Comments on: Some cheer to end the journalistic year http://sarahhartley.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/some-cheer-to-end-the-journalistic-year/ The Hartley 2.0 blog, not as essential as H2O Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:47:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Reports greatly exaggerated? » pr-media-blog.co.uk http://sarahhartley.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/some-cheer-to-end-the-journalistic-year/#comment-280 Reports greatly exaggerated? » pr-media-blog.co.uk Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:13:28 +0000 http://sarahhartley.wordpress.com/?p=625#comment-280 [...] Things are not looking so good now. But Sarah Hartley, blogger and journalist at the Manchester Evening News, has captured some positive vibes for journalism in 2009. [...] [...] Things are not looking so good now. But Sarah Hartley, blogger and journalist at the Manchester Evening News, has captured some positive vibes for journalism in 2009. [...]

]]> By: jon clements http://sarahhartley.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/some-cheer-to-end-the-journalistic-year/#comment-279 jon clements Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:37:10 +0000 http://sarahhartley.wordpress.com/?p=625#comment-279 I was talking to a journalist from the London Evening Standard at the weekend who said that every Friday there is a heart-stopper at the moment, as it seems to be the day when more people are told they no longer have a job. But how many times has an industry been diagnosed as "dead", only to return in a different or evolved form? People feared the loss of storytelling when the oral tradition was replaced by the written word, but the appetite to know what's going on around us and share it remains to this day. It's the delivery of that content that has to change, but the skills needed to produce it are as vital as ever. I was talking to a journalist from the London Evening Standard at the weekend who said that every Friday there is a heart-stopper at the moment, as it seems to be the day when more people are told they no longer have a job.
But how many times has an industry been diagnosed as “dead”, only to return in a different or evolved form?
People feared the loss of storytelling when the oral tradition was replaced by the written word, but the appetite to know what’s going on around us and share it remains to this day. It’s the delivery of that content that has to change, but the skills needed to produce it are as vital as ever.

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