studying the media ecosystem
What kind of news media will we have if people become accustomed to free content? That question, raised at a recent Cybersalon, reverberates in a KPMG study ( see press release) that shows phone users want content on the go — but are divided about whether they want to pay more for it.
Thanks to Paid [...]
Will the viral power of the Internet combine with the seductiveness of television to create the ultimate fad machine? Or are we already there? That’s what I wonder when I read a MediaPost report describing how a panel of online executives told the Advertising Research Bureau that television and the Internet “were meldling.”
The article went [...]
Search engines put so much information at our fingertips that we’re getting accustomed to getting it without paying, computer industry consultant Josh Greenbaum said at a Cybersalon in Berkeley last night. “We are proceeding on the premise that information is free,” he said.
Greenbaum’s remark was an interesting aside during a discussion that looked at how [...]
So nowadays everybody can be a journalist. Cell phones with digital cameras create images one upload away from publication on the Web. The ethic that emerges from this may be no ethic at all: publish first, apologize later. What the medium allows becomes what the medium demands, a case in point being the pictures of [...]
The advent of radio and later television challenged print journalism in ways that helped alter the ethical norms of gathering and presenting news. The shits that occured over the last 80 years, which made “objectivity” the journalistic gold standard, offer insights into how the rules of journalism may be shifting today as Web media challenge [...]
America has a rich tradition of journalism — and shifting standard of ethics — going back to the pre-revolutionary era when the printer’s pamphlet was much like the modern blog: opionated, edgy and often irreverant. In fact one of the first stabs at journalism ethics could be Benjamin Franklin’s “Apology for Printers,” published around 1731. [...]
Thinking back to my time at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, some of my strongest memories are of the discussions and lectures on journalism ethics. To be honest, at the time I thought it was a lot of hand-wringing. After 15 years in the trenches maybe I have more to wring my [...]
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