studying the media ecosystem
Paid Content’s David Kaplan says specialized bloggers and aggregators are creating syndication deals with content-starved portals like MSN, AOL and Yahoo (but not Google?). It’s an interesting piece. Here’s a snip:
“Not too long ago, small time content sites would have been happy for just brief attention from major portals. But now, the drive to deliver [...]
Peddling news along with vegetables
A Reuters article from China suggests that bloggers and citizen journalists continue to use the Internet to share stories, pictures and complaints about oppressive conditions. The article includes this quote from Vincent Brossard, Asia desk chief of Reporters Without Borders:
“People are going through the Internet because they cannot get what they want through conventional media.” [...]
I am a member of the Newspaper Guild which is trying to organize the Contra Costa Times and the other Northern California papers owned by Dean Singleton’s MediaNews. What follows are two sets of extracts, the first a downbeat analysis of the company’s finances from the Guild Newspaper and the second being a memo that leaked from Singleton [...]
Paid Content reporter David Kaplan has summarized the main points of an eMarketer forecast today:
“Despite some economic weakness, and diminished display ad spending from the mortgage industry, online ad spend will be up 26.8 percent over last year—$21.4 billion—accounting for 7.4 percent of the total ad spend . . . Demonstrating the likelihood of online’s [...]
My whistleblower pal says there’s no justice working for Uncle Sam
I have written about whistleblowers in this blog and have used them as sources for stories but I have never felt their plight. Until perhaps now. A few days ago I wrote about learning that Charlotte Yee, a former source from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, had started a [...]
What would such a toolkit contain?
My friend and occasional collaborator, Tim Bishop, spotted a reference to a forthcoming journalism toolkit that sounds, at least, like a project that he and I had proposed about a year ago in the first Knight 21st Century News Challenge. We didn’t get the grant, however, and left the idea undone.
So [...]
Editor & Publisher reports that circulation dropped an average of 2.5 percent in weekday circulation and 3.5 percent for Sunday, according to an audit of several hundred newspapers conducted by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
The audit compared circulation as of September 30, 2007 to the comparable period last year. E&P took a kindly view of results at the San [...]
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