 |
News University |
Today's most popular courses on NewsU, Poynter's e-learning site for journalists. |
|
|
|
Webinars |
Our online classroom is just a click away. Learn more. |
|
|
|
 
Media
News
Reporting
& Writing
Ethics &
Diversity
Leadership &
Management
Visual
Journalism
Online &
Multimedia
TV &
Radio
Journalism
Education
|
 |
* = We were unable to retrieve posts from this blog in the last week
|
refresh
-
Number of comments: 12 With the issue of charging for online content the hottest topic in publishing circles, polls are popping up everywhere purporting to divine consumer sentiment. But they unfortunately are all over the map. Thus, the surveys are providing neither guidance nor comfort for publishers as they agonize over whether or how [...]
-
Number of comments: 3 Health, wealth and sex are what sell the best on pay sites on the web, says the author of perhaps the most comprehensive survey to date of interactive revenue strategies. After systematically surveying 550 subscription and membership sites, Anne Holland, who is best know as the founder and former proprietor [...]
-
Number of comments: 23 A year ago, Alan Jacobson, a talented and indefatigably innovative newspaper designer, came up with an idea for a highly targeted, efficient-to-produce and effortlessly viral website that is exactly the sort of thing newspapers need to strengthen their online franchises. After spending many frustrating months trying to interest publishers in [...]
-
Number of comments: 19 The news media succumbed to ugly ethnic and religious profiling in their coverage of the shooting last week at Fort Hood. Shame on them. Media executives ought to closely review their coverage of the Fort Hood massacre to develop sufficient organizational discipline to avoid spreading in the future the sort [...]
-
Number of comments: 15 While the editors of some notable non-profit news startups pull down hefty six-figure salaries, the founding editor of the Chicago News Cooperative says his pay will be a single digit for the next 12 months: $0. That low, low introductory salary in part is testimony to the dedication of co-op [...]
-
Number of comments: 22 The resolve to charge for most interactive content is dissolving at some newspapers, potentially thwarting the plans of other publishers who still hope to erect pay walls on their sites. Despite determined statements by several publishers earlier this year that they intended to make consumers pay for the valuable content [...]
-
Number of comments: 25 The Harvard conference tasked with finding new business models for journalism had the impossible mission yesterday of trying to solve a problem no one had the language to describe, the tools to measure or the skills to fix. In other words, the conference resembled the primitive study of physics before [...]
-
Number of comments: 5 Some 50 of the foremost thinkers about journalism have been invited to Harvard University today to ponder no less a problem than this: ?How to Make Money in News: New Business Models for the 21st Century.? The event commences at 9 a.m. and is scheduled to adjourn at 2:30 p.m., [...]
-
Number of comments: 12 At a time newspapers ought be striving to earn the confidence of their remaining advertisers, they are reporting not just record low circulation numbers but also the murkiest figures ever. The historic 10.6% drop in circulation reported on Monday would have been trouble enough for the ailing newspaper industry. But [...]
-
Number of comments: 16 The devastating double-digit drop in daily newspaper circulation in the last 12 months leaves little doubt that the classic mass media model will not work for newspapers ? or perhaps any other medium, either. Publishers who think their businesses are going to live or die according to the number of [...]
-
Number of comments: 29 Following an average drop of 10.6% in the last 12 months, daily newspaper circulation has fallen to a pre-World War II low of an estimated 39.1 million, according to an analysis of industry data released today.The first double-digit circulation decline in history means only 12.9% of the U.S. population buys [...]
-
Number of comments: 11 At first glance, Newsday appears to be making a bold move by becoming the biggest newspaper to date to start charging for most of its content on the web after giving it away for free for years. But the move isn?t really that brave. The newspaper is hedging its bets [...]
-
Number of comments: 3 Add news embargoes to the growing jumble of detritus in the hellbox of journalism history. In an age of insta-news, embargoes are so meaningless and unenforceable that they aren?t worth the pixels they are printed on. As a consequence, publicity seekers are on notice that they no longer will be [...]
