Ligna 2015 is over

We returned back home May 22, 2015 from Hannover via Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Ligna provided us with an impressive set of new and valuable information. The Baltic Sea round-trip did give us necessary added value about the economic climate along the road.

We're writing about the mechanical wood working industry for several months. Special reports are also delivered through printed media at a later time.

KK-Net spent eight days in Germany. Our mobile office and publishing platform was established at a cozy hotel in Celle. Everything worked fine, but the hours of the days limited our chances to tell everything at once.

Ligna 2015 is for us an investigative reporting project and we're spending quite a lot of time to dig into the available information and combining it with new stuff appearing through Internet research, Data mining and Interviews.

Our reports will be available in Finnish, English and Swedish languages. Please, have some patience, everything will not be available at once -- it will take months to get all the points of view and different themes written and distributed.

Stay tuned to this channel. There'll be country reports as well. Time will tell the final result.

Is journalism going to survive?

Creative destruction is no fun if it is your livelihood or beloved newspaper that is being destroyed. But research has convinced that journalism is being adapted, rethought and reconstructed in thousands of ways in far more places than can easily be grasped. 

 In short, there is enough experiment in train to be optimistic that economic sustainability will be found even if the experiments have a high failure rate.

In open societies, this takes the form of new communities of interest, new market players, new suppliers of news. 

Even in some closed societies, information can often flow down different routes in informal, unpredictable ways. 

Some of those new flows are – or may become – journalism.

http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2013/09/journalism-going-survive-era-creative-destruction

 

Journalism

 http://www.journalismfestival.com/news/hal-varian-on-the-economics-of-the-newspaper-business/

by Hal Varian 

Thank you, it is a great honor to accept this award on behalf of Google. We appreciate the recognition and the responsibility that accompanies it. 

I am an economist by training, and only a part-time journalist, so I want to focus my remarks on the economics of the newspaper business during this period of transition. 

Printed  newspaper circulation has been declining for 50 years In the US, newspaper circulation reached its peak in 1972 and it has been all downhill ever since. 

Experts agree that most of the decline during this period was due to competition from broadcast TV news and cable news, with the Internet contributing only in the last few years.

Reuters AlertNet - Twitter in Mumbai

The value of Twitter in the #Mumbai Terrorist Attack Reporting channel is scrutinized by Andrew Stroehlein. The tweets didn't, in his opinion, add with any substantial news. His critic is well founded from a news reporting and journalistic standpoint. Tweeters aren't professional journalists. But should we think about this as a conversational and therapeutic process that starts at the very beginning of an incident. There are of course also security concerns when tweets are disclosing things that "other side" can use for evil purposes. Tweets can also be used to deliver hatered and false information. The crowd doesn't act as a controlled, organized, well organized community. The crowd expresses feelings and sentiments. Traditional media focuses on "facts" and what is considered as "objective" information.

Reuters AlertNet - Twitter in Mumbai: "Written by: Andrew Stroehlein | Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone.

I will try to make this blog entry 140 characters long, since that is the longest possible message on Twitter, which some are raving about as a source of news during the Mumbai attacks. I'm not exactly convinced. And I'm already over 140 characters.

As someone who has previously equated 'citizen journalism' with 'citizen dentistry' Twitter heads were obviously going to have a hard time convincing me. There have been a few interesting articles trying to make the case with the attacks in Mumbai, however, including one from Mathew Ingram, who boldly claims 'Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism'.

Reuters also has had a good piece on 'citizen journalism' in the Mumbai case, as does France 24, CNN and others.

I remain sceptical, however. Looking through the Twitter search stream for 'Mumbai', I see so much useless information, I quickly get the feeling I am wasting my time. There are some personal notes -- very welcome no doubt if you have family or friends caught up in the madness and would like to know if they're OK, but it's not information that offers anything anyone can act upon..."

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