studying the media ecosystem
This morning I willl circle the globe in order to connect “Internet manhunts” in China with “flash mobs” in the United States, and end with cartoonist Tom Tomorrow who rebukes the New York Times for its coverage of the “netroots” energy in the recent U.S. Senate primary in Connecticut. My goal is to suggest that [...]
I recently found a training guide published under the auspices of the United Nations and aimed at journalists in the developing world. But after spending several hours last night skimming this 140-page PDF and exploring many previously unkown (to me) links, I think the document’s author, Martin Huckerby, has created an invaluable resource for [...]
Journalists are driven by a sense of mission. Or so they say. But the public may not agree. A recent Harris Poll asked a sample of Americans to rank the relatiive prestige of 23 professions and occupations. Only 16 percent of the respondents considered journalists as having “very great prestige.” They trailed highly-rated uniformed occupations [...]
Decision makers value business to business media and trade shows, according to a Center for Media Research distillation of a report by Harris Interactive. “Executives report they are more engaged/involved with B2B media than with general business magazines, television and newspapers,” according to the report. Here is a link to the full report. In a [...]
I’ve come back from a few days away to discover that Jay ( Press Think) Rosen has gotten seed money to start NewAssignment.net to support open source reporting projects. I saw a note in Paid Content and read the Q&A in which Rosen explains the idea. With a core of solid freelancers and a few [...]
(I’m on a brief vacation and reposted this entry in advance from my archive. Tom)
Wednesday I discussed a report on paid content. Thursday I offered a glimpse of (some of?) the vendors trying to popularize micropayments. Today I will summarize the debate that’s rippled through the blogosphere about whether or not micropayments will catch [...]
(I’m away on a brief vacation, and reprinting a posting from my archive. Tom)
In yesterday’s post about paid content I noted that buying monthly rather than annual subscriptions was the frequency preferred by most of the 17 million consumers who purchased info wares during the survey period. Couple that with the runaway success of [...]
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