October 29, 2007

Something Really Wrong

Just saw something in the Columbia Journalism Review (March/April edition, numbers below). There's something really wrong here.

"Hard Numbers:

- A 9% increase in visitors to the top newspaper sites in 2006.

-60% of online newspaper readers are men.

-44% of jobs cut from The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette to be outsourced.

-172 editorial jobs cut from Time Inc. last January.

-18% profit margin at Time Inc."

While I'm at it, in the same CJR edition I saw a story on Wikileaks.  Quoting CJR: "They will allow anyone to post documents that purport to shed light on malfeasance, public or private and remain safely anonymous."

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks

It's a crazy news world out there....

Oct 29, 2007 12:41:16 PM

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