It’s time for magazines to reassert their place in today’s crowded media marketplace. At least that’s what some industry trade associations feel about it. The Magazine Publishers of America has hired a boutique ad agency to create a campaign designed to promote the power of […]
I read about this interesting idea the other day in the New York Times. It suggests that in the future perhaps only that reporting which people will directly pay for will be done. Does this mean that journalism goes out only to the highest bidder? […]
Chris Anderson, author of the wonderful book, The Long Tail, speaks with British journalism conference attendees about how technology and market forces are fundamentally reshaping journalism as we know it. In the future, will we have the same funding for reporting that a democracy demands? […]
I recently came across this thought-provoking essay about the nature of newpaper journalism today. It’s written by David Simon, a wonderful reporter at the Baltimore Sun and author (It was his literary nonfiction “Homicide” that led to the development of the television show in the […]
Since 1990, more than one quarter of all American newspaper jobs have disappeared. Such is the data included in Eric Alterman’s report in the New Yorker: Out of Print, The life and death of the American Newspaper. “It no longer requires a dystopic imagination to […]
Time magazine is asking for you to cast your vote. What are the best, and the worst, covers they have ever produced? It’s fun looking back over the years at all of the different subjects that have graced the cover (One about Minnesota governor Wendell […]
It’s an honor for me to be invited as a keynote speaker at this year’s Annual Associated Collegiate Press Best of the Midwest College Newspaper Convention, to be held February 17 at the Minneapolis Hilton. I’ve been asked to share my ideas about what leaders […]
“On Madison Avenue, talk has turned to whether the business model that has financed the news for more than a century — product advertising — still fits the way people consume media.” Such is the statement made in the introduction to the recently released report […]
A catchy analysis of today’s news: “In its various current forms, the news—as a habituating, slightly fetishistic, more or less entertaining experience that defines a broad common interest—is ending. Newspapers, the network evening news, newsmagazines, even 24-hour cable news channels, these providers and packagers of […]
Andrew Brown from the Guardian has an interesting take on the act of reading. Video and audio “take more time to convey less meaning,” he writes. “There are some things which print cannot easily – or at all – convey, and which sound and pictures […]