An editorial entitled Meltdown to the Core in the current issue of Editor & Publisher magazines, the trade journal of the newspaper industry, laments how that declining industry’s cost-cutting guts attempts to serve growing niches of readership and is focuses instead on…
Why ‘Verified’ Circulation Is Now Separate From ‘Paid’ Circulation.
Readers’ responses to WSJ.com column indicate that the best downloadable music price is under a dollar.
Faith in technology requires patience
Traditional publishers and broadcasters aren’t the only faction whose perspective creates an illusion. Today at Corante’s Symposium on Social Architecture, I’ve heard speakers state as fact that ‘newspaper publishers think they own their readers.‘. I’ve been working in the newspaper industry since…
‘Our audience is fragmenting!’ I hear that again and again from traditional publishers and broadcasters. They lament their ‘fragmenting’ readership, listenership, or viewership. But it’s untrue, merely a figment of their traditional perspective. Viewership, readership, and listenership, have always been fragmented. Each…
You can manage decline only so far before your company crumbles. Case in point: Knight-Ridder, Inc, the second largest newspaper chain in the U.S. Is Knight Ridder crumbling? Look how the crumbs are starting to fall. The crumb was today’s announcement by…
In his keynote address Friday at the Online News Association’s annual conference in New York City, New York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
The significant thing about Journalism 2010: Who’s leading the way?, the ‘superpanel’ at the close of the Online News Association’s annual conference was that none of the experts who were invited to speak about the future work for traditional media companies. All…
“Do you have an online business model to subsidize your 1,200-person newsroom?” — a question from the audience. “Yes, we’re going to kidnap users’ pets and hold them hostage.” — Keynote speaker New York Times Chairman & Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.‘s tongue-in-cheek…
What obstacles exist for online journalism? That topic will be on the minds of attendees at the Online News Association‘s annual conference next week in Manhattan. Unfortunately, the major obstacle for online journalism is the people who practice it — the best…
Take the following with a grain of salt. According to Nielsen/Netratings, it’s the lists [pdf] of the 10 content categories with the strongest female and male broadband audiences in the United Kingdom during August: Among Males (694,164 surveyed) 1. Automotive Parts &…
Leo Bogart, a Polish-born, former U.S. Army Intelligence officer in World War II, who later applied his talents for analysis to the media in general, and tried to reverse the decline of American media, died Saturday in Manhattan. During the 1960s, Dr.…
Congratulations to Adrian Holovaty, Matt Thompson, and Inform Technologies. Boos to U.S. newspaper corporations for claiming that newsprint price increases are forcing them to cut staff (an excuse that Slate’s Jack Shafer roundly debunks) and boos to FIFA for banning immediate online publication or broadcast of digital images of the next World Cup.
Ebb Tide, Greenwich, Connecticut (click to enlarge) – © Vin Crosbie What makes September and October major months for travel? Projects conceived during summer vacations are launched then. My travels for clients always spikes during those months. Nevertheless, I’m now home for…
That’s the subject of Mark Glaser‘s report yesterday in Online Journalism Review. Read reactions to Yahoo! New’s decision to offer original reporting. Here’s my own from Glaser’s story: Media consultant Vin Crosbie, president of Digital Deliverance, said it’s true that Yahoo doesn’t…
Editor & Publisher magazines interviews Adrian Holovaty, the editor of editorial innovations at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, who last month won the $10,000 grand prize in the University of Maryland’s Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Also, Interactive Narratives has a podcast interview with…
As a little boy during the World’s Fair of 1963-4 in New York City, I first saw a prototype of what the telephone was supposed to be by the year 2000. It was supposed to be a videophone. For example, the photo…
I frequently write about newspapers’ experience with the new medium because theirs has been the longest experience. The New York Times launched the world’s first online edition in 1974 with LexisNexis, followed by many magazines and other newspapers on that professional online…
The ironically named ‘BEHOLD THE POWER OF US‘ is a single-day online news industry digerati calvacade, organized by the American Press Institute and held at the headquarters of the Associated Press. I should appeal to the FEW OF THEM in the media…
I never thought I’d call a daily newspaper beautiful. I’ve always considered daily news periodicals to be grubby Industrial Era products — cheap paper products fabricate by clanking contraptions that melted lead into hardened cylinders faced with typeset characters and that inked…
Speaking of The Guardian, it’s online wing is beta-testing a new service called Been There. Lloyd Shepherd. the deputy director of digital publishing, blogs that, ” Essentially, it’s a platform for people to recommend things they like to do in places they…
Congratulations to online journalist and software engineer Adrian Holovaty, whose chicagocrime.org today won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism. Created as a public service by Chicago resident Holovaty, with design input from Wilson Miner, chicagocrime.org lets…
As some readers of this site know, I’m contributing (and founded) a Corante group weblog entitled Rebuilding Media. Among its contributors is Bob Cauthorn. Online Journalism Review Journalist David LaFontaine wrote that a Cauthorn speech inspired him to write an article (Old-school…
I’d appreciate anyone’s recommendations concerning Internet hosting (co-location) facilities, including roof rights (i.e., satellite dish), in London or Dublin. E-mail me via vin at digitaldeliverance.com — Vin Crosbie
The New York Times will merge its print and online newsrooms in 2007.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations in the UK and Ireland reports that it and the members of JICWEBS (The Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards) yesterday agreed to exclude RSS User-Agents from member websites’ user traffic statistics, thus excluding RSS from the…
Long-time online entrepreneur Alan Meckler‘s Jupitermedia is selling its Search Engine Strategies trade shows and its ClickZ.com Network of Web sites, including its SearchEngineWatch.com, for $43 million in cash to Incisive Media plc, a public company in London. UPDATE: Alan Meckler explains…
Thoughts before appearing on a radio show about ‘citizen journalism’
Nokia predicts the future of mobile phones in 2006, 2007, and 2009.
