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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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The Zogby International polling group surveyed newspaper editors and found that most editors believe the newspaper of the future will have three features:
they will be free
they will have more opinion
they will include more comments
The report goes on to say that 30 percent of those editors survey wanted to ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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I've been toying around with social media all day today, discussing the future of media with lots of smart friends -- particularly those who think that I'm a little half-cocked and off my rocker when it comes to the future of journalism.
It's good, mostly. It certainly ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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Part of my lectures on the future of media are spent railing against newspapers companies inability to innovate in publishing, the very field they are the so-called experts in.
How, I ask, could a newspaper not have invented one of the first blogging content management system? These are simple ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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The New York Times has a story about that traces how IDG, one of the largest tech news publishers, turned InfoWorld from a failing print magazine into a wildly profitable online-news operation.
There's two things that stand out to me from this piece:
how incredibly "duh" much of what the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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Pulitzer Prize winning business writer Steve Pearlstein gave a talk at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference this week. Unbeknownst to me, the solution to the news industry's failings have already been figured out.
You can read the full story here, but check out this excerpt:
“And ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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All the blog research says that you're headlines should be of a positive nature to attract readers. I don't always do that. I'm doing it right now.
::Props::
I've been scanning The Wired Journalist site, a place where journalists can congregate to discuss what's going on at the papers -- ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Modern Journalist reader TJ, webmaster for WWJ 950 in Detroit, instant messaged me a story about the top eight Ohio newspapers sharing content with each other.
It seems the top papers, which are spread geographically far enough that there is little competition between them, have set up an Intranet ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
I'm reading Mark Glaser's recap of my alma mater's latest journalism conference, Crisis in News.
Now, I'm not going to bag on Glaser or my school because frankly, I don't know Glaser and I paid a boatload of money to go to Cal-Berkeley. However, I am going take issue with the ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
I'm completely baffled whenever I read stories about the changing media landscape and layoffs. The world has very clearly changed dramatically in terms of media, consumption, creation and audience. We know this. We know that it's left the realm of the technophiles and moved into a more mainstream ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
If traditional media outlets don't find a way to move from a product to a service model (with apologies to Jim Griffin, since I'm stealing his line about the music industry and co-opting it for media), modern media companies are going to wipe them across the floor. That's my ...
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