studying the media ecosystem
Yesterday I portrayed daily journalism as the dog that won’t hunt. Now a Columbia Journalism Review article, Beyond News, offers a different take on why newshounds may have gone astray. They continue to act as if they’re delivering new information when most of what they publish has been broadcast, web cast or gossip-cast before. Author Mitchell Stephens, a New York University journalism professor, said newspapers can no longer simply answer the five [...]
Having grown up in Brooklyn, speaking an accent that’s almost a dialect, I’ve always enjoyed regional idioms and the folk wisdom they reveal. One of my favorite acquired sayings is, “that dog won’t hunt.” That’s how good-old-boys describe actions or ideas they consider to be unworkable.
These days I think of newspaper journalism as a dog that won’t hunt. I say this sadly because I enjoy newspaper work. But facts [...]
(You’ve been doing well at publishing, technology and audience-building. Suddenly your online publication has become a business. Where can you find help in managing your startup?)
Sarting a Web 2.0 business is a game of twists and turns and success may come from an unexpected quarter when entrepreneurs follow the rules: build, test, assess and only then try to scale.
That’s the short [...]
(Josh Wolf is a freelance journalist and anarchist. He has been jailed for refusing to turn over videotapes of a protest being investigated by a federal grand jury. Online Journalism Review has written about his case; here is a bit more from Wikipedia; and from his own site. On Friday, December 1, 2006, I ran a reminder of his incarceration. I will write about his case every [...]
I took a perfunctory look at the National Conference on Media Reform in a prior blog post. Last night I paid another visit to the site and scanned a long and daunting list of issues and a chart showing the Big Eight media companies.
But what caught my attention was a speech by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders who linked media reform to a point close to home [...]
Obituaries are a mainstay of the local paper. Can local web publishers create a template for folks to write up their departed’s story? Pictures should be easy to add; video in time. Make the web posting of the obituary free. The publisher can, however, make money by delivering various hard copy mementos to friends and family (have you seen the new picture [...]
If you dream of profitable community journalism then treat yourself to Mike Orren’s first-person article in Online Journalism Review. As the co-founder (with Gary Cohen) of Pegasus News, Orren offers useful insights gleaned from trying to cover Dallas with an online media blanket that’s 142 neighborhoods wide but — as critic Tom Grubisich comments — is often press-release thin.
A related column by MarketWatch.com media follower Frank Barnako adds to our [...]
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