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Searching for promising news sites
Congratulations to the St. Louis Beacon for gaining mention in the Reynolds Journalism Institute‘s search for promising online news sites. The Beacon is getting better all the time and is playing an...
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Blogging declines among under-30 set
A new report on “Social Media and Young Adults” by Pew finds several interesting trends, the most pronounced of which is a decline in blogging. Wirelessly connecting in general, though, continues to...
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Deep cost-cutting, online revenue, help Times Co. stay in black
But for how long? The owner of The New York Times reported modest profits from the fourth quarter. But its stock fell 9 percent Wednesday with the announcement. The profits were based mostly on severe...
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What We’re Willing to Pay for Online
Forgive the USA-Today-style headline, but a new report from Nielsen on attitudes toward paid Internet content may offer some hope for a revenue stream for online news providers. Nielsen surveyed 27,000...
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Jay Rosen: The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political...
Jay Rosen of NYU poses an excellent question about the state of journalism, based on David Barstow’s reporting in The NYT last week about the Tea Party Movement: Is it enough to report the expressed...
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Is it 1984 already?
This is just horrifying beyond words. A suburban school district near Philadelphia issues students computers equipped with webcams. The students’ MacBook laptops were outfitted with management software...
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Former CEO of Village Voice: A World without Newspapers
Feeling curmudgeonly today. I agree with every point David Schneiderman makes here, but I don’t like it one bit. His conclusions prove that revolutions do not equal progress, and technological advances...
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New Pew study looks at ‘participatory news consumer’
A study released today by Pew Internet examines “how internet and cell phone users have turned news into a social experience.” Interestingly, while another report from Pew three months ago found that...
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Report: Advertisers to spend more on digital media than print
Forbes.com reports landmark findings from the annual Outsell advertising and marketing study today: Of the $368 billion marketers plan to spend this year, 32.5% will go toward digital; 30.3% to print....
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Anatomy of a cable news story
More brilliance from The Onion. Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere
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