3 to read: Facebook? Change? No way | Era ends: NYT’s Markoff retires | Print is dead (not)
By Matt Carroll <@MattCData>
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- Why Facebook has zero interest in making changes for news: OK, the hedline exaggerates. Frederic Filloux of Monday Note says Facebook does have one good reason — it’s good PR. But otherwise… Facebook is about ads, page views and emotion. News? It don’t care; ain’t part of the game plan. So newspeople who are counting on Facebook to make substantive changes? Sorry. A tough read, but sounds realistic to me.
2. A tech era ends: NYT’s Markoff retires: For anyone who has followed the world of tech, reporter John Markoff is a rock star. Markoff chronicled the ins and outs of digital, from Apple to browsers, from AI to dark hackers. Now he’s pulled the plug, after nearly three decades. His retirement speech looks back over his illustrious career at the new York Times.
3. Print is dead. Long live print: Why print is so hard to kill (hint: people like it): Michael Rosenwald argues in the Columbia Journalism Review that newspaper publishers are giving up on print way too soon. People still love print and — btw — that’s still where a lot of the money is. He makes an interesting argument (even if I’m not sure I quite buy it.)
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Matt Carroll is a journalism professor at Northeastern University.
