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Fewer readers. Not less readers.
When Presses Roll Less, Execs Spin More
Newsosaur Alan Mutter calls the double-digit drop in the latest newspaper circulation figures "devastating." Content Bridges' Ken Doctor's adjective of choice is "breathtaking." Poynter's Rick Edmonds goes with "extraordinary." Meanwhile, at the San Francisco Chronicle, whose 25.8 percent daily ...
Exactly Mark. As a correspondent, I used to rely heavily on very expensive news aggregators to find out what was happening on my patch. Twitter has replaced that and I think I'm even more on top of things (read: I'd be happy to pay for some of the feeds or the service in general).
Every time my friends bag on Twitter I point out how it's revolutionized my job. The papers that don't Twitter? I don't quote their scoops because their competition copies them -- and twitters them -- before I ever get around to checking non-twittering papers as secondary slow-day sources.
Twitter and Breaking News
Twitter can be maddening in many ways, a cacophony of voices with a lousy signal-to-noise ratio—does anybody really care what somebody else had for breakfast? But one thing that Twitter excels in is breaking news. Its broadcast, real-time, 140-character headline nature makes it a perfect vehicle...
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