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…
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…
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…
Speech to the 2005 annual meeting of the Broadcast Education Association.
I’m today in Las Vegas, where the Radio & Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) section of the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention has ended and the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) section has just begun. Although I work with RTNDA members, I’m…
I’ve organized a New York Online News Association meetup group. It’s for New York City metropolitan area members of the Online News Association. If you work in online news media in the tri-state NYC area, please join us. Similar groups were recently…
I’d attended the Newspaper Association of America’s Connections newspaper website conference during each of the past ten years (it was originally and is again a side conference held during the NAA’s annual NEXPO newspaper exposition). However, I let my membership lapse during…
This past weekend, most of the stories about the online news industry focused on Associated Press President & CEO Tom Curley‘s keynote speech at the annual conference of the Online News Association. Though it was good to hear that the AP has…
I regret that I won’t be attending this year’s Online News Association annual conference, to be held Friday and Saturday in Hollywood. Instead, at the request of Ifra, I’ll be in New York on Friday afternoon lecturing, on the subjects of e-mail…
The annual IFRA/WAN/FIPP Beyond the Printed Word online publishing conference was held in Prague yesterday and today. A summary of the presentations is available from WAN and there is an interesting conference moblog. Here from the conference (my thanks to the IFRA…
I regret that I’ve cancelled my attendence and presentations this week at the Segon Seminari Internacional de Periodisme Digital (Second International Seminar of Digital Journalism) and at la Primera Fira de Mitjans Digitals dels Pa
I’m in Lawrence, Kansas, today through Thursday for a two-day conference in which The World Company shows how it’s operating the successful LJWorld.com newspaper site, Lawrence.com community site, and KUSports.com site. The World Company operates the newspaper, a TV station, and the…
We’re pleased to have accepted some speaking engagements during the next ten months: September 23 — at the Segon Seminari Internacional de Periodisme Digital (Second International Seminar of Digital Journalism). The event is being organized by el Grup de Periodistes Digitals and…
The webcast of my panel, Disrupting the News Industry: Media Concentration and Participatory Journalism, a week ago at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s and Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism’s Internet East & West: China and U.S. conference has been…
Due to internal changes here at Digital Deliverance, transcontinental travel, some speaking engagements, influenza, and some unexpected new clients, I haven’t posted much here during the past week. After all, freely posting news & commentary here is of lesser importance than health,…
Today, I’m at The Internet East and West: How Digital Technology is Transforming China and the nitd States at the Univrsity of California at Berkeley. The first panel today, Revisiting Virtual Communities: the Internet’s Impact on Society and Politics, is underway. Susan…
Disrupting the News Industry: Media Concentration and Participatory Journalism, is a panel next Friday morning at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Admission is free. Panelists are: Neil Chase, managing editor of CBS MarketWatch. Dan Gillmor, columnist for…
In the foreground, Tom Regan of the Christian Science Monitor, the turned head of an attendee we don’t know, , and Gordon Joseloff of WestportNow.com and formerly of CBS News and UPI. That’s me near the clock, commenting to the What is…
Bloggers attending the BoggerCon II conference Saturday at Harvard University’s Law School voted that forming a trade association of bloggers and also giving advertisers better usage statistics about blogs are the two best paths toward generating revenues from blogging. During a session…
On Saturday, I’ll be attending BloggerCon at Harvard University Law School. Nearly 400 other people have registered to attend. I look forward to this conference’s sessions on What is Journalism?, Blogging in Business, Shirky’s Power Law, and Blogging as a Business. For…
I’m today watching the live webcast from the University of Texas‘ 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism. The first panel, Online Journalism in Asia, Europe and Latin America What is different and how does it compare with the U.S.?, featured speakers from…
The other thing that I learned at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Assocation’s Wireless 2004 conference> in Atlanta is that when 70,000 members of the mobile telecommunications industry congregate at one place, it is awfully hard to get a mobile dial-tone.
