de-pantalla-2013-09-09-a-las-15.57.52Harvard University has an ongoing project, RIPTIDE, which aims to bring together the testimonies of some of the most important directors, editors and journalists to explain the changes in this profession.

Part of the objective of this initiative of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard, is to explain when and how the prominence of the Hearsts, the Pulitzers, the Sulzberger, the Grahams, the Chandlers, the Coxes, and other families responsible for the news business, was exceeded by Gates, Page and Brin and Schmidt, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Case, and Jobs.

Three veterans of journalism and the media in the United States, John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz, and Paul Sagan interviewed dozens of people who played important roles in the intersection of media and technology.

“Riptide is the result: more than 50 hours of video interviews and a narrative essay that traces the evolution of digital news from early experiments to today. It’s what really happened to the news business“, says the introduction of this project.

Source: Nieman Lab

Newspapers may be dying, but the Internet didn’t kill them

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George Brock, professor of journalism at City University in London, recently released a book, “Spike the gloom – journalism has a bright future”, recognizing that it is an established fact that newspapers are disappearing due to an evolutionary process of journalism that has happened before, but that is not the fault of the Internet. According to the author, the television was responsible for the disappearance of more newspapers.

Brock also warns that, recurrently journalism is confused with newspapers which, for him, are distinct things which should not be confused.

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