Not the Brightest Idea

Looking through the blogs of other people in the class I kind of realized that maybe I didn't do too well with my list of how to save journalism. I was thinking more of saving print and I focused my list more around that. I wasn't really thinking digitally because for some reason I thought we were supposed to think of how to save print. Anyways, a lot of my list had some really strange and not too bright ideas. I tried to think of ten in one sitting and you can see as the ideas get progressively worse as the list goes on. It's actually really hard to think of ideas to save print because as we all know, digital versions are becoming more and more popular. As hard as it is to think of ways to save it though, I don't think print will ever die. It can't. I think that even if newspapers were to stop producing print copies, magazines would still continue to. There's just something more intriguing about buying a magazine in print than on an e-reader. I think it's a visual thing or the glossy cover, but either way, I don't think print magazines are going anywhere. Basically what I'm trying to say is that even though it seems hard to think of ways to save print, it's also going to be kind of hard to get rid of it.

Back to the idea of saving journalism in a digital realm though. There are so many different options for this one. The main idea I've taken away from Mark Briggs's book though is that you have to think of something new. You can't keep doing the same thing as the person before you because then you'll never go anywhere. In chapter two he said, "Each of these new-era news startups has a different approach to the same business opportunity: publishing news on a topic area in a way that no one else is doing, then attracting an audience and becoming an influential voice" (51). That sounds way easier than it actually is. I'll start thinking of some ideas and save that for my next post.