Tuesday, October 20, 2009
A Nerd’s Take on the Future of News Media
There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models.
Friday, October 16, 2009
News Corp Lawyer: Aggregators Steal From Us! News Corp: Hey Check Out Our Aggregator!
We’ve already covered how Rupert Murdoch has flip flopped his position on free online news, but his recent foray into blaming search engines and aggregators is really reaching the height of hypocrisy.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Hearst Launches Aggregator Site LMK
Hearst today launched LMK.com, a low-cost Web roundup on topics from college football to reality television.
(For the youth-challenged, “LMK” is the texting shorthand for “let me know.”)
LMK joins a crowded field of aggregation sites, which cull news and information from across the Web and organize them by topic or in other user-friendly ways. Other aggregators include Topix, Newser and Daylife, and sites like the Daily Beast that combine aggregation with their own content.
Monday, September 28, 2009
App Watch: Registering for Class on the iPhone
Stanford University was one of the first academic institutions to come out with an iPhone app last October. Now Stanford has debuted an upgrade, dubbed iStanford, which lets students search for courses, add or drop them and see their grades.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The Story Behind the Story
With journalists being laid off in droves, ideologues have stepped forward to provide the “reporting” that feeds the 24-hour news cycle.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Lots of Fee Ideas for Media Online
Five months ago, a group of media executives including Steven Brill seemed to have the field to itself when it said it was building a system for newspapers to charge readers for access online.
Monday, June 8, 2009
The Newspaper Suicide Pact
I think I’ll remember last week as the moment when I finally knew, with a certainty approaching fatigue, that the newspaper industry – the business and passion that both shaped and warped me over the past 20 years – had chosen ritual suicide.
Friday, May 29, 2009
How Charging for Articles Could Hobble The Future of Journalism
Apparently there was a big meeting of news executives today in Chicago under the auspices of the Newspaper Association of America.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The New York Times Envisions Version 2.0 Of The Newspaper
The New York Times Co.’s research and development group has some of the best views in their midtown skyscraper–24 floors above the newsrooms, higher even than the executives’ suites.
Monday, May 11, 2009
The American Press on Suicide Watch
If you wanted to pick the moment when the American news business went on suicide watch, it was almost exactly three years ago.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Kill Your RSS Reader
Monday, April 27, 2009
Journalists: Where Do You Add Value?
Every day, with everything they do, the key question for journalists and news organizations in these tight–that is, more efficient–times must be: Are you adding value? And if you’re not, why are you doing whatever you’re doing?
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
What iPhone Apps Are Used Most? Hint: Not Games.
When it comes to the type of applications iPhone owners use most, ones for checking the weather trump games, music, news and everything else.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Does Google Really Control the News?
Once again, Google is the favorite bogeyman responsible for the rapid deterioration in the health of the news industry.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Don’t Blame Google and Scribd for Your Own Business Model Problems
Another weekend goes by and another old school newspaper guy writes a long screed condemning Google as a menace hellbent on destroying all that is good and right in the news business.
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