Many, many, many have talked about the threat of the new media against the old media. Now it’s the magazines’ turn. It is known Oprah’s magazine ‘O’ is struggling – which is in part due to the decreasing fan base of Ms. Winfrey herself, but partly also because the medium is outdated. Ms. Winfrey’s quote however brings […]

Whereas TV was thought to be dying alongside its other ‘old’ media friends, people have not given up yet on television.  It seems people still enjoy it (CNN).

A funny and perfect example of what only confirms what I and many others with me think of Fox; being biased is their forte. Fox News interviewed an author and veteran defense reporter on the attack of The United States’ diplomatic compound in Libya, when the interviewee, Thomas Ricks, bashed Fox and accused the network […]

Jeff Zucker is hired as the new president of CNN Worldwide, and has a clear vision for starters. The current president of CNN, Jim Walton will resign at the end of the year as he wants make room for a new perspective, and Zucker offers that in his aim to ‘broaden the definition of news’ […]

The 2012 Presidential election in the United States was unsurprisingly heavily covered by all TV networks throughout the past months. However, where the networks often go crazy on technological gadgets and techniques to perk up their broadcasts, they played it safe on election night. Apart from some holograms and state of the art virtual graphs, […]

Whereas people in journalism are calling for not to trust Twitter as a viable source, Twitter self has now documented their tweets in a political engagement map. In this map, the tweets are representative of the most popular political issues and highest engagement  (Cnet.com). Luckily no blatant statements are made on whoever receive more tweets, is […]

As Gingras has said, the new digital era is inevitable for traditional media. But not to worry,  journalism foresees a bright future. As long if you’re working along with it. That is what Time Magazine has probably thought too. In their coverage of hurricane Sandy, the magazine the popular mobile app Instagram to cover breaking […]

Copyright, copyright, oh copyright. Don’t get me wrong, I’m aware of the importance of copyright and I think it is needed to protect. However, I often make a poor show. I download and freely use images of the Internet (for personal use) just like the average online user. In this debate I would normally be […]

In Poland, an editor of an newspaper has resigned after false statements claimed by the newspaper about the crash of a Polish governmental airplane (nu.nl). After apologies the editor yet decided to resign, to not only save the newspaper’s reputation, but in my eyes a deed of saving journalism’s credibility.

Richard Gingras has spread his view on the future of journalism, which according to him is bright, brighter than ever before. A fairly strong statement, especially in this digital era in which print media see their revenues dropping.