Newspaper Next

Check these sites for coverage on the Newspaper Next report, released on Septemeber, 27th 2007.As these are direct links to external Web sites to avoid copyright infringement, please click here to report broken links.

AsiaMedia
BizNews
Boston Herald
BusinessWeek/AP
ClickZ
EarthLink/AP
Editor & Publisher
Editors Weblog
Fortune
Houston Chronicle/AP
Investor's Business Daily
Journalism.org
KSL Newsradio/AP
Media Planner Buyer
Media Buyer Planner (New)
MSN Money
Newspaper Guild/E&P
Poynter-Romensko/USA Today
South Carolina Press Association
USATODAY
WGMS 104.1
Yahoo Finance/AP

Florida Sun-Sentinel.com, Jan 9, 2006.

"Newspapers used to have a monopoly on information, and it is taking them a long time to get used to the idea that they have lost it. A century ago, in every American city, various Heralds, Timeses, Tribunes and Gazettes may have competed with each other, but as a mass medium, the newspaper enjoyed total primacy.

"'It went out once a day and it was of absolute necessity to absolutely everyone,' says Stephen T. Gray, former managing publisher of The Christian Science Monitor, who now runs a research project called Newspaper Next at the American Press Institute in Reston, Va. 'Today we've got an infinite pipe for information, but we're still putting out a medium that goes out once a day and meets the needs of 100 years ago.'"

Presstime, Jan 3, 2006

"The newspaper business has been hearing rumors of its demise for generations. Seventy-five years ago, radio was the threat. Fifty years ago, it was television; 10 years ago, the Internet. Through it all, newspapers have not only survived but even today continue to demonstrate profit margins that are the envy of many other industries. "

WBUR.org (NPR), Jan. 05, 2006

Hear about crunch-time for America's newspapers and what the country would do without them.

Guests

• Tom Ronsenstiel, Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, former media critic of the Los Angeles Times and chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek


• Roy Peter Clark, Vice President and Senior Scholar at the Poynter Institute -- a non profit, independent institution which teaches journalists and leaders in the media


• Peter Bathia, Executive Editor of the Oregonian in Portland

Read in The Editors Weblog how one editor is putting Newspaper Next into action at his publication.

Read the Article here.

Drew Davis outlines the goals of the Newspaper Next project in the November 2005 issues of Presstime. To view the 133 KB PDF, click here.

Check out this insightful article from the Spring 2006 Nieman Report.

Read the latest article on innovation, convergence, and the future of newspapers in the article Adapt or Die from the American Journalism Review.

Check here for the latest media coverage on newspaper Next and the report Blueprint for Transformation.

Below is Richmond Times-Dispatch Publisher Tom Silvestri's column from February 2007, in which he says the need for newspapers to innovate is urgent.

Mark Glaser's long, thoughtful interview with Newspaper Next's Steve Gray is here. Much of the discussion is about newspapers' opportunity to become local ad brokers for their business customers.