April 18, 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.
It's a tough dance, and one that conservatives love to watch. I'm struck by how different the dance is in the UK, another English-speaking country with a fairly decent history of democracy and free press. There, the Guardian -- which is now ...
Isn't Apple wanting 30% of fees for apps a little like [Sony CEO] "Howard Stringer demanding 30% of the revenue produced by TV shows running on Sony TV sets"? That's how a friend put it to me when we talked today. It's a confusing world, no ...
We can't though dismiss what the Mormon Church, Rupert Murdoch and ad moguls are up to. We have to learn from it and help it power a journalism that matters.
As the much-ballyhooed "fight for livingroom" plays out, can national news companies like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and NPR, or local news companies, get a piece of the pie, whoever (Apple, Google, Comcast, Time Warner, Dish) ...
The UK moves have many parallels in the US, but the concentration of them in so short a time portends new waves of news industry transformation, and maybe some regression, across the Western World.
The Reuters Insider product is impressive, a model of what can be done by companies recognizing changing digital habits, and the technologies that support them. What’s most impressive about the product is its aggregation, the sheer amount of ...
Here’s another number that’s important, in this big scheme of things, in the where-the-world is going vs. where it’s been reckoning: Of digital advertising — not only soon to be #1, but also the fastest-growing kind of advertising — newspaper ...
Brisbane has learned from personal experience that prior standing is no promise of survival. Knight Ridder [for whom I worked for 21 years] reigned as the #2 journalism company in revenue size in the U.S. for years, and distinguished itself ...
News Corp.'s Avatar has taken in $2.75 billion. Compare that financial flexibility with the Times, and it’s night and day. The Times Co.’s total 2009 revenues: $2.4 billion, less than Avatar itself has produced.
Bewkes is on to something all savvy media execs should get. The customer wants the technology -- and the platform of delivery -- to be transparent. We want what we want, and we don't want to be nickel-and-dimed along the way. Single pricing, ...
