studying the media ecosystem
In a posting last week I blogged about a Boston Globe editorial titled “Don’t Stamp Out Brainy Mags.” The Globe criticized media giant Time Warner for trying to get the Postal Service to adopt a rate hike disadvantageous to “smaller magazines across the country, such as The Nation, the American Spectator, Ms., and The New [...]
Adam Bellow is a publisher on a mission. As co-founder of The New Pamphleteer he wants to revive the pamphlet and overthrow apathy. Gal Beckerman of CJR Daily spotlights Bellow in a pithy and lively Q&A. Beckerman prefaces the interview by saying “Bellow believes the Internet has become the central arena for intellectual debate in [...]
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I could move the world, Archimedes famously said. But what if the goal is to move public opinions? Are there principles of leverage to help move a mass of minds?
We have one advantage that eluded Archimedes. We can stand on the [...]
Yesterday was World Press Freedom Day and truth be told I’d never heard of it before a reminder from the International Center for Journalists landed in my e-mail basket at work.
This morning I learned that the event was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993 “to remind us all . . . [...]
“Secrecy has become a central axis of executive branch policy,” says University of El Paso-Texas political science professor William Weaver in a Mother Jones article titled, “Don’t whistle while you work.” Mojo’s investigative reporter Daniel Schulman writes: “the number of (document) classifications has nearly quadrupled from 1995 to 2005, from 3.6 million to [...]
News Corp. media Rupert Murdoch has made an unsolicited, megabucks offer to buy Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal ( here is a summary of the offer).
Why? Does he anticipate synergies between the buttoned-down Journal and the body-pierced MySpace. Probably not.
Paid Content offers Murdoch’s rationale for the deal but let’s ignore [...]
The Federal Communications Commission has rules that limit how many many media outlets — newspaper, television and radio stations — any one company can own in a given market (a local or metropolitan area). Media companies consider these rules archaic and want them relaxed so they might enjoy greater economies of scale and thus [...]
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