Posted Thu Mar 05 12:30:38 PST 2009

The Death of the Newspaper (Crosscurrents podcast)

This podcast by Zoe Corneli of Crosscurrents, the daily news magazine from KALW Public Radio in San Francisco, documents the breakdown of traditional newspaper journalism, a big story in the Bay Area but also nationwide. With Denver's Rocky Mountain News just the latest in a series of newspaper closings, journalists are looking for new ways to document current events, including online journalism and mobile journalism. Corneli's interviews with Oakland Tribune's Martin Reynolds, an editor who's managed to survive by staying 'lean and mean,' Sarah Rich, of Dwell Magazine, and Alexis Madrigal, who with Rich created a wiki called the San Francisco Post Chronicle, which some are calling a model daily news organization for the future.