April 29, 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.
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 MoreImportant Details: What may at first look like a day’s worth of alphabet soup may tell us more about the re-development of local news media. On November 13, two organizations meaningful to US local media, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Audit Bureau of Circulation ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Think real estate advertising has already changed a lot? Think again. Much of the real estate ad revolution is yet to come. Realty companies have seen the Web changing buying and selling relationships. In the early years of the Web, though, they were concerned about the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: In one statistic, you can feel the pain of the Tribune Company and the newspaper industry overall. Back in 2000, when times seemed optimistic, the Tribune swallowed Times Mirror, vaulting itself into becoming a national newspaper company. It paid $8 billion (including debt ...
Read MoreImportant Details: News sites have been slow to optimize their deep content for mobile, though the reach of mobile is impressive and growing at a great clip. Now the New York Times has joined the ranks of the optimized. Announced last week, the Times, partnered with Starcut, has now mobilized ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s been a long-simmering dispute between news publishers and search aggregators. What’s fair and what’s legal, as the search aggregators index headlines and story leads from open news Web sites? Ask the aggregators, and they’ll tell you ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The Tribune’s annual meeting, held on May 2, at first seemed unexceptional. CEO Dennis FitzSimons acknowledged that the company’s revenues and share price were troublesome, but said he was buoyed by the growth of the company’s Internet businesses ...
Read MoreWhat We’re Seeing: In mid-afternoon, the news broke in Silicon Valley. Mayor Ron Gonzales, long ago damaged by behind-closed-doors activities, was being indicted on bribery and related charges. I saw it on a Google alert as I went about my work. MercuryNews.com did a speedy job of ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Think of it as detente of sorts. And cast The Associated Press as the peacemaker. With two recent announcements, AP is showing its willingness to get Web users what they want – more easily – and benefit its owner-publishers. AP’s new Technorati ...
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