Archive for the ‘Newspapers’ Category

Do some Newsbrands want to charge for the right to lie to you?

Monday, August 17th, 2009Is Journalism Online like Spotify? Which I posted about in networked economics comes to the music industryThe Journalism Online e-commerce system will offer a single account for users to access all the publishers' websites and a range of payment options ...

Traditional media must “engage” or die

Thursday, August 13th, 2009Half the country's 1,300 local newspapers will close between now and 2013, destroying 20,000 media jobs. There will be a decline of original content across the board that will have enormous consequences for democracy.Its not that journalism, news and newspapers ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

Do not mourn the death of local newspapers

Monday, April 27th, 2009The crisis in local news is not just about "the business model", a phrase I am coming to loathe. It is about the fabric of a society and the careers that grew out of local journalism and have made so ...

Newsbrands of the 21st Century [1]

Sunday, April 5th, 2009Dave Cushman posts The Guardian's Open Platform project has caused a bit of a stir, at a time when mass media of all kinds is struggling to work out business models that have a better fit with the networked world.The clever ...

Creating economic value in; content, social communication and Mobility

Friday, March 27th, 2009Was the guts of Gerd Leonhards presentation at the Nokia Siemens Transformation conference in Cologne this week.Fascinating stuff, and I was very glad that we got to shake hands and have a good chat too.Gerds argument is that the global ...

Downfall

Friday, March 13th, 2009ITV, C4 and 5, the UK's major commercial terrestrial broadcasters are in merger talks and the New York Times front page told us that, over America local newspapers are closing down or shutting down their print operationsThe history of The ...

citizen journalism: truth, trust and power

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Jeff Bercovici writes, Hearst Newspapers, The New York Times Co. and the Washington Times have all announced plans to harvest the reporting of non-professional volunteers.But why uncomfortable bedfellows? BecauseThere's a healthy dose of irony here, especially when it comes to ...

The fall of Tom Daschle and the rise of public man

Saturday, February 7th, 2009I picked up Jay Rosen's link to a TV interview with BIll Moyers, which focused on the recent mini-crisis of Tom Daschle's nomination to be head of Health and Human services.And I picked up the FT this morning to find ...

The Johnston Press – it did not have to be this way

Monday, December 15th, 2008The lack of an effective digital strategy, few apparent plans aside from further cost cuts, and concerns over refinancing debt are the main reasons cited for the share price collapse.Writes the Sunday HeraldAnd of course the banking collapse and its ...

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