LexisNexis and our client Critical Mention have formed an alliance to deliver TV video search and print news clips in a cost-effective package to small and medium-sized businesses.
An overview of U.K. Newspapers that use digital editions
The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that the vast majority of Americans still have no idea what those terms RSS and podcasting mean.
Five finalists are selected for the 2005 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
Brian Lowry of Variety concludes that traditional media’s blog attempts “almost invariably reek of desperation.”
Danny Meadows-Klue on how CraigsList is savaging newspapers’ revenues.
Critical Mention Licenses Associated Press Video Clips Online TV search solution expands international content for business intelligence users NEW YORK, July 25 /PRNewswire/ — Critical Mention, Inc., the leading Web-based television news search and monitoring service, today announced a video-licensing agreement with…
Work for our clients took precedence over posting here during the past month, creating a backlog of issues to blog. Now that I’ve got some free time again, I’m working on that backlog. One backlogged item involves The Newspaper of the Future,…
Can an organization be a clothing company without making its own threads? Much brouhaha has been written lately about whether or not Google is a media company. It’s the type of ontological question that tends to fascinate theologians during the medieval era…
Are you one of the publishers who thought that millions of people would use :CueCat scanners while reading printed newspapers? If so, A-Z Computer Liquidators of Anaheim, California, has a deal for you. Millions of :CueCat scanners for just US $0.30 apiece…
Here is a question for all you reporters and editors: How would Woodward and Bernstein (and The Washington Post) have reported the Watergate story if they had had today’s online technologies? What would they have done better? Worse? How might investigatin and…
During the Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek magazines’ Interactive Media conference in New Orleans, Jacob Weissberg of
Cocktails during Cinco de Mayo at the offices of Critical Mention above New York City’s 57th Street canyon I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been traveling most of the past few months — half that time to develop the video news…
Connecticut is the third smallest of the United States. One hundred miles wide, 50 miles high, and home to 3.3 million people, its largest cities are Bridgeport (population 138,000) and Hartford (pop. 133,000). A Connecticut city of 22,931 people was lost last…
Netimperative yesterday reported that there are now more broadband Internet users than dial-up Internet users in the United Kingdom. It reported that new figures released by BT Group show that, there are now more than 7.4 million broadband customers (including those of…
[A subscriber to the Poynter Institute‘s Online News discussion list this week asked for any research or experience about whether putting a story on a newspaper’s Web site the day before print publication has an affect on newsstand sales on the day…
Using the Online News Association’s discussion list, Jon Garfunkel of Civilities.net noted how the Ventura County Star has temporarily had to shutdown its online forums because (The Los Angeles Times reported[note: registration site]) of uncivil postings. Garfunkel asked: “Wouldn’t it be handy…
More than 100 U.S. magazines, twice the number from a year ago, now count significant numbers of digital editions among their circulation figures, according to the auditing firm of BPA Worldwide. Here are the top ten as of December 2004: eWeek 65,000…
It’s sometimes easy for new business ideas to blur the line between satire and reality. An example is the following idea we conceived while mulling over new markets for podcasting. Many users of iPods and other portable audio file players seem to…
We’re pleased that the agreement we setup between MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and Critical Mention received such good publicity today. It was the top headline in MediaPost Media Daily News and in CBS MarketWatch’s Frank Barnako’s Internet Daily. Media News Daily‘s lead was particularly…