One’s a family-controlled, century-plus-old newspaper chain, known for believing in its civic mission but not for its digital strategy. The other is, well, Tronc. With an assist from L.A.’s richest man, could this be a path forward?
Well-intentioned antitrust actions by the Department of Justice are likely to deliver two newspapers to a company with a record of milking papers for profit through deep cutbacks.
As single-minded, profit-driven management drives down the local news business, where is its moral center — the one that long rested, if sometimes uncomfortably, alongside the demands of running a successful business?
The purchase of U-T San Diego by Tribune Publishing — owners of the Los Angeles Times up the road — is a sign of the kind of newspaper consolidation publishers are being pushed toward.
“The same bingo drinking-game template works for tech’s back-patting and journalism’s navel-gazing. Journalism indulges its own buzzwords, dogma, and secret-handshake crap.” Tiff Fehr
Fehr, Tiff. "Disrupt the buzzword backlash." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 16 Dec. 2014. Web. 24 Apr. 2024.
APA
Fehr, T. (2014, Dec. 16). Disrupt the buzzword backlash. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/disrupt-the-buzzword-backlash/
Chicago
Fehr, Tiff. "Disrupt the buzzword backlash." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified December 16, 2014. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/disrupt-the-buzzword-backlash/.
Wikipedia
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