studying the media ecosystem
Taking a few days off for a working vacation ( helping my mon-in-law fix up the South Lake Tahoe vacation house so we can enjoy ski and swim outings later!) and sneaking off to a wi-fi hotspot to check on the realworldosphere . . . .
The Canadian startup NowPublic, gets $10.6 million in venture funding to expand a [...]
Amy Gahran says all-female panels like this are rare at tech/media conferences
Poynter Institute commentator Amy Gahran has been posting from Chicago where the BlogHer community of women-centric web publishers has been holding its third annual conference — which is also the group’s third anniversary.
Gahran’s summary of conference happenings included this nugget about how to encourage ”lurkers,” who visit sites but do not contribue content, to join the [...]
Print and online editor Tom Grubisich (pictured above) offers an encouraging yet level-headed look at the economics of hyperlocal journalism in a July 19 article in Online Journalism Review.
In his “back-of-the-envelope” analysis a five-person startup, drawing slim paychecks supplemented by stock options, could compensate contributors and still eke out a thin profit on an advertising base as low as $425,000 a year.
Grubisich cites market research data suggesting [...]
Just what makes that little old ant, think he’ll move that rubber tree plant . . . (High Hopes)
Americans, particularly young Americans, have tuned out the news; they are not only ignoring their grandparents’ medium, the newspaper, but also limiting their intake of public policy and political news through broadcast media; and it is by no means clear that people [...]
Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink.
That well worn rhyme sums up the sobering lesson in a July 2007 report, ”Young People and News,” in which Harvard University professor Thomas Patterson offered this analysis of news habits and news awareness based on interviews with 1800 randomly chosen respondents representing teens, young adults (18-30) and older adults (31 and above):
”The evidence shows that young [...]
A study commissioned by the National Newspaper Association (press release) and performed by Nielsen/Net Ratings says:
“more than 59 million people (37.3 percent of all active Internet users) visited newspaper Web sites on average during the second quarter of 2007, a record number that represents a 7.7 percent increase over the same period a year ago.”
Nielsen/Net Ratings (NNR) – [...]
Here’s a tip from Jeremy Milarsky of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. It’s a Firefox plug-in/toolbar that allows searches of various public-records sites and such.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3167
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fminimediaguy.org%2F2007%2F07%2F24%2Ffirefox-plug-in-speeds%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Firefox+plug-in+for+reporters%2C+investigators’;
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