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CJR: Huge culture gap between print and online In the B2B publisher’s dream world, the transition to online media would come as a natural evolution from print. The vocabulary, the ethos, the culture, the methods would all be organic extensions of print. Reality, of course, is brutally different. The shift to online media is not an extrapolation [...] In an article published this week on Folio:’s Web site, Jill Ambroz reviews a panoply of print “innovations” that, she writes, “are breathing fresh air into a mature industry that is battling its own digital counterparts for survival.” It’s hard to tell how seriously she takes these innovations, especially as she twice refers to them [...] For most practitioners of new-media journalism, the key to ethics is transparency. So long as you disclose all your biases and interests in what you write about, you’re OK. The rest of the traditional guidelines in which journalists have been trained are up for discussion, it seems. The latest and, to me, most mind-boggling example [...] A couple of blog commentaries today by B2B icons highlight two industry transformations that just aren’t happening fast enough. In one post, reflecting on today’s bankruptcy filing of Penton Media, Paul Conley laments that traditional publishers have been too slow to die off. In the other, Joe Pulizzi worries that media professionals have been too slow to [...] Of all the publishing-industry reactions to the debut of Apple’s iPad so far, the strangest may be a suggestion that the iPad and other e-readers will allow magazines to give up the Web. In a brief blog post on Folio: today, Donald Seckler proposes that as e-readers soar in popularity, they will offer an attractive [...] |
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