studying the media ecosystem
Michael Rosenblum, who has long advocated TV news on-the-cheap using solo journalists armed with video cameras, is apparently launching a new TV newsgathering operation. Some details appear in this posting by Terry Heaton who says Rosenblum has the backing of Verizon. “There’s money to be made in video news, regardless of how one goes about [...]
President Bush has signed a bill that will create a single web site where all federal spending can be tracked. Bloggers helped unfreeze the bill by finding out which two senators ( Stevens & Byrd) had used a parliamentary maneuver to put the legislation on ice. The blog pressure helped push the bill to the [...]
I took a brief and unannounced blogging “vacation” over the last few days to finish some do-it-yourself home repairs before the rainy season. Having frankly ignored the media news flow for several days, let me ease back into writing by linking my fix-it experiences to an essay about the demise of public school shop classes. [...]
Jay ( PressThink) Rosen and the University of Maryland’s J-Lab have both gotten grants to move citizen journalism into the field. Rosen got $100,000 from Reuters which he’ll use to hire an editor. In his own posting he describes the idea behind his project:
“Emily McKhann, an adviser to NewAssignment.Net who is starting her own [...]
The Associated Press recently reported that the Federal Communications Commission buried a staff report showing the downside of concentrated media ownership of television stations. Specifically that report “suggests that locally owned television broadcast stations air more local news than network-owned and operated and non-locally owned stations.”
Now StopBigMedia.com, an umbrella group of activist organizations, has posted [...]
What if I paused in mid sentence to tout my favorite soft drink? Well, then I’d be joining the fast growing advertising trend of product placement — inserting the advertisement into the content. A Center for Media Research brief says:
“product placement spending surged 42.2% to $2.21 billion in 2005 with double-digit growth expected to continue [...]
Low-power radio stations ( definition) can lure listeners away from the chain-owned boadcast stations that dominate the dial argues Stanford Business School professor Hayagreeva Rao based on a study of the phenomena.
But if too many low-power alternatives pop up in any given locale, none are likely to thrive. “Too much choice is demotivating,” said [...]
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