Newspaper dumps print edition

Is this a sign of the times?  The Capital Times, an afternoon newspaper in Madison, Wis., is moving most of its operations online.  Editor Dave Zweifel announced this week that the Times is dropping the print edition in favor of the Web:
The daily newspaper will no longer be hamstrung by an unyielding deadline that locks [...]

Remembering McWethy

The death of former ABC correspondent John McWethy came as a shock. He died this week doing something he loved–skiing in Colorado. He was 61.
I knew Jack as both a competitor and a friend. When I covered the State Department for CBS News in the mid-1980s, Jack was on the beat for [...]

Print journalism burnout

Research done at Ball State University indicates that young newspaper journalists are not very happy with their jobs. Dr. Scott Reinardy found that young people are the most dissatisfied group in the newsroom:
Interestingly, younger journalists not only reported higher rates of burnout than their colleagues, but those journalists are most likely to express intentions [...]

Journalism entrepreneurship

It’s a mouthful, but it’s essential. Journalists today have to be entrepreneurs. In Mark Glazer’s view, that means you need to understand the business side of news. He notes on MediaShift that two schools, CUNY and Berkeley, now offer courses in entrepreneurial journalism, and Arizona State has a new Knight Center for [...]