The Rocky Mountain News published its final edition. RIP.
The San Francisco Chronicle might well be next.
So might the Philadelphia Daily News.
And could an online site replace Chicago’s dailies? (And how much are blogs actually worth, anyway?)
While Newsday announced it’s going to start charging for Web content (making the blogosphere snicker), and Google News lost its advertising virginity (making the journosphere quake in fear), big media outlets dipped their toes into outsourcing to local news sites. And the Times dipped its toe into local citizen journalism. Hearst will do the same. Connecticut outlets wrestled over local ownership. And Minnesota papers got a $238,000 grant to retrain their journalists.
Should the Times monetize its platform by sharing it with other outlets? Could kitemarks offer an answer to the monetization problem? Does it all come down to supply and demand?
Everyone was all a-Twitter about microblogging. We talked about how we’re sick of talking about it. And then we talked about it some more. And then we got advice from it. BriWi mocked it. Mark McKinnon felt betrayed by it. And a new twerncalular is emerging. But don’t use those twerms too often: using Twitter probably means you’re narcissistic. Or insecure. Or both.
Oh, and the Grey Lady was embarrassed by a blog.
Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.