April 26, 2024
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Call it physics. Call it Zen. Call it journalism. As I cover the waning fortunes of legacy media and rising fortunes of start-up journalism sites, I can’t help but think of equilibrium. Maybe it’s being back on the Left Coast too long, but somehow the scales seem to be balancing. ...
Read MoreImportant Details: EveryBlock has launched. Long anticipated in the online news world, 27-year-old Adrian Holovaty’s latest brainchild offers readers micro-local views of three cities (Chicago, New York and San Francisco) with more planned. Holovaty is a classic tweener: part journalist, ...
Read MoreWe can add still another franchise – business news – to those being abandoned by the daily press. I’ve seen slimming of business pages, some announced grandly, some never acknowledged but painfully obvious to newspaper readers. Once-robust sections of eight pages have trickled to six or four, ...
Read MoreConsider it user-gen 2.1. It’s easy to see Helium, whose Marketplace product comes out of within the next week or two, as a website organizing the loose and large gaggle of freelance writers out there. It’s attempting to do that, and that in and of itself is interesting. Even more ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Freelancing’s business practices go back to the days of Charles Dickens. Writers toil away in merry obscurity. They finish pieces and then cast them off to would-be publishers, hoping for a bite. Sure, they can e-mail them these days, when than posting them, but the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: This week, Philly.com relaunched its business offerings, with strongly emphasising local information, video and blogging. Philly.com, owned by Philadelphia Media Holdings, is the online home of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News and, like many newspapers, ...
Read MoreYou can feel the walls closing in at the new, light-filled Times building off Times Square. Consider: —America’s (the world’s?) largest newsroom is getting a major haircut. Of the current 1300 jobs, 100 will be gone soon, victim of the increasingly familiar buyout/layoff ...
Read MoreImportant Details: There’s no shortage of online ad networks out there, and the number’s recently grown by two. In the US, Gannett and Tribune, two of the three largest news publishers, announced a new network, quadrantONE, which is jointly owned by the two as well as by Hearst ...
Read MoreQuadrantONE moseyed out of the gate last week, after a few false starts. It got good ink because it offered good numbers: a potential of 50 million unique visitors waiting to be served in 27 of the top 30 markets. The new network will leverage sites owned by its four co-owners, Gannett, ...
Read MoreTime for newspapers to get out of the Industrial Age and into the Digital? Alan Mutter makes a great point of wretched editing excess and he’s apparently hit a good nerve in the industry, in his post, “Can Newspapers Afford Editors.” (Maybe excessive editing, no, but good ...
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