studying the media ecosystem
Rob Curley talks fast, is proud of being from Kansas and pokes fun at Missouri any chance he gets. He has also led a series of successful web projects for newspapers in Lawrence, Kansas, Naples, Florida and, most recently at the Washington Post, where his credits include first-person video project called OnBeing.
Today Curley has launched [...]
On July 15 the U.S. Postal Service will hike second class mailing rates in a way that will clobber small magazines. The Boston Globe editorialized against this increase in April saying:
“(It) is based on a plan devised by Time Warner, the mammoth publisher of more than 100 magazines . . . (that) is generally considered fair to the [...]
It seems tough nowadays to get time or attention to any serious topic. The audience is busy and distracted. Traditional print and broadcast journalists are demoralized by cutbacks. The Internet is growing but rarely creating news and current events content, at least not with staff. Why hire writers in an age of user-generated content? But [...]
I have been following the twin complaints that media programming encourages obesity and violence, especially in children. The series started with a blog entry on media control. It continued with a piece about video game addiction and went on with a note about Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass) pressuring advertisers to adopt a healthier tone in [...]
Backfence was a well-funded, well-led attempt to create a network of local websites with a novel approach to delivering news — by the neighbors for the neighbors, rather than by professional journalists. Over the last two years Backfence used $3 million in venture capital to create a network of 13 local sites in affluent communities. [...]
The headline was too cute to resist.
A recent study by the polling firm Harris Interactive said a majority of adults in most Western nations think newspapers are important. They just don’t have time to read them.
Harris conducted an online survey of “8,749 adults within France (1,134); Germany (1,133); Great Britain (1,006); Italy (1,122); [...]
There is nothing free about free speech. Not gathering information; that takes time if nothing else. Nor is speaking free; even though the cost of sharing ideas is plunging the challenge of getting attention has only increased. Finally every utterance that isn’t ignored has consequences; speak truth to power and you’ll find that power may [...]
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