-
Number of comments: 17 For all the drama conveyed yesterday by the vote of no confidence in mainstream journalism rendered by one of the nation?s top journalism schools, the 98-page study issued by Columbia University is perhaps most significant for what it doesn?t say. While cataloguing a host of previously discussed potential fixes for [...]
-
Number of comments: 10 Writing off the capacity of the traditional media to continue ably covering the news, a report commissioned by the journalism school at Columbia University calls upon the feds, foundations and journalism faculties to take up the slack.In the 98-page report commissioned by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, [...]
-
Number of comments: 5 Given the scant hope of attracting a respectable price for the Boston Globe, it?s not surprising that the New York Times Co. pulled the paper off the market. The lingering question is why the company thought it had a shot of pulling off an acceptable deal in the first place.In [...]
-
Number of comments: 30 The first job of a newspaper is to set the agenda for the community. That most inspiring thought, from Howard M. Ziff, one of my most inspiring journalism professors at the University of Illinois, came to mind when I read that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has decided to stop endorsing candidates [...]
-
Number of comments: 11 Editors across the land couldn?t let Newspaper Week pass this week without wantonly violating the primary rule in medicine and marketing: First, do no harm. ?Talk of the demise of newspapers is premature,? said the headline on an editorial in the Aiken Standard that was typical of the faux-plucky tone [...]
-
Number of comments: 28 At almost the very moment former publisher John Temple candidly told the Berkeley media-technology conference last week the reasons why the Rocky Mountain News succumbed, the Rocky Mountain Independent was drawing its final breath.The Independent was the second in a series of online news sites established by several Rocky veterans [...]
-
Number of comments: 17 Publishers groping with the question of when, whether and how to charge for interactive content often raise the issue of what they could sell, if indeed they ever decided to try. Here?s a quick checklist to see if you are ready:1. You cannot charge for such commoditized content as world, [...]
-
Number of comments: 9 They said it couldn?t be done. But it was.They said a conference about the future of journalism couldn?t take place without the usual kvetching about the golden, olden days, with publishers grieving shriveled margins and editors caviling about the bloggers challenging their previously unassailable wisdom. But we did it. The [...]
-
Number of comments: 0 The UCBerkeley Media Technology Summit at the Googleplex in Silicon Valley is being live-blogged now in the window below, thanks to participant Chuck Peters, the tech-savvy chief executive of the Gazette Co. in Cedar Rapids, IA. The summit, which will run through mid-day Thursday, is intended to provide more than [...]
-
Number of comments: 10 Second of two parts. The first part is here. The five-member staff of the Chi-Town Daily News was laid off after Labor Day when its founder could not raise the $300,000 necessary to fund the balance of its annual budget.But Pro Publica, the biggest of the new-breed journalism non-profits, is [...]
-
Number of comments: 12 First of two parts. The second part is here. The founder of the Chi-Town Daily News, a pioneering grassroots journalism project, happened to phone last week shortly before word got out that a wealthy businessman had donated $5 million to launch a major non-profit news venture in San Francisco.?I can?t [...]
-
Number of comments: 7 U.S. publishers planning to erect pay walls may want to take note of a new poll that found only 5% of newspaper site readers in the United Kingdom would be willing to pay for interactive content.In a Harris Interactive Poll conducted for PaidContent:UK, researchers found that 74% of respondents simply [...]
-
Number of comments: 9 A $5 million grant from a single philanthropist will fund the launch in the San Francisco area of the most ambitious project yet to build a non-profit news organization to fill the growing vacuum left by the contraction of the mainstream media.San Francisco businessman Warren Hellman today pledged $5 million [...]
-
Number of comments: 18 A number of readers disagreed sharply with my suggestion that newspaper unions may be losing their relevance. One of them was Andy Zipser, the editor of The Guild Reporter, the official publication of The Newspaper Guild-CWA. Here?s what he had to say:By Andy ZipserThe Newsosaur, in a lengthy posting Monday, [...]
-
Number of comments: 27 Union members at the Sun-Times Media Group never have been more powerful than they are today, but the power they wield is a weapon of mass self-destruction.The unions can continue voting ? as they did last week ? against the sweeping wage and other contract concessions being demanded by the [...]
