Since my previous post I have stumbled across another blog exploring the same issues. It raised a few new points so I thought I would share:
http://earleyedition.com/2009/10/16/decline-and-fall/
The blog is by Dave Earley, who works in a metro network television newsroom. Although it is his personal blog, it offers some interesting insights. In this particular post, "Decline, yes. Fall? Maybe not", he refers to Barker's essay, The Crumbling Estate, which explores the reasons behind the failing newspaper industry.
Summarised, Barker’s 10 trends killing (newspaper) journalism in Australia are:
1. Managerialism displacing journalism as the dominant newsroom culture
2. Perpetual efforts to cut costs and staff
3. Changing work habits cutting journalists off from outside world
4. Young journalists less likely to see the job as a vocation and more of a stepping stone
5. Journalists out-gunned, out-thought, out-paid by armies of communications advisers
6. Cost-cuts that lead to buying more content from notable international papers
7. Avoiding difficult issues and highlighting sensationalist material, emphasising sex and sport
8. Breakdown in separation between editorial and advertising
9. Little sustained investigative journalism
10. Downplay coverage of foreign and national news in favour of local news
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