studying the media ecosystem
If you’re in the news business online guru Kevin Kelly has news for you. Forget how you used to make your living delivering scoops. Make yourself valuable in new and more personal ways or else perish he suggests in Better than Free.
With that in mind Paid Content reports that the Financial Times has created a $3,300-a-year Executives Forum ”where members can “maintain contact with peers and [...]
Editor & Publisher columnist Mark Fitzgerald writes that:
“Bay Area mainstream media are studiously ignoring the courtroom action in the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s “predatory pricing” lawsuit against Village Voice Media (VVM) . . . the Bay Guardian is suing SF Weekly and VVM under a California law adopted in a more populist era that makes [...]
“We read newspapers, watch news on television and listen to news on the radio, but how is it decided what is news? How is it decided what are the important events of the day? What makes news?”
That question animates the syllabus for a media literacy training class developed by Maria Byck and published by KQED, the San Francisco public broadcast station. It was [...]
More than 140 million Americans watched 10 billion online videos in December says a report from comscore Video Metrix. That’s about 72 videos per viewer. Video Metrix said the average video was 2.8 minutes. Over the course of a month the average viewer spent three hours and twenty minutes enjoying this new habit that didn’t exist even three years ago.
Google sites [...]
We haven’t heard much of late about the so-called federal shield law. Maybe that’s because reporters have finally read the bill and realized that its main beneficiary would be Steve Jobs of Apple.
In December 2004, Apple sued two web sites that had published details of some hush-hush Apple products. The information was a trade secret, like the formula for Coke, said Apple, which also wanted to know who had leaked [...]
News media are losing jobs; but Ad Age says marketing broke an employment record in November
If you’re in the news business maybe you ought to slide over into marketing.
An analysis of federal jobs statistics by Advertising Age magazine says media jobs — newspapers, broadcast and cable TV, radio, magazines and internet media companies –”fell to a 15-year [...]
Chez Pazienza
The New York Times reports that CNN fired senior producer Chez Pazienza after he was told that he had violated a company policy by failing to get permission to do outside writing. Pazienza maintains a personal blog, DeusExMalcontent, and has apparently also contributed to the Huffington Post. CNN told the Times: ““CNN has a policy that says [...]
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