Metro Wins Newspaper Of The Year Award, Every Media Crow You Know In Philly Very, Very Silent
We so, so wish we could wrap it up like so: Get the Newspaper Guild and Brian Tierney and the rest of the ghouls in a room, and say, “Look, this is what’s up. The Inky and the Daily News are dead in the water. In the immediate future, there are only going to be two kinds of newspapers: Free tabloids for people getting their news on the run, and boutique-y, think-piece type newspapers that are going to have to serve more than one market if they’re ever going to work at all. And we know that neither of you have the balls to do either, so unless you want EVERYONE to go jobless, you’re going to have to choose one.” That’s what we’ve been thinking lately, as the Metro is blazing trails while everybody over at Broad & Whatever is obsessed with checking how much they’ve shit their pants every 10 minutes. And sure, the Metro is losing money too — lots of it, in Euros, even! (and that’s REAL money) — but they are also in the game, highlighted most notably by the fact that they just nabbed “Newspaper of the Year” Award at the Festival of Media Awards in Valencia, Spain. Because everybody with their eyes open can see where this is going: The news is free. And it’s not going back.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:23 am
Metro CEO Per Mikael Jensen calls that look “Blue Steel”.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:37 am
the inquirer should put out a Metro-like version that features abstracts of their (longer) articles. then use their website to allow users to read the longer articles, if they’re interested. they’d save paper, have more relevance, and would have a way to separate the editorial wheat from the chaff.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:57 pm
It’s this sort of shit-talking with some wisdom that results in the Pulitzers giving nothing to a single online journalism outlet during the first year new media were eligible.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Inga Saffron came damn close to winning for her arch. articles as noted below:
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner (Criticism)
Awarded to Holland Cotter of The New York Times for his wide ranging reviews of art, from Manhattan to China, marked by acute observation, luminous writing and dramatic storytelling.
Finalists
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Inga Saffron of The Philadelphia Inquirer for her fascinating and convincing architectural critiques that boldly confront important topics, from urban planning issues to the newest skyscraper;
and Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe for his fresh, accessible and energetic reviews on the New England art scene, creating for readers a sense of discovery even as he provides discerning analysis.
http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2009