The Newsonomics of Replacing Larry King
Can CNN find a digital upgrade to the analog King?
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The Number
Salon's claiming to be the fastest-growing news site on the web, in stats released today. The numbers: 35% more users during March 2010 compared to March 2009. Key reasons for growth: savvier management under new CEO Richard Gingras, better search engine optimization and the frequent ...
Read MoreThe Problem with CNN: Conventional News Network
CNN’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 MoreHow Well Does Fox News Mix with Reality?
One question not posed lingered with me though: Since Fox is both a news channel with pretensions of journalistic authority and credibility and an anything-goes entertainment provider, we see how it is just getting harder and harder to separate out real journalism from everything else.
Read MoreFinally, the Times Moves to Re-Brand the IHT (In Part)
The Times’ move to bring the International Herald Tribune website into the brand fold certainly makes sense. The change will add about 7 million uniques to NYTimes.com’s 58 million, a nice 12% boost. One question is why it took so long – the Times arm-wrestled the Washington Post out of ...
Read MoreWhen News Turns Comedic, Comedy Turns Into News
You’ve had the sensation. You DVR up last night’s The Daily Show or Colbert Report, expecting some laughs and relaxation, and you get them. But you get more: You get news reporting, stealthy news reporting that pretends to be comedy, but is actual news. Last week, I loved Jon ...
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