New Challenges and Opportunities in Journalism

Through today's post on Ilind.net I learned of a new Twitter feed called @themediaisdying, a plan by producers of NPR's program This American life to self-distribute, and also a service that plans to sell individual articles from magazines and newspapers, a la iTunes with songs.

By chance yesterday, I found this list of articles on Amazon.com by a local writer, Lisa Ishikawa. What I guess is that she got back her copyright and uploaded her articles to Amazon, where she can sell them as digital downloads.

(6 April update: The Editorial Dead Zone has kept track of media closings for years.)

(A sample tweet from @themediaisdying. Note the photo of a page from The Honolulu Advertiser.)

I have seen the future of newspapers: pic.twitter.com/UfmWt2OTCP

— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) January 29, 2014

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11 April update: Opinion piece on newspapers and the Koch brothers, et al. filling the gap

It doesn't mention when the Kochs tried to buy the Tribune news company, though.