{"id":200,"date":"2007-01-11T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2007-01-11T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T19:18:00","slug":"news-a-really-expensive-exhaustive-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/01\/news-a-really-expensive-exhaustive-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"News: &quot;a really expensive, exhaustive exercise&#8230;&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mitchell Stephens<\/span> in the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/issues\/2007\/1\/Stephens.asp\">Columbia Journalism Review<\/a><\/span> has seen the future of journalism. It&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Independent<\/span><\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Independent<\/span> is a serious English national daily in a market with three other serious national dailies. So the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Independent<\/span>, looking for an edge, has begun devoting most of its front page, weeklylike, to a single story \u2014 a story covered with considerable perspective and depth, a story in which the paper is not shy about exhibiting a point of view. The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Independent<\/span> weighed in recently, for example, on the debate on global warming with this headline, and a picture of a large wave, dominating its front page: \u201cTsunami hits Britain: 5 november 2060.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simon Kelner, the paper\u2019s editor in chief, explains that his understanding of the situation of the daily newspaper \u201ccrystallized\u201d during coverage in England of the American presidential election in 2004. The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Independent<\/span> reported and interpreted the results along with the other papers. \u201cIt was a really expensive, exhaustive exercise for us all,\u201d Kelner recalls. Yet the next morning newsstand circulation actually fell. For up-to-the-minute results people had turned instead to the radio, television, and the Internet. However, he explains, \u201cThe next day the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Independent<\/span> published twenty-one pages of analysis and interpretation of the election \u2014 and we put on fifteen percent in sales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelner got the message. \u201cThe idea that a newspaper is going to be peoples\u2019 first port of call to find out what\u2019s going on in the world is simply no longer valid. So you have to add another layer: analysis, interpretation, point of view.\u201d Kelner now dubs his daily a \u201cviewspaper.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Stephens in the Columbia Journalism Review has seen the future of journalism. It&#8217;s the Independent: The Independent is a serious English national daily in a market with three other serious national dailies. So the Independent, looking for an edge, has begun devoting most of its front page, weeklylike, to a single story \u2014 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,81,5],"tags":[85,119],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-media","category-news","tag-indie","tag-uk-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}