The wonderful, wild, wide-open nature of social media leaves the door wide open for discourse of any kind – rude, nasty, sharing, loving, informative, political, connective, entertaining, persuasive…story-telling of any kind. All of it has an audience, large, small, gigantic. Newspapers, how are you gathering that audience, the news that can be filtered from the […]
Appropriately, I drove through rain, snow, sleet, horizontal wind-whipped rain, mountain-top mist and a bit of sun from Pittsburgh to State College, Pa. and my destination, AccuWeather. Appropriately, AccuWeather is located on Science Park Road, not far from downtown and Penn State. “Look for the building with all the satellite dishes,” my AccuWeather colleague suggested. […]
In the Dark Ages – about two years ago – newspaper companies with a healthy stable of smaller to medium size properties felt like they had the ultimate insurance policy. Perceived remoteness. “It’ll be years before Google, Yahoo and the rest discover us,” was the line of thought, as they watched the metros they owned […]
Everyone knows that media sites – particularly newspapers – are struggling mightily to find the right Internet business model, one that will sustain them as print continues to decline and digital becomes more important and no longer viewed as an interesting appendage, as it has been by too many in the recent past. Anyone who […]
Digital, Newspapers, Radio, TelevisionThe media industry seeks a path to survival, even as the layoffs continue. The cost-cutting is far from over. There’s talk of a modest rebound for newspapers in 2010, but how do you define rebound? So how do the educational institutions that provide the talent and energy to help save the business succeed in this […]
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For 19 years, he anchored the CBS Evening News, giving us the daily signature: “And that’s the way it is…” But he gave us so much more. Certainly the premier journalist of his time, he not only recorded and reported the world-changing news of the day – the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing – but […]
Content, Newspapers, Television, University of TexasWhat’s your school of thought when it comes to publishing systems – newspapers, radio, TV, whatever – and speed to market? Make it perfect, dot every i, cross every t…spend a couple years. Or get a good one in quickly and grow it, as needs grow? Okay, you’re thinking this is not exciting, and why […]
Content, Digital, Innovation, Newspapers, Radio, Television…. will today’s dirge on “the death of newspapers as we know them” be replaced by “the death of radio as we know it,” and “the death of TV as we know it”? Probably not so directly said – because TV and radio won’t provide as much “ink” to their financial woes as newspapers have […]
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