April 24, 2024
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It's coming in the largest stimulus package in US history. $100 billion, are you kidding? $300 billion? How about $500 or $700 billion? That stimulus, combined with other economic recovery programs, gives newspaper companies a new shot at ...
A veteran journalist close to CNN, she has put the wire initiative in perspective: "CNN is positioned really well. They want to do good journalism....They're positioned globally. They have the TV world wrapped up and are now getting into the ...
Publishers can flip that switch, or, as many are contemplating, ease it increasingly from one position to another. It's no longer a theoretical question: by 2015, I believe we'll be living in a mainly digital/a little print world. There are six ...
One big reason the numbers are declining is the product itself. In the last year, we've seen unprecedented cuts in the product -- and the customers are noticing. It looks like the amount of newsprint is down about 10-15%; some in stories, some ...
What's important is getting quickly beyond that first edition we've all been trained to concentrate on and onto the infinite editions that we and our audiences can now create using the journalism already created. More knowledge, more products ...
Let's compare that to what to what CBS earns on air. We can estimate that Katie Couric's third-rated newscast charges aboout $40,000 for each of its 16 or so 30-second ads, or about $640,000 in total for each night’s show. (On average, ...
Okay, you've lived in this fair country of ours for the last couple of years. You're sufficiently interested in the affairs of the country that you are willing to venture into the halls of Nashville's Belmont University to ...
Good Morning Silicon Valley’s John Murrell makes a simple, but vital, point in connecting the dots in the latest Steve Jobs health scare speculation. He describes how a CNN iReport got it wrong, and how the report sent the stock diving, ...
You gotta like media analysis that starts with The Simpsons. This week, Matthew Schwartz, senior editor of ScribeMedia interviewed me, on the trials and tribulations of the news industry. His intro: "In an episode of The Simpsons (that ...
As I train down to D.C. for the Online News Association conference (moderating a panel hopefully titled, Optimize and Monetize, tomorrow; if you’re there, say hello), the dizzying news industry news of the last week raises more questions ...
