April 25, 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.
What will The Daily do with Cairo's Time? Egypt is the story of the week. With The Daily planning on being a daily, not an instant, news product, its thinking and philosophy will be tested Day One. If it has yesterday's Egypt news, as the revolution goes down, it will read like yesterday's. ...
Read MoreThinking about the recent terminations at the Washington Post and CNN, though, I wonder if the press priesthood is still another cultural institution in the process of being swept away, encumbered as much as it has by habit as by principle.
Read MoreThat’s left me wondering exactly what value is in good editing. Are there any Newsonomics of editing, value to be gained and harvested?
Read MoreIn an age of hot and loud debate, amplified by cable TV and the web, Newsweek's cool demeanor may simply be out of time and out of place. If it gets sold, it's hard to believe that much other than the brand will long survive, as the economics under it are badly wounded. Look for it, ...
Read MoreCNN’s ratings slides is beginning to look like daily newspaper’s long circ slide. The hot cable media — Fox, especially, and less so, MSNBC as well as CNN’s own HLN, with its screaming, tabloidy, violence-centered coverage — all are beating it, and ever more ...
Read More"If you are looking for deep political wisdom from Wolf Blitzer, that's like fishing for manta rays in the Gowanus Canal." Dan Gross talking about health care bill-related punditry and "the culture of stenography" on On the Media. Well worth a listen overall.
Read MoreSo, as the Times reorganizes its digital business operations, add something new to the Times woes' of downsized ad spend, too great a cost structure and little way to gain other than ad revenues digitally until at least 2011 given its go-slow approach to metering. Add the forest people, the ...
Read MoreSo the newspaper industry is taking a page from indie film ("A Day Without a Mexican"), dailies are hiring execs from the alternative press, and we're seeing new, almost-daily, mating rituals between older and newer news media. What's going on? Nine questions to start: How ...
Read MoreThe biggest moving piece here though is habit. It's elusive. Newspapers' great success and great profits grew out of their dailiness, as addictive as cigarettes, without the nicotine. Readers got used to picking one up daily and advertisers got used to using their dailiness to market. As the ...
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."
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