-
Number of comments: 5 In a captivating and inspiring new book, John Maxwell Hamilton, a former foreign correspondent who now is dean of the Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University, gives a great deal of credit to the Chicago Daily News for pioneering foreign news coverage among American newspapers.Although the Daily [...]
-
Number of comments: 18 Newspapers trying to assess the financial impact of potential paid-content schemes are starting with a wildly inflated sense of the size of their online audience that could come back to bite them in a big way. In ?nearly every market? included in a study of 118 newspapers of every size [...]
-
Number of comments: 14 If the willingness of consumers to pay for online news turns on how much it will cost, a bit of early research suggests the ideal price may be less than some pay-wall proponents might hope.In work conducted in the course of his newly completed study for the American Press Institute, [...]
-
Number of comments: 6 After the New York Times last week dubbed the ViewPass project ?dormant,? a number of people have asked what happened to my proposal for an industry-owned solution to do a better job of monetizing newspaper web traffic. Here?s the answer:ViewPass was proposed as a publisher-financed and -owned solution to monetize [...]
-
Number of comments: 23 A bare 51% of the newspaper publishers in the United States believe they can charge successfully for access to their interactive content, according to a survey released today. The other 49% of publishers either fear that pay walls will fail or just aren?t sure.The survey, which was conducted for the [...]
-
Number of comments: 12 While I defend the right of the Associated Press to distribute the controversial picture of a mortally wounded Marine in Afghanistan, I can?t support its decision to do so.The controversy came to light over the Labor Day weekend when Defense Secretary Robert Gates begged the AP to honor the request [...]
-
Number of comments: 4 The money-losing Sun-Times Media Group can be turned into a modestly profitable business by the end of 2011, says the chief executive who took the company into bankruptcy court and plans to stick around to lead it back into the black.?The days of a newspaper company running 20% to 35% [...]
-
Number of comments: 6 More cuts, more drama and more trauma almost certainly lie ahead for the Sun-Times Media Group now that a civic-minded businessman has stepped forward to buy a company that probably could not otherwise have lasted out the year.In the latest twist in 25 years of always colorful and often dysfunctional [...]
-
Number of comments: 5 I just got back from my first fully Yelp-enabled vacation and it was the best ever. As the late, great Karl Malden said in his American Express pitch: Don?t leave home without it.Although tens of millions of savvy Internet consumers know about Yelp, I find that an amazing number of [...]
-
Number of comments: 3 Sam Zell may (or may not) be headed for the exit as head of the Tribune Co., where he personally lost $325 million as the result of his recklessly financed acquisition of the company. But it looks like he is going to be all right.The man who proudly characterizes himself [...]
-
Number of comments: 13 In round numbers, total newspaper advertising sales are likely to drop by $10 billion in 2009, which would put them roughly one-third lower than they were in the prior disastrous year.Based on the 29.0% skid in advertising sales in the second quarter of this year that was reported on Friday, [...]
-
Number of comments: 33 Third of three parts. Parts one and two. If publishers are blocked for the most part from charging for content in the inherently open and unruly interactive marketplace, then what can they do? Go with the flow.And the flow on the web is to provide consumers with unencumbered access to [...]
-
Number of comments: 14 Second of three parts. Part one is here. Part three is here.Fear, in a word, is the reason why publishers are treading so cautiously when it comes to charging for the valuable interactive content they have been giving away for more than a decade. It is a good, healthy fear, [...]
-
Number of comments: 17 First of three parts. Part two. Part three.With their backs against the wall, 2009 was going to be the year that newspaper publishers finally got together to charge for the interactive content they have been giving away for free for more than a decade.Nearly two-thirds of the way into the [...]
-
Number of comments: 28 How could MSNBC.Com have scooped the newspaper industry by buying Everyblock.Com?If ever there were an application designed to fast-forward newspapers into at least the late 20th Century, then this was it.The fact that the leading hyperlocal website was snatched up by a multimedia partnership operated by NBC and Microsoft shows [...]
-
Number of comments: 14 There is a special drawer in my house containing a neatly wrapped copy of the final edition of the Chicago Daily News, where I worked until it ceased publication on March 4, 1978.So, I understand the affection and enduring sense of loss felt by a staff that has had a [...]
