I read an article over at Mashable today, labelled New York Times Will Go Out of “Print” Sometime in the Future, which should come as no surprise, as most newsprint is likely to be extinct within a couple of decades, probably sooner. The “Gray Lady” will no longer be a physical newspaper, according to NYT’s publisher and chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. And furthermore:
“We will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD,” he said to attendees of the International Newsroom Summit.
That is all as one might …

Amid what up until recently was considered a newsprint crisis, commercial TV stations in Norway take drastic budget measures, of which TVNorge’s (TVNorway) appears overly dramatic, as it on Monday announced the shut down of its news, sports and weather forecast department, effective by the end of this year. The channel’s local programming for the Oslo area, OsloTV, is affected, too, taking effect on 19 June this year.
The decision won’t affect the number two commercial channel’s presenters, but third party provider Mastiff, in charge of content and production, took quite …

Amazon’s Kindle DX launch stirred enthused response in the media business the other day, which shouldn’t come as a surprise really, seeing how the old media for the time being seem to be on a desperate search for ways out of the current downturn.
The Kindle DX, Amazon’s generation 2 ebook board, with a larger screen, specially designed for newspapers, is by many expected to be the salvation for a newspaper business in utter distress. The very idea is, of course, brilliant. Save the forests and reduce costs! But is it …

About a week after New Year’s Eve, amid Israeli warfare in Gaza, I wrote a post on Palestinian blogger Sameh Akram Habeeb, whose life was in immediate peril as he remained at home to report on the Israeli advances.
Palestinian blogger Sameh Akram Habeeb (photo from Gaza today)
Needless to say, we were all severely shocked by the atrocities the Palestinians were forced to endure, even though most fled their homes to take shelter. Unlike Sameh Akram Habeeb, who provided us with the latest developments – a true and passionate journalist at …

Only weeks ago we saw proof that the onset of the long-awaited newsprint death already may signify a new era’s dawn, as the U.S. Colorado online only InDenver.com rose — or is about to rise — from the ashes of The Rocky Mountain News. Examples are abundant, and seen even in the farthest corners of the world, such as here in Norway, where we’ve seen the first newspapers tumble already, alongside crumbling media corporations.
In a global perspective we even see “the Gray lady” — The New York Times — struggle …

Tonight the London Frontline club debates press standards, self-regulation and public trust, asking: Is the press accountable enough?
The debate is chaired by Chaired by Steve Hewlett (The Guardian), with

Roger Alton (Editor of the Independent)
Steven Barnett (University of Westminster)
Albert Scardino (Journalist and MST board member)

Feel free to follow – and partake in – the debate here, starting at 7:45 PM (GMT) / 11:45 AM (PST):
Broadcasting Live with Ustream.TV
Photo: Old copies of The Times with supplements (Wikimedia Commons)

22 February saw the first major American newspaper’s demise, as the Colorado daily Rocky Mountain News published its last edition, on print as well as on line. In many ways as could be expected, as we’ve been waiting for newspapers to go belly up for some time now – on a global basis. But the Rocky’s editorial staff didn’t give up. For some time now, they’ve continued to publish local news in I Want My Rocky, a blog not much unlike this, in terms of technology and design.
It soon became …