April 24, 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.
One big lesson here for everyone to get their heads around. This is commercial crowdsourcing. Why outsource the collection, organization and checking of “directory data,” as numerous Yellow Pages companies have done over time, when you can have the crowd do it — for free. It’s using the web, as ...
Read MoreBy my calculation, readers (print and/or online) of news from U.S. newspaper companies will see about three quarters of a million stories fewer in 2009 than they did in say, 2006, before this big round of cuts began. I get to the number starting with ASNE's census number of 8300 newsroom jobs ...
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