-
Number of comments: 7 Newspaper advertising sales are likely to bottom out after four straight years of decline in 2009, but they aren?t headed back to where they used to be, according to a new projection from Borrell Associates.In what passes nowadays for an upbeat take on the newspaper industry from an independent observer, [...]
-
Number of comments: 4 After remaining scrupulously silent for the 140 days that two of its journalists were held captive in North Korea, Current TV pulled out all the stops today after receiving word that Laura Ling and Euna Lee were safely on a plane home.The women, who had been arrested at the Chinese [...]
-
Number of comments: 10 Like a pair of proud but over-the-hill prizefighters, the Sun-Times and Tribune are slugging it out in a deadly duel to determine who will remain standing as the sole daily in Chicago.Both newspapers are operating under Chapter 11 protection and both have seen far better days in terms of circulation [...]
-
Number of comments: 11 After some notable newspaper publishers this month reported better-than-expected gains in their second-quarter net profits, Wall Street responded by bidding up their battered shares. But let?s not get carried away. The improved earnings reflect one-off events that for the most part cannot be replicated if sagging ad sales fail to [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 30, 2009, 7:00am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 11 Looking at the news business from the hard-nosed perspective of a venture capitalist, John Thornton rapidly concluded that ?serious journalism is never going to be a good business again.?But that didn?t stop Thornton, a successful partner at the Austin Ventures investment fund, from putting $1 million of his own money [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 24, 2009, 7:00am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 13 If the near-term prospects for the housing market are grim, the outlook appears to be even worse for an eventual recovery for real estate advertising in newspapers.That?s the impresion left from a survey released today by the Aim Group, a consulting organization that used to be known as Classified Intelligence. [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 22, 2009, 7:00am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 14 There never will be another journalist with the stature, authority and power of Walter Cronkite.We were lucky to have him at the CBS anchor desk during the 1960s and 1970s, two of the most turbulent decades in modern history.But the accelerating disintegration of the media assures that no one ever [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 18, 2009, 11:18am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 8 The newsweekly model is so badly frayed that operating BusinessWeek as usual probably won?t be possible for whoever coughs up the putative $1 it will take to acquire the magazine.Assuming a buyer materializes, an extreme makeover will be required to steer BusinessWeek toward profitability at a time when diminishing readership, [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 15, 2009, 7:00am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 10 The dicarded plan to sell seats at dinner with the publisher of the Washington Post shouldn?t be taken by newspapers as a reason to avoid hosting profit-making events that deliver journalistic and public-service benefits to their communities.The key in organizing for-profit (and pro bono) events is to keep your commercial [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 13, 2009, 9:57am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 24 The mainstream media may have covered the bejabbers out of the death of Michael Jackson, but they hardly covered themselves in glory.The sudden death of the pop star overshadowed all manner of truly significant national and international news for nearly two weeks. And coverage of his memorial service dominated television [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 08, 2009, 1:29pm EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 6 The Inland Press Association today reissued an online summary of a newspaper-profitability study after questions were raised about it.The original summary of the findings was the basis for this Newsosaur post, which stated that Inland found newspapers with circulation greater than 80,000 suffered a 100.1% drop in operating earnings since [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 07, 2009, 7:19pm EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 15 UPDATED 4:21 PM - July 7, 2009: The Inland Press Association today reissued the summary of the study on which this post was based. The major change is that 12% is the average profitability of large newspapers in the last five years, not solely in 2008. Although the original post [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 07, 2009, 7:00am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 11 Macy?s has cut in half the amount of money it spends on newspaper advertising since 2005, depriving the struggling industry of some $616 million in sorely needed revenues.The drastic plunge has hit particularly hard the metro papers that used to rely on sumptuous and highly profitable schedules from the likes [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 06, 2009, 7:00am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 25 Hey, fellow armchair copyeditors, do you see anything wrong with this sentence at the Los Angeles Times website??Two senior Los Angeles Times editors were given new responsibilities today as part of an effort to create a 24-hour newsroom serving multiple mediums.?The blunder, of course, is the inappropriate use of ?mediums? [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:12pm EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 61 My doubts are growing about whether we can rely on volunteers to produce credible journalism for a sustainable period of time.Although a number of do-it-yourself ventures have embraced modern technology to attempt to fill the void created by the retrenchment of the mainstream media, there is scant evidence to date [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: June 22, 2009, 3:01am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 16 There is a new Twitter feed here to alert you to every future post on Newsosaur, if you happen to care.But there is strong evidence that you may not, according to a new Harvard Business School study of 300,542 inviduals. The research found that ?most people? only tweet once in [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: June 10, 2009, 9:17pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 7 ?You got spunk,? barked Lou Grant at Mary Richards on the old Mary Tyler Moore show. ?I hate spunk.?The quote came to mind today when I read the obit of Sarah Snyder, a much beloved and talented editor at the Boston Globe who died Sunday well before her time at [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: June 09, 2009, 11:12pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 11 There are many unsettling parallels between newspapers and General Motors, the iconic American corporation struggling to regain its financial health and vigor as a consumer brand.But there is a major difference between the opportunity that lies ahead for publishers and the continuing challenges facing America?s No. 1 disgraced automaker. Publishers [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: June 08, 2009, 7:25am EDT
-
Number of comments: 28 Now that I have offered newspaper publishers a potential solution to building revenues and improving their strategic position in the interactive age, some commentators have raised the legitimate question of whether this blog can be trusted.Sidestepping the obvious issue of whether anyone should have trusted me in the first place, [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: June 05, 2009, 9:04am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 39 Yes, it?s true. As reported today by the Nieman Journalism Lab, I was one of the three people who presented ideas to newspaper publishers at the (formerly) under-the-radar meeting to explore ways to monetize content.In a minute, I will share what I can of what I told the publishers. And [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: June 04, 2009, 12:42pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 29 In the worst quarter in modern history for American newspapers, advertising sales fell by an unprecedented 28.3% in the first three months of 2009, plunging sales by more than $2.6 billion from the prior year.Statistics posted without publicity on the website of the Newspaper Association of America show that print [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: June 01, 2009, 6:01am EDT
-
Number of comments: 23 Amid growing economic distress at newspapers and magazines, a number of folks have suggested imposing a BBC-style tax on American households to rescue the struggling print media.Could the idea work? Potentially. Would it help? Possibly. Could it really happen? You be the judge.Although the idea of a news tax raises [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 21, 2009, 12:30am EDT
-
Number of comments: 8 Working for free and doing just about everything at his bootstrap local website, veteran journalist David Boraks has become the sole source of news for his community in Davidson, NC. In this guest post, he describes life at what one of his readers calls the ?21st Century replacement for the [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 19, 2009, 11:56pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 16 The shutdown by Chrysler and General Motors of roughly 10% of the surviving auto dealers in the United States could cost newspapers and local broadcasters millions in annual revenues they can ill afford to lose.The forced closing of a combined 1,889 dealerships ordered last week by Chrysler and GM will [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 17, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 11 Newspapers sacrificed their moral authority and compromised their credibility in exchange for the gift of a token tax break from the governor and legislature in Washington State.While the 40% tax reduction in the state?s main business signed into law on Tuesday sounds impressive, it will save the jobs of perhaps [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 13, 2009, 11:55am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 1 As we celebrate the liberation of journalist Roxana Saberi from prison in Iran, don?t forget that two other innocent American newswomen are being held on similarly trumped-up charges in North Korea.Laura Ling and Euna Lee, two correspondents for San Francisco-based Current TV, have been detained in North Korea since March [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 11, 2009, 11:52am EDT
-
Number of comments: 1 They looked high and low for two years for a new dean for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley but it turns out the best man was there all the time: Professor Neil Henry.As a member of the adjunct faculty recently recruited by Neil, [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 10, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 32 This guest commentary comes from Bill Grueskin, the academic dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University and former managing editor of WSJ.Com. For an alternative look at Google?s role in the emerging news ecosystem, see this prior post, Don?t Blame Google for Newspaper Woes. By Bill GrueskinMarissa Mayer [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 07, 2009, 10:14pm EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 11 Apart from whatever modest cathartic effect it may have provided participants and observers, the qvetch-in over the fate of the newspaper industry hosted by Sen. John Kerry was pointless.Two days before the opening gavel struck Wednesday at the hearing called by the failed Democratic presidential candidate from Massachusetts, the outcome [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 07, 2009, 7:00am EDT
