al termine della serata, ha cantato tre canzoni in francese e appena conclusa l’ultima esibizione ha detto ad Alemanno: «Vai Gianni, adesso devi passare con il piattino!».  

C’è grossa crisi. Si vede che Apicella costa troppo.

Ansa

«So che il Presidente Berlusconi vive ora con questa ragazza che si chiama Pascale. Anche l’altro giorno sono andato lì a trovarlo e lei era lì ad Arcore, si è trasferita là col suo cane».

Testimonianza di Barbara Guerra oggi al processo Ruby in corso a Milano

Ansa

Repubblica è un «giornale d’opinione che mira a un pubblico medio-alto, area centro-sinistra, né pagine locali, né cronaca nera, né sensazionalismo».

Nota diplomatica dell’ambasciata USA in Italia datata 19 settembre 1976 (la data di nascita di Rep è il 14 gennaio 1976) riportata in un articolo di Simonetta Fiori, Stefania Maurizi, Concetto Vecchio su Repubblica di oggi. Chissà se hanno mandato un cable anche quando hanno imbroccato la via per il successo con Portfolio, il bingo con le quotazioni di Borsa. O quando hanno ereditato i quotidiani locali. O quando hanno cominciato a imitare Paese Sera. Oppure quando hanno inventato il «boxino morboso».

Repubblica

Presidenza della Repubblica 

Here it is: In 2012, newspapers lost $16 in print ads for every $1 earned in digital ads. And it’s getting worse, according to a new report by Pew. In 2011, the ratio was just 10-to-1. The digital ad revolution, always “just around the corner”, remains tantalizingly out of reach for most newspapers, which explains why some stalwarts like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have moved to subscription models for their websites to bolster digital ad growth. Just today, the Washington Post announced a paywall.

The Atlantic

This summer, The Washington Post will start charging frequent users of its Web site, asking those who look at more than 20 articles or multimedia features a month to pay a fee, although the company has not decided how much it will charge. The paper said, however, that it would exempt large parts of its audience from having to pay the fees. Its home-delivery subscribers will have free access to all of The Post’s digital products, and students, teachers, school administrators, government employees and military personnel will have unlimited access to the Web site while in their schools and workplaces. Access to  The Post home page, section front pages and classified ads will not be limited.  The step, while modest compared with some other publications, marks a major change for The Post, which has shied away from what is known as a paywall for fear of driving away readers and online advertisers. It now joins a long list of other daily publications that charge for content, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe and New York Times.

Washington Post

In the news media, a continued erosion of reporting resources has converged with growing opportunities for newsmakers, such as political figures, government agencies, companies and others, to take their messages directly to the public. The public, for its part, is not very aware of the financial struggles that have led to the news industry’s cutbacks in reporting, but nearly one-in-three (31%) say they have stopped turning to a particular news outlet because it no longer provides the news they were accustomed to getting.

Insomma un disastro, tenuto conto che la scarsa qualità delle notizie è data – anche e soprattutto – dai tagli feroci operati in questi ultimi anni alle redazioni giornalistiche e ai compensi dei freelance. Tagli feroci che sono dovuti in massima parte al crollo dell’advertising che ha fatto venir meno risorse essenziali al sistema dei media. In più la maggior parte dell’advertising in Internet è intermediato da società che  non sono editoriali, ma player nativi (come Google, Facebook ecc.).

The report pinpoints multiple signs of shrinking reporting power. For newspapers, estimates for newsroom cutbacks in 2012 put industry employment down 30% since its peak in 2000 and below 40,000 employees for the first time since 1978. On local television, where audiences were down across every key time slot in 2012, news stories have shrunk in length, and, compared with 2005, coverage of government has been cut in half and sports, weather and traffic now account for 40% of the content. On cable, coverage of live events during the day, which often requires a crew and correspondent, fell 30% from 2007 to 2012, while interview segments were up 31%. And among news magazines, the end of Newsweek’s print edition coincided with another round of staff cuts, and Time, the only general news print magazine left, announced cuts of roughly 5% in early 2013 as a part of broader company layoffs.

Insomma: per compensare il calo della pubblicità bisognerebbe avere più persone disposte a pagare per l’informazione, ma al tempo stesso, la scarsa qualità dell’informazione, causata dal calo della pubblicità e dai tagli che ne sono susseguiti, sta minando la credibilità delle testate giornalistiche che perdono lettori. Per ora non se ne esce. Unici dati positivi: il sistema dei paywall sembra funzionare.

Some 450 of the nation’s 1,380 dailies (33%) have started or announced plans for some kind of paid content subscription or paywall plan, in many cases opting for the metered model that allows a certain level of free access before requiring users to pay. This is already helping rebalance the print industry’s heavy reliance on advertising over subscription revenue. Indeed, digital advertising for newspapers grew only at an anemic 3% rate in 2012. At the New York Times, circulation now accounts for more than advertising revenue – attributed in large part to its two year-old digital subscription program. Small and midsize papers, while not near an even split are seeing success as well.

E anche lo sponsored advertising sembra andare bene. Però quest’ultimo pone un enorme problema di credibilità alle testate tradizionali.

State of the Media 2013

Anche Hitler non ha preso bene la decisione di Google di spegnere Google Reader a partire dal primo luglio prossimo.

“What are my alternatives now, huh?” he shouts. “Getting my news from what’s retweeted by Stalin?”

YouTube via Mashable (abbastanza NSFW)

A lot of newspapers have embraced the digital rhetoric too eagerly, and have not articulated their own value to the public. A lot of what we hear from internet pundits is that everyone should be building their own reading lists, everyone should be on the lookout for interesting stories themselves, I think that logic is very regressive, backward, anti-democratic and stupid. I’m fine with a staff of 300 people reading 5,000 stories everyday and condensing them into 25 pages that I myself can read. That’s a wonderful model. The newspaper offers something very different from Google’s aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world. Newspapers need to start articulating that value.

Intervista di Evgeny Morozov a Jan Tucker dell’Observer. A volta Morozov è troppo schematico, ma la sua critica del “soluzionismo” di molti web-guru, secondo me, arriva a bersaglio. Qui, tra l’altro, dice cose  sensate sul valore delle testate giornalistiche, anche se banalizza il discorso sul pubblico che diventa produttore.

The Observer

We want 100% of parliament, not 20% or 25% or 30%. When the movement gets to 100% when the citizens become the state, the movement will no longer need to exist.

Intervista di Beppe Grillo a Stephan Faris, pubblicata oggi da Time.

Time