May 6, 2024
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You can see how public media is finally forging long-overdue connections: NPR, Frontline and PBS, and now the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is putting money into local online news. That's a potent combination brewing.
Read MoreIf Sweeney came concerned, he might have left more worried. Yes, Public Radio’s legacy business is radio, and, more recently, audio, via podcast and streaming. What Sweeney heard, though, was a larger Who, public radio’s nascent attempts to assert itself as a major online (and then presumably ...
Read MoreIt's hard to gauge the impact of New York Times and Wall Street Journal moves into metro markets. They could be simple, print retention strategies aimed, at holding on to valuable print readers — the magnets for still-lucrative print advertising — for as long as possible. ...
Read MoreTired of playing defense and readying itself for offense, the New York Times’ formal announcement of its San Francisco “edition” this week shows us how a world is moving and how the Times and Wall Street Journal (which also will offer an SF edition soon) is taking their battle to a city near you.
Read MoreImportant Details: San Francisco financier Warren Hellman has announced one of the most ambitious independent online news start-ups. He’s putting up seed money of $5 million with plans to hire “dozens of journalists” to cover the news in and around San Francisco. Hellman has ...
Read MoreFor daily newspapers, the growth of alternative journalisms is both a promise and a threat. It's a promise of getting high-quality, low-cost (California Watch charged even large metros just a few hundred dollars, though it is reviewing its business models going forward), without having to pay ...
Read MoreImportant Details: National Public Radio has re-launched its new national website, multiplying the amount of the its content and improving its immediacy. Importantly, it also re-imagined its national/local handoffs, connections that have been difficult for all legacy media companies to re-draw ...
Read MoreWhat is Christine Varney taking from her newspaper industry talks? Obama's new anti-trust chief has drawn a lot of attention for her interest in Google's books deal, and beyond that, to Google's great search dominance. Varney has also been meeting with news industry people, management and ...
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