03 March 2009
02 March 2009
"Mediapart.fr - Abonnement au nouveau journal interactif" - Maximiles
This is such a difficult sell....
"Pearson publie des résultats 2008 meilleurs que prévu"
Some good - or at least better - news again.
28 February 2009
"Broadcast Networks Battling Uphill for Profit and Audience" - NYTimes.com
Newspapers learned long ago that they can never afford to ignore what is happening in the television world.
27 February 2009
"Newspaper Convention Canceled Amid Industry Woes" - NYTimes.com
Another telling sign of where things are going....
"Rocky Mountain News Is Closing in Denver" - NYTimes.com
There are very few people or companies left who are prepared to buy existing newspapers. It is astounding to think that I am writing that sentence in 2009.
26 February 2009
"Google adds ads to Google News searches" - CNET News
One of the reasons why paying attention to Google is such a high priority.
"Hearst to use Helium citizen journalists" - Boston Business Journal
This strikes me as a smart move.
"German group Springer bucks media slump" - European Journalism Centre
I am not sure if there is anything to be drawn from this for application elsewhere.
25 February 2009
"Vidders Talk Back To Their Pop-Culture Muses" - NPR
Imagine how this might work if applied to newspapers and news stories instead of television programs.
"5 Newspapers in Northeast to Share Content" - NYTimes.com
The Associated Press, just like a paper's printing press, only makes sense if their is a minimum level of work. If the work drops below that minimum, neither the press nor the agency can continue.
"Murdoch on the prowl for print sales" - Variety
Whether it be he or not, it is most likely to be someone without a SULZBERGER name or some relation to it.
"Hearst to Slash, Sell or Close the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper" - WSJ.com
More perspective on this news.
"Washington Post Shares Decline After Profit Falls" - NYTimes.com
If the Washington Post did not have its other businesses, this would be a very dismal picture.
24 February 2009
"Metro International receives bid offer" - European Journalism Centre
There inevitably will be purchasers, at some price, for many remaining newspaper properties.
"Hearst May Sell or Close San Francisco Chronicle" - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com
Another sad chapter nears an end.
"Downie Says Newspapers Must Constantly Look For New Revenue Streams" - Neon Tommy
I think we are all dancing around economics and essentials. Either there is a business or there is not!
"Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)"
It's a sound argument for deaf ears.
"Americans watching more TV than ever" - Nielsen
And likely reading their newspapers less or - perhaps - less intently while the television plays.
"Currah: Kitemarks Have Great Potential to Help the News Business" - Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
A lot of this discussion is really on the fringes of what needs to happen.
"Financial Times to cut costs" - Reuters
Cutting back time worked, and compensation, seems like a fair way to address the economic challenges newspapers face.
"Hearst Taps Yahoo Vet Khemlani as VP, Digital Media"
The trendlines are slow to develop but inevitable.
23 February 2009
"Information Wants to Be Expensive" - WSJ.com
I agree with this thinking, but it is a huge change to make --- for newspapers to really focus on how they can become really valuable in the lives of their customers.
"ICFJ to offer online course on investigative journalism in Arabic" - IJNet
I have believed for a long time that a huge amount of continuing professional education could be carried out online. It is wonderful to see this course offered in Arabic and I hope many more will follow.
"New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply" - NYTimes.com
This has profound implicaitons for newspapers who ought to remain extremely attentive to what Google is trying to do. More important, tho, is the need for newspapers to look locally - where their greatest strength lies - and ask what they could be doing to bring more of the "knowledge" of and about their market to their customers who rely on them for that local insight and perspective. Show me one newspaper that is doing this today.
22 February 2009
"Rupert Murdoch’s Love of Newspapers Is Weighing on News Corp" - NYTimes.com
Newspaper love afflicts many of us.
"The Media Biz: Memo to Newspaper Publishers"
This is useful from a wise commentator, but not enough focused on the big picture; the changes recommended are not enough. A clearer strategy needs to precede them.
"Marc Andreesen advises newspapers to shut down the presses" - Reportr.net
The issue of how printing facilities fit into the future of newspapers is worth a lot of fresh analysis. It needs to be approached more from the standpoint of job printing than newspaper production, I think.
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31 January 2009
30 January 2009
"Is Community-Funded Journalism The Answer?" - NPR
I think getting people to pay more for news is a good idea but I am very uncomfortable with this approach; it threatens the independence and professionalism of journalism in my mind.
28 January 2009
"Free Newspaper Venture Depends on Local Blogs" - NYTimes.com
There is one of these in France, too. It might work, but needs to anticipate fully what people are going to value when printed on a piece of paper.
"Cox newspapers in NC cutting 28 jobs to save costs" - ABC 13
We are going to see a lot more of this.
"Washington Post to End Book World as Stand-Alone Section" - NYTimes.com
Whether this was a good move or not depends on whether the Post has reoriented its thinking about books and attempted to insert itself in the new electronic link that most book readers now enjoy. Is there, for example, a stand alone - but fully linked behind the scenes - website/page on books with the Post's name on it? In my view, everything then flows from that. The only page I could find is not very compelling or especially useful. It needs to redone starting with the customer - the reader and maybe buyer of books who can be convinced that the Post has something to offer in pursuing that interest. That includes advice and purchasing or borrowing books.....and it all has to be done in the name of the Post in order to stick and succeed.
13 December 2008
06 December 2008
"Worldwide, Employment on a Sharp Decline" - NYTimes.com
This is a very informative and chilling story about unemployment trends here and around the world in both the manufacturing and service sectors.Despite everything that has happened in web-based services, and specifically on the nytimes.com site, there is NOTHING here that in anyway helps a reader/customer who would like to see next month's (if that is when it comes) update of this chart. Why cannot the NYTimes offer either a link to the place where it will appear or at least promise to send me an e-mail if and when the Times chooses to publish an update on this story? Instead, the person reading this story in the paper and/or viewing it here comes up against a deadend. That, increasingly, seems to me to be incredibly short-sighted when it so relatively easily can be fixed with great value delivered to all in the process.
20 November 2008
19 November 2008
The New York Times
I am happy to see The New York Times earning revenue from companies like Apple.
What I am not happy about are the Mac ads that seem to appear with some frequency on the home page of the NYT. they are space-hoggers, resource hoggers, and a very big irritation to me as a customer.
Surely, there has to be a better way for Apple to reach people who are using the NYT site.
What I am not happy about are the Mac ads that seem to appear with some frequency on the home page of the NYT. they are space-hoggers, resource hoggers, and a very big irritation to me as a customer.
Surely, there has to be a better way for Apple to reach people who are using the NYT site.
17 September 2008
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06 September 2008
"Times Plans to Combine Sections of the Paper" - NYTimes.com
The incredible shrinking American newspaper.
04 September 2008
03 September 2008
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