NEW YORK (AP) - Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be “like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons,” a new consumer survey suggests.
That was one of several bleak headlines in the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual assessment of the state of the news industry, released Sunday.
The national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, has long been intimidated by the Murdoch press in the obsessive manner of the campaign waged against the BBC. Funded directly by governments, the ABC has none of the nominal independence afforded by a licence fee. Last year, HarperCollins, owned by Murdoch, was awarded a lucrative “partnership” with ABC Books.
In 1983, there were 50 major corporations dominating the world’s media. By 2002, this had been reduced to nine. Rupert Murdoch says that eventually there will be three, including his own. If we accept this, media and information control will be the same, and we all shall be citizens of a murdochracy.
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Kansas won its 2,000th game on Thursday, joining Kentucky and North Carolina in the elite club. Taylor has been around for 57 of those wins, but he feels enough ownership that he would prefer he didn’t have to give the shirt to his mother, Jeanell. She is from Hoboken, N.J., she now lives in Lawrence and she inevitably ends up with the spoils of victory that her talented son receives on days like these.
News release prepared by: Nellie Ryan, 785-532-6415, media@k-state.edu
K-STATE JOURNALISM EXPERT SAYS INTERNET CHANGING NEWS, NEWSPAPERS
MANHATTAN — News is changing in several ways and innovation is taking place at record-breaking speed, according to Angela Powers, director of the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University.
Powers researches influences on news content, media leadership and ethics, and media convergence.
“Some newspapers in the U.S. are laying off people, closing their doors,” she said. “Yet, other newspapers have an enthusiasm for new methods and techniques for gathering news and information that is completely changing the way they’re doing business.”
Part of that transformation has to do with the Internet, which has created massive interconnectedness, Powers said.
“Journalists are now routinely producing original content for the Internet and determining which medium is most appropriate, rather than simply covering a story for print or electronic media,” she said. (more…)
Tiger Woods is likely to make his return to golf during the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga., next month, sources say, but they insist Woods has not made his final decision yet.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas will be going for the 2,000th win in school history Thursday when it plays Texas Tech in the Big 12 Tournament. KU would become the third program to hit the 2,000 mark, following Kentucky and North Carolina, both of which reached the milestone earlier this season.
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(Reuters) - The NFL has signed a four-year agreement with Verizon Wireless to show live games and highlights on mobile phones in a deal U.S. media reported was worth $720 million.
Britain is to give 42m condoms to South Africa in response to a request for an extra billion as part of an HIV prevention drive before the World Cup, the government will announce today.
The request for British help in stockpiling sufficient condoms for the expected influx of thousands of football supporters in three months’ time was made during President Jacob Zuma’s recent visit to the UK to meet the Queen.
Their places in the NCAA tournament appear secure, so Kansas, Kansas State and Missouri might not have much to play for in this week’s Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City besides improving their seeds. Still, The Star’s beat writers say the three teams have room for improvement.
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Missing his smile and aura of invincibility, Tiger Woods finally showed his face to a waiting world Friday and apologized again for cheating on his wife, without revealing the scope of his infidelity or when he will return to golf.
JCCC will honor a total of 124 students associated with athletics department at tonight’s annual Academic Awards ceremony following the women’s basketball game.
These 124 students posted a grade point average of 3.0 or better during the fall semester. Additionally, the top academic teams from the fall also will be honored. Some of the top teams last fall were volleyball with 80 percent of its roster at 3.0 or better. Baseball and softball were at 76 percent. Women’s basketball had 75 percent, women’s tennis 71 percent, men’s tennis 70 percent, women’s cross country 58 percent, women’s soccer 53 percent and men’s soccer 50 percent.
The JCCC women’s basketball game is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the men at 7:30 p.m.
The only mom on the U.S. women’s hockey team is teaching her youngsters to be respectful and generous to opponents who don’t have as much talent.
Jenny Potter is also putting on a dynamic goal-scoring exhibition that will have all the kids wanting to be like her someday.
US Thrashes Russia 13-0 In Women’s Hockey - Sports News Story - KMBC Kansas City.
Trouble is brewing over United States ice hockey goalie Jonathan Quick and the “Support Our Troops” slogan on his helmet. Slogans of this sort are banned under Olympic rules and Quick will be told to remove it, the International Ice Hockey Federation has told Reuters.
“Support Our Troops” slogan falls foul of Olympic rules | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.
Super Bowl XLIV is two days away, and just under half (49%) of adults who plan on watching the big game say they will be watching it intensely, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Nearly as many adults who plan on watching the Super Bowl (44%) will mostly be socializing while the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints duke it out on national television.
More men will be glued to the screen on Sunday than women. Female game-watchers will be socializing more.
Just 17% say they will place a bet, participate in a pool or wager money on the game in some other fashion. An overwhelming majority (80%) say they won’t gamble on the game.
Out of those who will gamble, 57% say their bet will be a serious one with real money. Thirty-eight percent (38%) say it will be a friendly wager for something like dinner or a drink.
49% of Super Bowl Watchers Plan to Watch “Intensely” - Rasmussen Reports™.
Pendergast was hired as defensive coordinator last year only because Romeo Crennel wasn’t available. Crennel accepted that job earlier this month, putting Pendergast out of the job.
AURORA, Ill. (January 29, 2010) - As the 2010 AMA Arenacross Series enters its fourth round of the season this weekend and makes its return to Kansas City’s Kemper Arena, the headlining story a quarter of the way through remains Babbitt’s Monster Energy/TiLube Kawasaki’s Tyler Bowers. After a total of six races, Bowers has grabbed the win all but one, including the last five in a row.
What’s more, the recession has cut deeply into donations. After posting its first loss two years ago of about US$30,000, the museum is looking at what one staffer termed “a monster loss” that could approach a quarter of a million dollars when the final accounting for 2009 is complete. For a relatively small museum that has always depended on the kindness of others, $200,000 is seismic.
Much of the revenue loss is traceable to a drop in licensing revenue. No one is predicting the museum’s imminent demise, but everyone agrees the trend must be reversed.
“For museums all over the country, dollars are becoming hard to find,” said Greg Baker, who took over as executive director a little more than a year ago. “We are challenged by that. We’ve got to raise money to keep going and if we don’t, we’ll end up closing our doors.”
Pendergast was hired as defensive coordinator last year only because Romeo Crennel wasn’t available. Crennel accepted that job earlier this month, putting Pendergast out of the job.
The announcement that sticks out is that former defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast is no longer with the team. He was replaced by Romeo Crennel two weeks ago. At that time, Kansas City head coach Todd Haley said he wanted Pendergast to stay with the team in some form.
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