Newpapers blame everyone but themselves. I didn't see any actual reporters there either, and there haven't been for a long time. Because the newspapers cut their staff to satisfy Wall St. demands for ridiculous product margins.
Also, see this link: http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/07/be-the-change-you-want-to-see-david/
Local blogs hiring for this very position, while newspapers abandon their trust and whine.
The decline in newspapering by newspapers was addressed elsewhere in the essay, and acknowledged at the start of the last paragraph I quoted ("I didn't trip over a herd of hungry Sun reporters either, but that's the point"), but yeah, that's an aspect under-discussed in the places where I see the decline of newspapers being talked about. (It does come up, but seldom do I see it mentioned in articles that also compare/contrast newspapers and blogs, the one quoted today being an exception.)
I didn't know about blogs attempting to hire Reporters, but I saw it coming (I guessed it'd be later than this). Given that even if newspapers survive, many have abdicated this function (and many have thrown away what trust readers had had in them), newsblogs hiring reporters to do this had to happen. The question I have is whether it'll wind up being economically sustainable or a brief experiment -- I don't think America can afford for it not to somehow wind up working.
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Also, see this link: http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/07/be-the-change-you-want-to-see-david/
Local blogs hiring for this very position, while newspapers abandon their trust and whine.
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I didn't know about blogs attempting to hire Reporters, but I saw it coming (I guessed it'd be later than this). Given that even if newspapers survive, many have abdicated this function (and many have thrown away what trust readers had had in them), newsblogs hiring reporters to do this had to happen. The question I have is whether it'll wind up being economically sustainable or a brief experiment -- I don't think America can afford for it not to somehow wind up working.