The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a great American newspaper, will join the Rocky Mountain News and many smaller daily newspapers Tuesday when it publishes its last print edition.
Clay Shirky, a writer and new media professor at NYU, has written an essay for our times "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable." Have some courage, give it a read and let me know what you think.
Here's an excerpt to whet your curiosity:
"Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That’s been a fine accident to have, but when that accident stops, as it is stopping before our eyes, we’re going to need lots of other ways to strengthen journalism instead.
"When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers’ to 'save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work."
Read the full essay.
Our Monday traffic was just below budget with 32,139 uniques and 163,936 page views.
Let's step up our efforts at feeding breaking news to Andrew (he's working from home but gets his seacoastonline email) and Alexa throughout the day and we should get right back on track.
Top two items are photo galleries from Winnacunnet and Portsmouth championship games.
1. Flash Gallery: Winnacunnet girls win title 5,812
2. Flash Gallery: PHS boys hoops- state champs 5,096 3. Article: $350K cash bail set for PHS grad facing 14 felonies 2,940
4. Article: Police: Felon arrested in burglary spree 2,286
5. Article: Portsmouth police log 2,146
6. Article: Motorcyclist in critical condition after Sunday crash 2,082
7. Article: Teen found unresponsive at The Page pleads guilty to alcohol charge 1,505
8. Article: 4 injured when car crashes near NH gas pump 1,426
9. Flash Gallery: Tower House Rye 1,190
10. Flash Gallery: Newmarket Championship Game 1,003
11. Article: Going great guns: Handheld, semiautomatic sales increase 946
12. Flash Gallery: Reader photos - March 2009 860
13. Article: Sports PHS title extra special for Mulveys 809
14. Article: York teachers vote 'no' on renegotiating salary increase 779
15. Article: Entertain ‘Ghost Hunters’ episode at Star Island airs Wednesday 751
16. Article: $50K bail set for driver facing drug charges after traffic stop 732
17. Article: Suspect in spate of burglaries apprehended in Portsmouth 694
18. Flash Gallery: Winnacunnet vs. Exeter Prelim 690
19. Article: N.H.'s corpse flower about to bloom again 546 0.3%
20. Article: Snowmobiler sentenced for hit-and-run accident 513
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