In case you’ve had the good fortune to spend the Great Recession on a desert island, here’s a snippet from the Columbia Journalism Review that summarizes the media landscape to which you have returned:
American journalism is at a transformational...
In a supposed debate between the old and the new, at least the following was concluded:
Both sides agreed that good journalism, foreign reporting and freedom of the press should be preserved, but none could provide a way to fund the future of the...
In paidcontent, Andrew Clark presents a trenchant view of Murdoch and his minions’ attack on Marissa Mayer and GOOG’s “promiscuity.” Pretty ironic, as Jack Shafer points out:
“If the WSJ didn’t want any of its stories in any way visible on...
I was pleased to read Robert Heath’s comment on my recent blurt wrt to the un- and re-bundling of newspaper content. In it, he directed me to a post of his in July. Quoth Mr. Heath, citing the Oracle of Omaha, circa 1977:
The economics of a...
As well constructed a paragraph on the electronics of content as you’ll ever see:
Why is it so hard for content makers to create value on the web? Because the web has evolved to minimize content makers’ ability to retain users. Thanks to the power...