-
Number of comments: 23 Why do newspaper publishers think they can be saved by a clunky, electronic distraction like the double-wide Kindle DX introduced today?Do they really think anyone wants to spend $489 to lug around a clunky 10.4- by 7.2-inch tablet to read a static (that is to say non-interactive) version of the [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 06, 2009, 1:54pm EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 5 Blogs.Com, a guide assembled by humans for humans, asked me to name the 10 blogs I turn to most often for information and inspiration about how technology is changing the media business.It was exceedingly tough boiling the list down to only 10, but here it is, with apologies in advance [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 05, 2009, 8:57pm EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 11 Despite the recent uproar at the Chicago Tribune over road-testing stories with consumers prior to publication, there is nothing wrong with editors using market research to shape their publications.More of them should do it. And it?s pretty easy, too, as I?ll discuss in a moment.Well-executed research is a valuable tool [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 05, 2009, 9:58am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 6 A simple compromise on lifetime job guarantees is the right answer to breaking the impasse between the Boston Globe and its largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild.The compromise would be for the union to abandon the archaic concept of preserving lifetime jobs for its most senior members ? and for [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 04, 2009, 11:04am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 12 Richard M. Anderson, a publisher serving four Maine communities, has found a way to generate as much as a fifth of his ad revenue through hyperlocal websites featuring, among other things, blogs that are sponsored and maintained by local merchants. He tells how he does it in this guest commentary.By [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: May 01, 2009, 9:01am EDT by Newsosaur
-
Number of comments: 14 One journalism start-up tries to restore things to the way they were. The other is looking to a different future. Bill Grueskin, academic dean at Columbia University?s Journalism School and a former managing editor of WSJ.Com, compares them in this guest post.By Bill GrueskinYou can learn a lot about where [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: April 28, 2009, 8:46pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 28 Instead of fretting about the all-time record dive in newspaper circulation the last six months, publishers should focus as never before on the quality, not the quantity, of their audience.That means, among other things, proving the passion and loyalty of their readers by raising the single-copy and home-delivery prices of [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: April 27, 2009, 11:24am EDT
-
Number of comments: 12 Beleaguered newspaper and magazine publishers may gain a certain amount of emotional satisfaction from mounting elaborate efforts to chase down online content poachers, but the payback may be more psychic than economic.While print publishers are well within their rights to crack down on web publishers who violate their copyrights through [...]
-
Number of comments: 1 Attributor pretty much represents the state of the art these days in tracking down copyright violators. To see how well it works, I took a test drive of the free version it offers to bloggers. The results are fair to middling. Attributor works by gathering all the content on a [...]
-
Number of comments: 5 Three American female journalists are being held on charges of spying in two of the scariest countries in the world but their news organizations couldn?t be treating the matters any more differently.Everyone knows that Roxana Saberi, a contributor to National Public Radio in Iran who has been in custody since [...]
-
Number of comments: 15 Peter Shankman, who describes himself as a marathon-running, sky-diving, cat-loving PR guy, says he is grossing nearly $1 million a year by using the web to help reporters find sources for stories.He crowdsources sources with a nifty and thoroughly modern service called Help a Reporter Out, or HARO. It works [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: April 20, 2009, 1:00am EDT
-
Number of comments: 30 Newspaper people are wasting time and wasting their breath in blaming Google for the failure of their products to thrive in the digital universe.They need to look to themselves ? not Google, Yahoo or some other third-party savior ? to begin strengthening their franchises and building up their businesses on [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: April 16, 2009, 10:39pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 23 By every measure, online advertising sales at newspapers seriously trail the growth of the rest of the interactive market in the United States. And the industry is falling farther and farther behind.The inability of newspapers to capture and retain their fair share of digital advertising likely is one of the [...]
