College Newsroom » free news http://www.collegenewsroom.org A network for collegiate newsrooms to collaborate, share and learn. Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:15:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Nothing Is Free http://www.collegenewsroom.org/2010/02/02/nothing-is-free/ http://www.collegenewsroom.org/2010/02/02/nothing-is-free/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:19:25 +0000 Mark Bauer http://www.collegenewsroom.org/?p=202
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]]> Late last year, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.‘s chairman and chief executive, said “Good journalism is an expensive commodity.” It’s well-known that anyone getting into journalism doesn’t necessarily do so for the money. It ain’t good.

Still, I disagree with Murdoch in that the future of news requires readers to pay for it. Maybe for specialty publications, but not for the everyday news—especially online. Why are news producers still having trouble with this?

The big, old syndicated conglomerates are on the way out. While the Internet is shrinking the world, newspapers, it appears, might be going back to focusing on the local community.

Thoughts?

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