Ainsley to Globe: "We have to succeed"

Wanted: friendly advice for the Globe

Dont Quote Me — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:07:46 GMT

In today's memo announcing the elimination of up to 50 newsroom jobs, Globe editor Marty Baron makes

re: Ainsley to Globe: "We have to succeed"

J. Jones — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:53:34 GMT

Publisher Ainsley's comments are heavy on the cliches and "I wish I may I wish I mights." If he were my publisher I would be disturbed by the anemic vagueries and lackluster rah-rahs.

Who has their ear to the ground? Who is watching the horizon?

A man who is not a fan of business books, is not a man with an open mind. It's nice, however,that he has a favorite book. His employees can only hope that it has all the answers that they will all need over the many months ahead.

re: Ainsley to Globe: "We have to succeed"

aging cynic — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:43:04 GMT

To John Gatti: when you don't take ownership of the results of your actions, failure isn't really all that bad. The level of intellectual dishonesty is such that the "objectivity" ship has sailed. I'm not sure Renee Loth & Co. even understand the depths of their alienation from their "customers". It has been a long time since they wrote for anyone but themselves.

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John Gatti Jr — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:37:24 GMT

I want the Boston Globe and its sister Massachusetts paper Worcester Telegram to succeed. A free press and our press freedoms must survive.

However, they must stabilize and improve their objectivity and access to all viewpoints.

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Carly Carioli — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:28:04 GMT

Well, as long as everyone's on the bus -- and they're in the right seat -- I'm sure everyone over there will be fine.

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Daily Intel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:45:14 GMT

Unrelated … or are they?

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Phogg — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:27:57 GMT

"Journalism" professionals STILL can not Identify their competition.

If you have an automotive engineer who writes an insightful three page description of an engine his team is developing every three years, that used to not be a problem. Even though it was just as well written as someone with a journalism or English degree might write.

It was one article every three years that only the man's friends were likely to see. If they shared it, well a few xerox copies mailed around still don't reach that many people even if it pyramids out seven times and by the time the last group gets it it will be a month later if they were being mailed.

Fast foreword to now.

There are thousands of engineers. Every 1095 of them writing once every three years equal one story a day. Written, generally, for free. As in costs no money. As in they are writing for their own vanity.

And on the web, writing in interest forums, or having those forums available as a place their friends might send the article - it will be seen.

Extend this out to other interests, because it carries over across the board.

Journalists keep looking at the picture trying to figure out how content producers are going to be paid in the new media.

The stopper is that they have to compete with people who write about any given subject as well or better than they possibly can WHO DON'T EXPECT TO BE PAID.

When the internet arrived and provided a means for people to disseminate their writings, this became inevitable. I saw it, Drudge saw it, hundreds and hundreds of people saw and have been discussing it for over a decade.

The dinosaur media is late to the party.

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re: Ainsley to Globe: "We have to succeed"

Ex-journo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:40:26 GMT

Like a cancer victim denying the inevitable end, the newspaper industry is on its death bed with blinders. Daily print editions do not work. Period.

So get over it and move on. The sooner the better for all those poor news folks about to lose their jobs.

Thank God for Boston.com. At least they have the beating pulse of the region.

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A fellow print journalist — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:19:28 GMT

"... we've got to believe to succeed." Wow, I've never heard a louder death knell. No, you have to have a good financial/business model. And the plain truth is that most newspapers just don't "get it" financially and are still trying to run their papers as if they have a monopoly on the print news market and the print advertising market. As a result, they're ego-centric, ignore their readers wishes, spend too much time writing stories that too few people read, treat advertisers badly, etc, etc. Fortunately the Web is bringing all that mistreatement to an end.