http://digitalnewsjournalist.com/2010/02/03/the-digital-future-of-foreign-reporting/ Tips, tools and resources for multimedia journalism Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://digitalnewsjournalist.com/2010/02/03/the-digital-future-of-foreign-reporting/#comment-490 melvin wells Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:07:45 +0000 http://digitalnewsjournalist.com/?p=897#comment-490 To be honest, I don't see anything besides building partnerships, to be as critical these days. The most critica work that businesses should focus on in the current economy is building channel partnerships. Media buy, advertising, online promotion, worries about sites monetization - it's all important too, but the marketing budgets are shrinking, therefore I see strategic partnerships to be the main focus of any operation - from emerging start up to a large organization. To be honest, I don’t see anything besides building partnerships, to be as critical these days. The most critica work that businesses should focus on in the current economy is building channel partnerships. Media buy, advertising, online promotion, worries about sites monetization – it’s all important too, but the marketing budgets are shrinking, therefore I see strategic partnerships to be the main focus of any operation – from emerging start up to a large organization.

]]> http://digitalnewsjournalist.com/2010/02/03/the-digital-future-of-foreign-reporting/#comment-37 Peter Bengelsdorf Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:32:48 +0000 http://digitalnewsjournalist.com/?p=897#comment-37 Media companies that scale back foreign coverage are short-sighted. They serve an educated public in communities bustling with immigrants from everywhere. Their communities are increasingly affected by international trade. That would seem to justify the faith of the journalists in this encouraging story, but we must hope that technology now accomplishes what it's failed to do so far: digitally replicating the consumer-friendly experience of reading a newspaper, and replacing the business formulas that made newspapers so profitable. The urgency of preserving and creating jobs with good salaries can't be overstated. There are always exceptions, but in the long term the profession can't attract the best and brightest if it doesn't pay. If you ever have an hour or two to spend with a library microfilm reader, browse through some of the stuff that regional newspapers published in the 1940s and '50s. It's shockingly bad, and it took several generations to overcome. (Sorry about the microfilm. Most of those editions haven't been digitized yet.) Media companies that scale back foreign coverage are short-sighted. They serve an educated public in communities bustling with immigrants from everywhere. Their communities are increasingly affected by international trade.
That would seem to justify the faith of the journalists in this encouraging story, but we must hope that technology now accomplishes what it’s failed to do so far: digitally replicating the consumer-friendly experience of reading a newspaper, and replacing the business formulas that made newspapers so profitable.
The urgency of preserving and creating jobs with good salaries can’t be overstated. There are always exceptions, but in the long term the profession can’t attract the best and brightest if it doesn’t pay.
If you ever have an hour or two to spend with a library microfilm reader, browse through some of the stuff that regional newspapers published in the 1940s and ’50s. It’s shockingly bad, and it took several generations to overcome. (Sorry about the microfilm. Most of those editions haven’t been digitized yet.)

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