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THE COMMODIFICATION OF NEWS

Al Jazeera
Jan 15

R.I.P. Al Jazeera America: Tired Cable TV News Joins ‘HuffPost Live’ in Latest Flunk

Trying to be 'CNN for smart people' won't work with a generation abandoning TV to watch video online.
By Jeff Jarvis
A television camerawoman takes video of the new Al Jazeera America television broadcast studio on West 34th Street August 16, 2013 in New York. Al Jazeera America, which will launch on August 20, will have its headquarters in New York. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Jan 13

The Death of ‘Huffpost Live’: How to Fail at Video

For media relevance, look to Facebook, AJ+ and Vice—not NYT or cable news.
By Jeff Jarvis
Jan 6

Whether Delivering News, Mail, or Commerce, Atoms Are Losing the War Against Bits

Atoms still matter. One might think that in this digital age, anything can be replaced by a bit.
By Jeff Jarvis
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 04: Jerry Delakas's newsstand is viewed on April 4, 2012 in New York City. Delakas has been selling papers, magazines, lottery tickets and other items seven days a week for 25 years at the iconic New York location. Despite the license holder for the newsstand leaving it to him in her will, Delakas is being threatened with eviction by the Department of Consumer Affairs. The New york agency claims that he's not the legal license holder. The area around Astor Place at Lafayette Street, once the heart of bohemian New York, has slowly evolved into an area of banks and chain stores like Starbucks and The Gap. Critics of the city's threat to evict Delakas say that he represents some of the last traces of authentic New York. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Dec 23

Beware the New Moral Hazards of Media

By Jeff Jarvis
Journalists are seen working on computers in the central press room of French press agency Agence France-Presse in Paris November 1978. (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
Dec 16

How CUNY’s First Class of Social Journalists Is Reinventing Reporting

By Jeff Jarvis
Conversation. (Photo: Jim Pennucci/ Flickr)
Dec 2

Text Beats Talk: Phone Calls are Awkward, Unnatural, Interruptive and Rude

By Jeff Jarvis
TO GO WITH AFP STORY A schoolgirl writes old-fashion with chalk on a blackboard while in class 07 December, 2007 in Villa Cardal, 80km from Montevideo. The sentences written on the board aim to explain basic concepts and advantages of the use of computers in education: "This new communication era opens the way to information", "But above all, don't forget that computers can't solve it all" and "It is a tool, a companion to make friends around the planet". The small 2,000 inhabitants village of Villa Cardal was chosen by its peculiar characteristics to host the first stage of the "Ceibal" (A native forest of 'ceibo' trees) project, consisting in assigning a specially designed laptop to each schoolboy to be used as a learning tool and to connect the young students of even remote places to the rest of the world. AFP PHOTO PANTA ASTIAZARAN (Photo credit should read PANTA ASTIAZARAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Nov 25

Lessons Learned From a Gathering of Hacks and Geeks: Progress Is Possible

By Jeff Jarvis
People light candles outside the Petard Butcher Shop in Chailles, near Blois, central France, on November 17, 2015, to pay tribute to Anna and Marion Petard-Lieffrig, victims of the attacks claimed by Islamic State (IS) on November 13 in Paris. Anna Petard, 26 years old, and her sister Marion, 30 years old, were killed in the restaurant "Le petit Cambodge". AFP PHOTO / GUILLAUME SOUVANT (Photo credit should read GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP/Getty Images)
Nov 18

When Disaster Strikes, Where Do We Turn?

By Jeff Jarvis
EXETER, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 03: A muddy Harry Skelton at Exeter racecourse on November 03, 2015 in Exeter, England. (Photo by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)
Nov 4

Gallup Decision to Drop Horse-Race Polling Is the Best Thing About This Election

By Jeff Jarvis
circa 1955: Fireflies in a petri-dish. The flies caught by Baltimore children who are paid 25 cents per hundred, are used in research on the species. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images)
Oct 21

If Journalism Were Run Like Science, Would It Be More Believable?

By Jeff Jarvis
Competing at the stands.
Oct 14

What if Content Could Come to You Rather Than Making You Go to Content?

By Jeff Jarvis
1926: American actor Neil Hamilton (1899-1984) as he appears in the silent film version of 'The Great Gatsby', based on the novel by F Scott Fitzgerald.. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)
Oct 8

Who is the Patron Saint of American Journalism?

By Jeff Jarvis
Journalists work in the main newsroom area of the new Al Jazeera America television broadcast studio on West 34th Street August 16, 2013 in New York. Al Jazeera America, which will launch on August 20, will have its headquarters in New York. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Oct 2

As Advertising Crumbles, Paywalls Will Not Come to the Rescue of the News Business

By Jeff Jarvis
Picture of a magnifying glass on the homepage of Facebook website in Spanish language, taken in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on May 12, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Sep 16

The Homepage Is Officially Dead

By Jeff Jarvis
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10: A window cleaner walks past a billboard with a small portion of an old advert remaining on February 10, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Sep 3

Advertising Doesn’t Have to Irritate, Intrude, Lie, Cheat and Generally Suck

By Jeff Jarvis
SAN FRANCISCO - OCTOBER 26: Newspapers are displayed at a newsstand October 26, 2009 in San Francisco, California. A report by the Audit Bureau of Circulations reveals that the average daily circulation of U.S. newspapers fell 10.6 percent in the six month period between April-September compared to one year ago. The San Francisco Chronicle had the largest decline with a drop of 25.8 percent to 251,782. The Wall Street Journal surpassed USA Today as the number one selling paper in the U.S. after USA Today had its circulation drop more than 17 percent to 1.90 million. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Aug 26

Newspaper Death Spiral Made Plain in One Chart

By Jeff Jarvis
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY TUPAC POINTU A man holds a tablet and a smartphone showing a news website and a Twitter news thread in front of world newspapers on September 12, 2013 in Paris. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL BONAVENTURE (Photo credit should read LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images)
Aug 19

Members Only: Media Forced to Be—Gasp!—Useful to the Communities They Serve

By Jeff Jarvis
4th June 1975: The newsroom of the Evening Standard. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
Aug 12

Amid Constant Layoffs, Journalists Should Stop Parroting Each Other

By Jeff Jarvis

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