Romenesko

Baltimore Sun
American Journalism Review editor Rem Rieder says when you get many television stations owned by one owner, you get more cookie-cutter products. "You're going to lose local character. And certainly that applies when one entity owns several forms of media in one town: You lose the competitiveness that's so important to good journalism." The proliferation of websites and bloggers has created an impression that there are sufficient voices in any given community, he says. "But there aren't enough voices that do original reporting."