{"id":12686,"date":"2013-10-30T10:12:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T14:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12686"},"modified":"2013-10-30T10:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T14:39:31","slug":"the-death-and-rebirth-of-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12686","title":{"rendered":"Jan Schaffer on the death and rebirth of journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(near Tarrytown, NY) If you want to know the latest development in journalism that relate to civic engagement and democracy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-lab.org\/about\/jlabstaff\">Jan Schaffer <\/a>from the J-Lab is the person to ask. Here (shared with her permission) is her <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Pace-Pocanticct.2013.pptx\">PowerPoint presentation entitled &#8220;The Death and Rebirth of Journalism.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big trends she sees are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Metro dailies&#8217; disappearing portfolios (Not only do the metropolitan daily newspapers lack revenue, but they are not covering foreign news, national news, or arts &amp; culture; and their suburban readers don&#8217;t need their city hall coverage)<\/li>\n<li>New owners \u2013 new rules? (The new newspaper owners made their money in technology and may expect entirely different models.)<\/li>\n<li>Media entrepreneurship is at an all-time high (Lots of startups and new models)<\/li>\n<li>Calls for new models of journalism (from reporters themselves)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And her reasons for optimism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investigative news startups (ProPublica, the Investigative News Network, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Indie news startups (lots of small online news sites, often devoted to neighborhoods, sometimes profitable.)<\/li>\n<li>Niche sites (specialized, expert sites on politics, arts, climate, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Tech sites with news portfolios (companies like Yahoo are bringing real journalists onboard)<\/li>\n<li>Non-narrative news (games, interactive maps, searchable databases as alternatives to news stories)<\/li>\n<li>Soft advocacy sites (advocacy organizations for issues like smart growth or school reform that start producing genuine news without making it all narrowly subservient to their agenda.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Much more detail in the PowerPoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(near Tarrytown, NY) If you want to know the latest development in journalism that relate to civic engagement and democracy, Jan Schaffer from the J-Lab is the person to ask. Here (shared with her permission) is her PowerPoint presentation entitled &#8220;The Death and Rebirth of Journalism.&#8221; The big trends she sees are: Metro dailies&#8217; disappearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-criticism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12686"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12703,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686\/revisions\/12703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}