Larry Dailey issues a provocative call to disrupt convergence projects between colleges and newspapers in America. The University of Nevada-Reno professor questions whether some of the partnerships do more than provide newspapers with free student labor. Read Dailey's article in the December edition of the The Convergence Newsletter, and post your thoughts below. What should college journalism programs require of newspapers, television stations, and other news businesses in a convergence partnership? Continue the conversation on the newsletter's Google+ or Facebook pages.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
December 2012: A call to disrupt convergence
Friday, June 3, 2011
April/May 2011 Convergence Newsletter
With convergence comes great responsibility and opportunity - opportunity that the University of South Florida's Anne Anderson says many newspapers still seem to be missing. In her discussion of media platform convergence, Anderson highlights the industry's neglect of younger audiences even as studies show the reading habit begins early. Part of the news industry's responsibility is to adapt content to its audience, and Anderson suggests the industry expand the concept of younger readers and community content in order to capture this ignored audience.
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Another responsibility is to try new things, as Chris Vadnais, superintendent of AFN-Incirlik, the Defense Department's radio and television station at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, has done as a converged journalist. He details his experience and says managers are vital to the convergence process and must lead by taking some of the fear out of failure.
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Monday, February 7, 2011
February 2011 Convergence Newsletter
The Internet's role in convergence is irrefutable as the centralized location of easily accessible information. This continues to send shockwaves throughout the newspaper industry, and while some applaud new journalism for breathing a new life into newspapers, others are quick to write the industry's obituary.
But the University of Alabama's Kristen Heflin cautions not to jump to conclusions. Her research of the newspaper industry's past shows the industry's ability to adapt to change and survive, rather than meet an untimely death at the hands of another news platform.
In this issue, Heflin explores the parallels between the emergence of television news and its effect on the newspaper industry and the relationship between newspapers and the Internet.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
May 2010: Cedar Rapids Newsrooms' Grand Experiment in Convergence
Wartburg College's Cliff Brockman analyzes one newsroom's attempt to embrace convergence by moving from the idea of selling one product to a world of "multiple products."
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Convergence and Society conference coverage
Doug is at the "Convergence and Society" conference in Reno this week. He is doing some live blogging on it at his blog, Common Sense Jounalism. Here is a list of his posts that is being updated.
- News orgs still don't get it
- Slide shows, who is doing them and why
- Radio's conundrum
- Michigan as ground zero
- Newspapers in Second Life
- All things Canadian
- Thursday quick hits
We also hope to have excerpts from these papers in upcoming newsletters.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
June 2009 Issue Now Available
Cyber social networking is helping to fuel the current Iranian protest against recent election results. But with Iran’s government trying to stem the opposition’s mobilization by actively removing opposition Web sites and attempting to slow down social networking portals such as Facebook and Twitter, the world is being deprived of information concerning this major political movement. Iranian censorship of the Internet is not unique. The Chinese government tried to shut down dissidents’ online use at the time of Tiananmen. Other nations face such roadblocks to cyber information. This issue of The Convergence Newsletter offers two articles examining problems of Internet access in Ethiopia. We also present a study focusing on India’s use of media, examining how and where convergence in that country takes place.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
May-June 2009 Issue Now Available
This May-June issue of The Convergence Newsletter looks at how convergence is serving some local communities.
Leading off is an interview with Mike Orren, founder and president of Pegasus News, a Dallas-Fort Worth online publication founded in 2005. Pegasus offers people the opportunity to localize their news, and, if they desire, to be unfettered citizen journalists, reporting the news as they see it. Orren tells The Convergence Newsletter that to be a successful online news source you need to offer your reader more than just news.
Doug Fisher of the University of South Carolina, and executive editor of TCN, says you can save the money you'd spend on some of those "secrets of social media" training sessions. He explains some simple truths he has learned from creating Hartsville Today, a three-year-old experiment in online community news and social networking.
Finally we bring you Douglas Starr, a former Associated Press journalist and now a media professor at Texas A&M, who stresses the importance a free press plays in today’s society. Starr encourages readers to seek out all forms of media and apply it daily in making informed social decisions. He says a free press serves communities and aids all in becoming better citizens.
Monday, June 15, 2009
May-June 2009: The Future of the U.S. and Newspapers
The United States is in jeopardy. Many newspapers have gone out of business and the rest are in deplorable condition. If the news media shut down, the United States will no longer boast government of the people, by the people, for the people. The government will be in charge because there will be no free criticism of the government, no uncensored report on what the government is doing. Douglas Perret Starr argues there are three things that must be done to save newspapers.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
April 2009: Reinventing a Journalism Career in the Digital Age
Wendy Parker joined 15,000 others among the ranks of former newspaper workers last year, but rather than lament her situation, Parker has embraced the change. Optimistic and encouraging, her story can serve as a model for those looking for life after newspapers.
April 2009: Be Careful what You Wish For in 2009
Times are certainly tough for newspapers, but that doesn't mean editors and publishers can't adapt to the changing landscape and meet today's challenges head on. That's the message offered by Tom Griscom, editor of the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
February 2009: Goodbye Convergence, Hello 'Webvergence': The Decline of Broadcast-Print Partnerships in an Increasingly Online Media World
In the early days of convergence, the newsroom of the future was envisioned: all manner of media platforms – newspaper and television, mostly – sharing information, staff, and resources all under the same roof.
Has this panned out? Mostly not, suggest Drs. Susan Keith of Rutgers University and Leslie-Jean Thornton of Arizona State University. Keith and Thornton interviewed scores of TV and newspaper managers to find out the degree to which such hotly anticipated partnerships ever came to fruition.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
September 2008: Star Car Helps Paper Adapt to the Future of News
In a world of 24-hour newsrooms, how are small news operations adapting? Drew Brooks, a former reporter at The (Shelby, N.C.) Star, shares his experience with the Star Car, a mobile newsgathering van aimed at revolutionizing small-town news.
Friday, June 13, 2008
June 2008: Radio and Newspaper Converge in one of Iowa’s Smallest Markets
The effects of convergence, it might be argued, can be felt more acutely in smaller communities. In the case of Iowa Falls, Iowa, changes were in store when the town's newspaper and a major radio station came under the same roof.
Cliff Brockman of Wartburg College tells us how the convergence has been a miniature boon to the town — better news coverage and new jobs followed the merger, Brockman reports.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
May 2008: Newspapers Go Mobile to Compete with TV
L. Carol Christopher's look at the Star Car has been republished with the generous permission of The Seybold Report.
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