studying the media ecosystem
Lotsa cash but in fewer hands
The Conference Board offers the good news-bad news view of the year-end spending season opens today (my host left the house at zero-dark-thirty to wait in line for the second to last of 26 half-priced flat panel TVs). Here is the gist of the Conference Board report:
“About 73 million US households now [...]
Freelancer James Palmer covers the Iraqi journalists who defied al Qaeda
With humility I pass on this lovely yarn that appeared in my own paper, the story of the 55 Iraqi journalists of Radio Dilja, an indepedent station formerly of Baghdad, who fought off al Qaeda attackers and then, after the thugs returned and burned their station to the ground, trekked 225 [...]
AP chief Tom Curley says quality will rule . . . after ‘brutal’ competition thins the herd.
Competition will be brutal. New will statify into 150 word briefs and brief but brainy analyses. And quality will rule. That sums up the nuggets I found in a speech that Associated Press chief executive Tom Curley made in November to a group of students [...]
On newspapers as imagined today
In a leap of imagination Howard Finberg, interactive news director of the Poynter Institute, recently predicted the attributes of the succesful newpaper of the futurs. Here are excerpts from, “A Look Back from 2018” in which he writes:
” . . . most of the companies that print a daily newspaper, and there are (now, as in [...]
Is “bigot” defamatory enough to pierce anonymity?
Thanks to Deep Cuz , who spotted a legal fracas that revolves around “bigot” being used as an anonymous comment to a blog posting – and the ruling by a New York State judge that the word isn’t defamatory enough to warrant the forced disclosure of the poster’s identity.
Cuz directed me to Mike Masnick’s recent posting on Tech Dirt that, in turn, cites an analysis of the [...]
The economy has continued to generate GDP growth despite rising oil prices and the mortagage meltdown but the latest advertising estimates suggests a slight slowdown in the stunning growth of online advertising. MediaPost editor Joe Mandese writes that Internet ad growth:
“continues to outpace that of every other major medium, expanding at 25.3% - or by $1.1 billion - during [...]
Hearst, MediaNews tango; but who leads?
Paid Content reporter David Kaplan spotted this latest collaboration between my Hearst Corp. (which own the San Francisco Chronicle where I am a Silicon Valley reporter) and MediaNews, the chain that controls most of the surrounding papers, including the Contra Costa Times, Oakland Tribune, Hayward Daily Review and San Jose Mercury News.
As Kaplan blogs today:
“Buried in newspaper conglom MediaNews‘s 10-Q filed earlier [...]
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