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Howard Owens is a digital media pioneer. He started publishing local news online in 1995 when very few local news outlets had web sites. The header image on the site depicts the film camera he used early in his career and the press pass from his year on the staff of the Carlsbad Journal. For more on Howard's professional background, read his LinkedIn profile.
HowardOwens.com is the personal web site of Howard Owens and covers his range of interests -- political localism and libertarianism, music and personal interests, as well as his professional interests.
Howard is currently publisher of The Batavian and lives in Batavia, N.Y.
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Looking ahead for public newspaper companies
Rick Edmonds sums up the current state of newspaper ownership and is pretty balanced about it.
Related article from Business Week. Continue reading
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Attention New Media Federation Members — Vote
If you’re a New Media Federation member, you should have received an e-mail about voting for the Online Innovator Award. There are two deserving nominees this year — Dave Morgan and Steve Yelvington. Please be sure to vote. You should have received an e-mail with a link to the ballot site. Continue reading
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The future of newspapers is digital
Time posts an item about the future of newspapers — a series of quotes/predictions from people in the industry. Here are a few highlights.
Andrew Davis, President of the American Press Institute:
Newspapers have three attributes that will for a time, make them still relevant. They are low-cost or no cost, they are highly portable, and you can scan through more bits of information on a printed news page faster than you can on a PC, online, on a PDA or on a cell phone. So it’s a very efficient means of presenting information.
Bob Mong, Editor of the Dallas Morning News:
I’m 57. When I was 21, about 70% of people my age read a newspaper regularly. For people my age now, it’s still about the same percentage. But in the Dallas market today, only about 30% of people between 18 and 24 look at a newspaper fairly regularly. That’s a 40% gap. That’s not good news for the newspaper in the bag.
Alexia Quadrani, Media Analyst, Bear Stearns:
There is a significant pricing gap between new media and old media. The cost to reach 1,000 people is $20 for newspapers, but just $5 for those online.
Jeffrey Cole, Director of the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California:
Today, teens don’t read newspapers and they never will. If there were a newspaper strike across America today, almost no one under the age of 30 would notice.
John Janedis, Senior Media Analyst, Wachovia Securities:
Earning a Pulitzer Prize for excellent journalism doesn’t translate into sales of newspapers in this environment.
Karen Dunlap, President of the Poynter Journalism Institute:
I disagree with the assumption that newspapers will die. But we need to train journalists for multimedia reporting. They need to move from being just print reporters to being comfortable taking photos and doing audio and video.