studying the media ecosystem
Coalition Shocked (Shocked!) by FCC’s Secret Timetable
Last week it was disclosed that Federal Communications Chairman Kevin Martin plans to hold a vote in December on whether to let Big Media get bigger by permitting newspaper owners to control television and radio stations in the same metropolitan area.
In 2006 the Federal Communications Commission began reviewing the rules that limit so called cross-ownership of print and [...]
This icon is from Chinese Law Professor Blog where we learn that Chinese officials will no longer harvest organs from prisoners, except under certain circumstances. (details)
Waiting in an office in San Francisco recently I was thumbing through a book, ”The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China,” when a passage caught my eye. I copied it down. I assume these are [...]
On the Internet, no one knows you’re a professional, nor cares enough to pay
Internet analyst Henry Blodgett wrote an op-ed piece that was courageously printed by the New York Times in August. In that article, Blodgett assumed that the Times converted entirely to digital distribution, losing most of the 90 percent of revenues it currrently earns from print. He reduced expenses to a lesser [...]
Writing coach Roy Peter Clark says: “Read the paper. Hold it in your hand. Take it to the john.”
As if the Internet weren’t already sucking the life (i.e. advertising) out of newspaper journalism, a time crunch is nailing shut the coffin. Who has time to read? My wife and I get ready for work in the morning. She listens to [...]
Today’s item is even more depressing than the dour forecast of newspaper advertising sales that I mentioned in Friday’s blog (look for the Outsell research comments).
Now Editor & Publisher reports that stock analyst Alexia Quadrani, who tracks newspapers for Bear Stearns, says:
“year-to-date through August, newspaper ad revenue is down 7 percent. Third quarter to date ad revenue declined 7.8 percent. [...]
Knight 21st Century News Challenge (info)
There’s nothing like a deadline to focus the mind and as I sit down this Saturday morning to put in my bid for a piece of this pie, let me pass on one last reminder from Knight Foundation communications director Marc Fest:
“The Knight News Challenge contest awards $5 million for innovative media ideas, however [...]
Are newsies outsourcing their ad sales to search engines?
Most journalists are oblivious to, perhaps even dismissive of advertising. To some extent this is an ethical necessisty in that news judgment should not be influenced by whether it will help or hurt advertisers or other commercial interests. That is the ideal. In the real world every journalist knows that there are industries, housing [...]
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