It’s been a very interesting past few weeks with a bunch of stories relating to the death of older news and journalism models (daily newspapers) and the emerging models that hope to replace the dailies. Below are a few of the stories that have caught my attention…
• On the old model front, Gannett has cut [...]
Here is the last day (finally) of cleaning out my backlog of stories relating to the dailies, traditional media, new media, advertising, etc. Some of these headlines are slightly outdated, but so be it.
• Village Voice Media is stepping in to capitalize on the opportunity completely missed by the dailies in creating a local advertising [...]
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 [...]
One of the most fascinating aspects of the tectonic transformation taking place in the media landscape are the collisions that occur between new and old media. Those collisions also provide some of the most humorous and entertaining stories in the media world given how frequently traditional media companies (and even new media companies in many [...]
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 [...]