Comments on: Media meltdown/summer shutdown http://fortunegrey.com/2009/02/03/media-meltdown-summer-shutdown/ Mon, 21 May 2012 16:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: matt http://fortunegrey.com/2009/02/03/media-meltdown-summer-shutdown/#comment-366 matt Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:31:08 +0000 http://fortunegrey.com/?p=1027#comment-366 That's all true, but the summer shutdown's something different. It's been happening for a long time (how long?) and reflected a pretty confident industry, which you'd think just isn't the case now. That’s all true, but the summer shutdown’s something different. It’s been happening for a long time (how long?) and reflected a pretty confident industry, which you’d think just isn’t the case now.

]]> By: Oz http://fortunegrey.com/2009/02/03/media-meltdown-summer-shutdown/#comment-365 Oz Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:19:07 +0000 http://fortunegrey.com/?p=1027#comment-365 Newspapers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Quality journalism involves investing more money which they don't want to do because profit margins are falling. Yet by cutting back and becoming more like a newswire people won't bother reading. Arguably newspapers are returning to what they originally were. Pretty much basic information with lots of ads. There's been a fair bit of commentary on the topic of the media from the Content Makers blog on Crikey but Inside Story also has an <a href="http://inside.org.au/going-private/" rel="nofollow">interesting article</a> on the subject. My view is that something like Inside Story is the future of quality journalism because of Australia's small media market. Newspapers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Quality journalism involves investing more money which they don’t want to do because profit margins are falling. Yet by cutting back and becoming more like a newswire people won’t bother reading.

Arguably newspapers are returning to what they originally were. Pretty much basic information with lots of ads.

There’s been a fair bit of commentary on the topic of the media from the Content Makers blog on Crikey but Inside Story also has an interesting article on the subject.

My view is that something like Inside Story is the future of quality journalism because of Australia’s small media market.

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