The tectonic shifts transforming the media and advertising landscape have always been fascintaing to me a stand as one of the central areas of focus of this blog. And while the earthquakes and volcanos along the fault lines are worthy of the headlines they grab, I am equally intrigued by the smaller events and more [...]
In December of 2007, I made some predictions for 2008, one of which centered around a major metro market in the U.S. losing its daily newspaper altogether. While the timing may have been a little early, there is little doubt that it will come true in 2009. The only question that remains is which city [...]
From a great editorial by Frank Rich in Sunday’s New York Times entitled Obama Outwits the Bloviators…
YouTube, the medium that has transformed our culture and politics, didn’t exist four years ago. Four years from now, it’s entirely possible that some, even many, of the newspapers and magazines covering this campaign won’t exist in their current [...]
In yesterday’s New York Times, David Carr wrote an excellent piece entitled All of Us, Arbiters of News, in which he perfectly articulates the dramatic way in which the web is fundamentally transforming news and journalism. The story of the web obliterating the old, traditional economic model behind news has been often-told, but what is [...]
As if dancing around onstage like a drunken buffoon wasn’t enough, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer followed it up by declaring that all media will be delivered over an IP network within 10 years. Though there are a ton of enormous ramifications to that prediction (ever read a book, Steve?), one of them is that there [...]
Portfolio remains the best business magazine on the market today, and stands as the best new magazine I’ve read in some time. In an article this month entitled ‘Paper Tigers,’ Roger Lowenstein details the efforts of Charles Madigan to compile previously published articles relating to the decline of daily newspapers. It’s a solid article and [...]