By Jessica Newman
This video performance from a Canadian newspaper staff is more quirky than pointed. The quartet works for The Globe and Mail, a weekly national newspaper printed in Toronto. Like print media everywhere, they’re struggling to keep their heads above water in the face of the endless possibilities of the Internet. In the video, they touch on the decline in interest in long-form and in-depth journalism due both to the short, blurb-style that’s conducive to Internet-reading and also the prevalence of citizen journalism made possible with the web. In my opinion, the Globe and Mail journalists are looking at this issue from too narrow a lens. It’s not print media we should be obsessing over saving; instead we should be obsessing over saving long-form journalism and finding a viable model for producing it on the web and catching readers’ attention. Print may become obsolete (although not likely, in my opinion), but in-depth journalism will always remain important.
Tags: alternative media • journalism • Media (r)Evolution