Why I love the new journalism? The answer is simple. Because everything is possible! Every single thing!
We are currently in a time of change. The web is making things possible, which before people only could dream of. And in the same time professional equipment is getting cheaper and easier to understand.
Everyone that is thinking clear, knows the printed press will disappear. Investors take out their money and readers get rid of their over-priced subscription.
Newspapers seem to work in an old fashion way. They employ 200 journalists, working day and night, but in the end producing less than a well organized web news organisation with 20 [...]
Last week Hearst Corporation announced that it has two options for The San Francisco Chronicle: Close or sell. Yes CLOSE or SELL.
The company just wants to get rid of the newspaper. Why? Because they lose money. A lot of money. Last year: 50 million dollar!
Yesterday another newspaper died. The Rocky Mountain News printed it last [...]
Thomas Wiese is a typical Danish pig farmer who’s living 25 kilometers southwest of Aarhus. With a stable of roughly 3.500 pigs and a yearly turnaround of 14.500 animals, he owns a big farm for Danish standards.
(Video is shot with a Kodak Zi6 Pocket video Camera)
There is a change in international reporting. In the ‘good old days’ journalists reported on a classical way about international politics: how are some governments interacting. Stories where about power, authority, war and balance of power.
Now we see more reports on the individual and the connection between different societies. Off course put into the political [...]
A nice guest lecture on journalism in Australia and about their news consumption. A quick round-up:
Currently the news supply in Australia is coming mainly from the United States and Europe. Much of the international news is received through the wires, there are hardly any own correspondents in Europe.
The interests of Australia are changing to Asia, [...]