May 4, 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.
Now they find themselves in a too-familiar fix. Not only have they allowed to Google to index and snippet their stories -- "fair use" has never been finally adjudicated in the course -- but they've grown dependent on Google traffic overall. Google traffic began as a gateway drug and now has ...
Read MoreA 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 newspaper world."
Read MoreConsider the new Big City American journalism and the emerging cast of characters owning it. It’s a page right out of the history books when a few well-heeled titans controlled the press, and its new incarnation could have all kinds of implications for the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, for ...
Read MoreCall 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 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 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 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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