Comments on: The benefits of keeping your independent voice http://doublebassblog.org/2008/03/the-benefits-of-keeping-your-independent-voice.html double bass news, stories, downloads, podcasts, and more! Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:11:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jason http://doublebassblog.org/2008/03/the-benefits-of-keeping-your-independent-voice.html/comment-page-1#comment-4086 Jason Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:56:38 +0000 http://doublebassblog.org/2008/03/the-benefits-of-keeping-your-independent-voice.html#comment-4086 No kidding! Bloggers (generally) have no formal journalistic training and are doing it on a part-time basis, and I'm not sure if that's the way I want to get all my news. I still subscribe to the Chicago Tribune, listen to NPR, and watch CNN. One can already see a trend (just page through any major national newspaper or weekly news magazine) of journalists starting to resemble bloggers and bloggers starting to resemble journalists, and I wonder how this will all shake out five or ten years down the road. Maybe syndication networks (like Inside the Arts on a larger scale) will take the place of newspapers and magazines, pulling together content from many different bloggers/journalists and compensating them accordingly. It will be interesting to see what shakes out--every few months I read stories about even more rounds of writing staff layoffs for the Tribune Company and other such print media outlets. People still want to read news, whether online or in actual newspapers, and I wonder how many of these freshly unemployed writers will turn to the Internet. No kidding! Bloggers (generally) have no formal journalistic training and are doing it on a part-time basis, and I’m not sure if that’s the way I want to get all my news. I still subscribe to the Chicago Tribune, listen to NPR, and watch CNN. One can already see a trend (just page through any major national newspaper or weekly news magazine) of journalists starting to resemble bloggers and bloggers starting to resemble journalists, and I wonder how this will all shake out five or ten years down the road. Maybe syndication networks (like Inside the Arts on a larger scale) will take the place of newspapers and magazines, pulling together content from many different bloggers/journalists and compensating them accordingly.

It will be interesting to see what shakes out–every few months I read stories about even more rounds of writing staff layoffs for the Tribune Company and other such print media outlets. People still want to read news, whether online or in actual newspapers, and I wonder how many of these freshly unemployed writers will turn to the Internet.

]]> By: jeffweisner http://doublebassblog.org/2008/03/the-benefits-of-keeping-your-independent-voice.html/comment-page-1#comment-4046 jeffweisner Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:19:53 +0000 http://doublebassblog.org/2008/03/the-benefits-of-keeping-your-independent-voice.html#comment-4046 This is an amazing post, Jason. My question for you is: How will enough people make enough money to pay for the infrastructure you need to run good journalism, in any field? If I could earn enough from a music criticism blog to pay for my tickets, I'd do it, but at current ticket prices things look doubtful. I'm frustrated by the fact that blogging remains, in many fields, something that only can be done as a hobby or part-time job. And good journalism needs full-time dedication in any field. Even in news reporting, the economics are pretty bad. This is an amazing post, Jason. My question for you is: How will enough people make enough money to pay for the infrastructure you need to run good journalism, in any field? If I could earn enough from a music criticism blog to pay for my tickets, I’d do it, but at current ticket prices things look doubtful. I’m frustrated by the fact that blogging remains, in many fields, something that only can be done as a hobby or part-time job. And good journalism needs full-time dedication in any field. Even in news reporting, the economics are pretty bad.

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