May 14, 2024
In five languages (English, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian) and two U.S. printing, “Newsonomics: Twelve Trends That Will Shape the News You Get” is the first Ken Doctor book. Sign up here for notice of the new Newsonomics Readers.
The news is out: Newspaper companies can no longer afford reporters and editors. Today’s L.A. Times announcement is the latest to catch a news cycle of public attention. As well it should. A 17% cut — 150 newsroom jobs — is an ...
As Yahoo burns, the newspaper industry watches, hoping it won’t get singed. The Google/Yahoo search ad agreement has drawn lots of comments over the past couple of weeks, but its impact on newspaper consortium members has gotten little ...
There are two kinds of newspaper stories these days. One kind is the old-fashioned one that tell us something we don’t know. The others — now feeding on themselves in near-frenzy — tell us about the unabated decline of the ...
I’d like to read the Los Angeles Times manual on "how to deal with difficult situations." Though it’s never been made public, it’s clear it’s been infiltrated by those disseminating disinformation. The result: ...
So, it’s clear, that Randy Michaels knows how to draw attention. His 50/50 ad/news plan isn’t exactly revolutionary, but it’s become a lightning rod for the news industry, as it comes to grip with near-death experience. Two ...
Sam, I get it. You’re being aggressive. When you add to Randy Michaels’ aggressive talk about cutting newspaper size and staff that “I promise you he is underestimating the level of aggressiveness with which we are attacking ...
You’ve had the sensation. You DVR up last night’s The Daily Show or Colbert Report, expecting some laughs and relaxation, and you get them. But you get more: You get news reporting, stealthy news reporting that pretends to be comedy, ...
An acid test of newspapering is how a paper reports on itself. We’re taught to be cautious, even leaning over backwards, to make sure that stories involving the paper, or its parent companies, are done according to basic journalistic ...
Summertime and the livin’ is far from easy. Now that we’re past Memorial Day, let’s speculate on the summer that will be. It’s a long time til Labor Day for the news industry. We’ve seen Rupert Murdoch, ironically ...
I’ve long compared the cable and phone companies on the one hand to the newspaper companies on the other. Newspaper companies saw there business being upended by the Internet, made small bets and have lost out on the big ad growth the web ...