-
Number of comments: 16 Although most newspapers rush to publish their scoops on the web as rapidly as they can, the Minneapolis Star Tribune has decided to break certain major stories and projects in print and not publish them on its website until a few days have passed. Editor Nancy Barnes tells why she [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: April 12, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 13 Alarmed by what they believe to be widespread piracy of their copyrighted material on the web, some publishers want to force companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to stop serving ads at sites carrying unauthorized newspaper content.The movement to target the pocketbooks of content poachers emerged this week at a [...]
-
Number of comments: 67 The more the problems of the media mount, the more that newspaper-bashing comments are flowing to this blog. As of today, the media bashers can save themselves the trouble, because I will reject them, one and all.Before I turn off the spigot, I want to share the mother of all [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: April 06, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 1 A unique, invitation-only conference for senior leaders of technology and media companies will be convened at the Googleplex this the fall by the University of California at Berkeley.The UCBerkeley Media Technology Summit, which is being sponsored jointly by the Graduate School of Journalism and Haas School of Business, will be [...]
-
Number of comments: 32 The way to charge for digitally delivered content is a prime topic on the minds of the newspaper publishers meeting in San Diego this week to contemplate the future of their badly battered industry.Even if charging for online or mobile content is not publicly discussed at the annual meeting of [...]
-
Number of comments: 9 The shocking banner headline today reporting the potential demise of the Boston Globe is greatly exaggerated.The story not only was vastly overplayed but also may serve to unnecessarily damage the newspaper?s already weakened business. The editors, who evidently let emotion overcome their news judgment, should have known better.While it is [...]
-
Number of comments: 13 With furloughs becoming increasingly common in newsrooms, here are some thoughts on how to make the best of these potentially stressful situations.Get physical.Clean the closets. Paint the bathroom. Trim the rose bushes. Do something completely different from your normal routine that will clear your head and make your muscles ache. [...]
-
Number of comments: 1 The financial condition of the Sun-Times Media Group is far more dire than that any of the four newspaper companies that have preceded it in bankruptcy.The company?s bankruptcy filing today signals that management may be planning to break up the Sun-Times Group by selling a number of its 59 Chicago-area [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: March 31, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 8 Repeated budget cuts have gutted news coverage in state capitals across the country, creating the potential for what Paul Starr called a ?new era of corruption? in this must-read article in the New Republic.Dunstan McNichol, who took a buyout at the Newark Star-Ledger in December after a 30-year career in [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: March 29, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 9 Newspaper advertising sales in 2008 fell by a record $7.5 billion, or 16.6%, according to yearend figures reported today by the Newspaper Association of America.Print and online ad sales for the industry last year totaled $37.8 billion, as compared with a bit less than $45.4 billion in 2007.Sales declined at [...]
-
Number of comments: 15 The closely watched online incarnation of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is starting its new life with a number of disadvantages ? and almost certainly well in the red.Crisp and rapid execution, including an aggressive sales effort abetted by an uptick in the economy, will be required to enable SeattlePI.Com to reach [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: March 26, 2009, 12:00am EDT
-
Number of comments: 10 Thanks but no thanks, Sen. Benjamin Cardin. Congress doesn?t need to pass a law to allow newspapers to be owned by non-profit organizations.The St. Petersburg Times and the Christian Science Monitor already are owned by non-profits and they are struggling as much to make ends meet as most of their [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: March 25, 2009, 12:38am EDT
-
Number of comments: 11 Second of two parts. The first part is here. Proponents and opponents of paid content often invoke the subscription model at the Wall Street Journal Online as the reason for why their point of view is right.In the following guest commentary, Bill Grueskin, former managing editor of WSJ.Com, sorts through [...]
Share | Permalink
Posted: March 23, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
-
Number of comments: 19 First of two partsProponents and opponents of paid content often invoke the subscription model at the Wall Street Journal Online as the reason for why their point of view is right.In the following guest commentary, Bill Grueskin, former managing editor of WSJ.Com, sorts through what he calls ?a few common [...]
|
|
|
