Sorry you weren't there, Frank. You missed a good party with a lot of great people.
Our account of the Inquirer reunion certainly didn't sugarcoat the decline of the paper. It's a far less satisfying read with no foreign coverage or Sunday book review. But we're not living in the past either. In fact, those of us at the TreeHouse Media Project are working to build the future by providing journalists with the business knowledge and technical skills to survive and thrive in this harsh, yet exciting, new media world.
As we say in our introduction:
Fuck Google. Fuck Craig's List. Fuck Wall Street. Yes, we have ample reason to be bitter. Times have never been worse for newspaper journalists...
But no amount of bitching will prevent Yahoo from poaching our readers nor investors from seeking bigger profits. So, let's suck it up.... As knowledge workers, we can benefit from the technologies that are threatening newspapers' survival: No longer does one need a printing press to publish, only a personal computer, an Internet connection and an idea.
Your blog is proof of that.
Making a living as a publisher, however, requires entrepreneurial skills that few journalists possess. That is the challenge we hope to overcome.
Sorry you weren't there, Frank. You missed a good party with a lot of great people.
ReplyDeleteOur account of the Inquirer reunion certainly didn't sugarcoat the decline of the paper. It's a far less satisfying read with no foreign coverage or Sunday book review. But we're not living in the past either. In fact, those of us at the
TreeHouse Media Project are working to build the future by providing journalists with the business knowledge and technical skills to survive and thrive in this harsh, yet exciting, new media world.
As we say in our introduction:
Fuck Google. Fuck Craig's List. Fuck Wall Street. Yes, we have ample reason to be bitter. Times have never been worse for newspaper journalists...
But no amount of bitching will prevent Yahoo from poaching our readers nor investors from seeking bigger profits. So, let's suck it up.... As knowledge workers, we can benefit from the technologies that are threatening newspapers' survival: No longer does one need a printing press to publish, only a personal computer, an Internet connection and an idea.
Your blog is proof of that.
Making a living as a publisher, however, requires entrepreneurial skills that few journalists possess. That is the challenge we hope to overcome.
Rich Heidorn Jr.
TreeHouse Media Project