studying the media ecosystem
The Scripps Center evicts its flagship paper
Midnight on December 31, a story that is more than a century old will end when E.W. Scripps closes the Cincinnati Post, the newspaper currently housed in it headquarters pictured above. If you want poignancy, read the sweet obit that Joe Strupp wrote for Editor & Publisher, but I find that moist eyes contribute [...]
Stocks down 46 percent in 5 years while profits flat. Buy sign?
Don’t try to catch a falling knife! I’ve heard that from investors leery of buying stocks, much less industries, in decline. And there is a buggy whip aroma around newspaper and other mass media stocks these days, what with the Internet gobbling up advertising and the mortgage crisis pushing the economy [...]
In 1960 the English author and physicist C.P. Snow delivered three lectures titled, “Science and Government,” about the rivalry that hobbled British science during World War II. The hero is Sir Henry Tizard, who led the effort to develop radar and brought Americans into the effort. The villian is F.A. Lindemann, personal friend and scientific advisor to Prime Minister Winston Churchill – aka the Prof and the P.M. [...]
Global ad spend recap, forecast reflect U.S. mortgage doldrums
ZenithOptima, a division of the global advertising firm Publicis Group, has released a free summary of a global advertising report that reveals many of the same trends apparent in the United States — the rapid loss of ad sales by newspapers and radio; a mild uptick in television and outdoor [...]
Verizon EV-DO lets me blog damn near anywhere
I am blogging for the first time using my new Verizion EV-DO service, a 800 kps to 1.4 megabit per second service delivered through a cellular modem (provided). So for the same $59.99 per month that I now pay for Comcast I will get comparable speeds, anywhere in Verizon cell country. [...]
Can high-volume ink jets compete with the rotary press for short runs?
The rotary press is one of the familiar icons of newspapering because it is the formative technology upon which the mass market daily has been built. Invented in the mid-19th century, it offered the ability to produce large runs at low cost, enabling newspaper pioneers like Joseph Pulitzer [...]
Nokia must be doing something right. The cell phone maker is a leader at the cutting edge of electronics, the distribution and servicing of handheld electronic devices. So when it publishes a study, “A Glimpse of the Next Episode,” it seems wise to assume that the report is somewhat self-serving and that the company has released that which it wants us [...]
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