In the furthest reaches of India’s rural heartland, the cellphone is bringing something that television, radio and even newspapers couldn’t deliver: Instant access to music, information, entertainment, news and even worship.
There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models.
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.
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.
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.
With journalists being laid off in droves, ideologues have stepped forward to provide the “reporting” that feeds the 24-hour news cycle.
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.
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.
Apparently there was a big meeting of news executives today in Chicago under the auspices of the Newspaper Association of America.
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.
If you wanted to pick the moment when the American news business went on suicide watch, it was almost exactly three years ago.
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?
When it comes to the type of applications iPhone owners use most, ones for checking the weather trump games, music, news and everything else.
Once again, Google is the favorite bogeyman responsible for the rapid deterioration in the health of the news industry.
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