Ross Castle, Killarney, Ireland (Click to enlarge) © Vin Crosbie, 2002. I’ll be lecturing to — conversing with, is more accurate — a New Media masters class at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Friday and then be at…
Our thanks to the New Media Program at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University for allowing our managing partner to speak on the Digital Images: The Next Frontier panel during its Storytelling and New Technologies: A Conversation About the Future…
Our thanks to the Online News Association for letting our managing partner moderate the How Technology Will Change News panel at its annual conference in Chicago this weekend. And our particular thanks to the panelist: Martha L. Stone, training director at the…
Flights cancelled out of New York City due to near hurricane strength winds, we yesterday took the 13-hour drive to Chicago, where we ‘re now at the Online News Association‘s annual conference. Attendence is around 250, WiFi has been provided, and dozen…
A topic we’ll be exploring later this week at the Online News Association’s annual conference is how to get consumers to read electronic publications more often, more fully, and for more time. We’ve frequently been using the audience overview section of The…
Later this week, we’ll be attending two online journalism conferences: The Online News Association‘s annual conference and a Storytelling and New Technology conference at the Medill School of Journalism, both events held in the Chicago suburb of Evanston. The ONA is an…
A mountaineer who takes cover during a storm or avalanche doesn’t feel a great sense of accomplishment when he returns to where he last was in his ascent. Although it’s great to survive, it’s not really progress. That was my feeling too…
We plan to skip the WAN/IFRA/FIPP conference this week in Rome and attend the micropayments conference on Monday in Manhattan (see previous item for outlines of both). The newspaper industry has never developed any theoretical framework about either what and how it…
Two notable conferences are being held during the next three working days: The World Association of Newspapers (WAN), the International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP), and IFRA (the joint International Newpaper Colour Association and F
Two weeks ago, we noted PaidContent.org’s report that UK Internet Advertising Bureau Chairman Richard Eyre‘s speech to the UK Association of Online Publishers Association’s annual awards banquet was practically a cry for merger between the IAB and the AOP. Mike Butcher, deputy…
We thank the students in Strategic Communication Research I at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism (‘MoJo‘) for their time this morning. For those whose questions we didn’t answer in person, we’ll answer you this coming week by e-mail.
Here is the text of my speech today at Exploring Freedom of Expression in a Digital World, the 2nd Annual Fall Symposium of the University of Missouri’s Center for the Digital Globe. It equated 100 years ago to today, provided examples of the revolution underway in communications, defined the New Medium and how it functions, and outlined some consequences that this New Medium will have on credibility & responsibility in civic affairs.
On Thursday afternoon, we’ll be speaking about Credibility & Responsibility in an Age of the Individual’s Media at the University of Missouri’s Center for the Digital Globe. CDiG is holding its 2nd Annual Fall Symposium, entitled Exploring Freedom of Expression in a…
Emily Bell of Guardian Online won The UK Association of Online Publishers‘s best Consumer Editor Award and David Molony of Emap Media’s TotalTele.com won the best Business Editor Award. The Web site of the Financial Times won 2003 AOP Chairman’s Award for…
Last week, we criticized the decision of Advance Internet President & Creator Director Jeff Jarvis not to speak at the Online News Association‘s annual conference because the ONA plans to charge each speaker a regular attendee’s registration fee. We think the ONA’s…
Last week, We reported our experiences speaking at this year’s Seybold San Francisco conference, which we left on Friday. Scott Rosenberg of Salon.com reports his experience speaking there, plus why blogs and RSS are unlikely to replace commercial publishing and what we…
Our presentation on The Wireless World panel yesterday at the Seybold-Romano Future of Print Conference, is available for
The Seybold San Francisco 2003 Conference this year was, in the words Wired.com, “barren and sedate.” Attendence was down to only one-third the usual at this 21st annual Seybold show, which was held not in the main Moscone Conference Center but in…
Here are the conclusions that Adobe Systems Inc.’s Principal Scientist Dov Issacs, and Rochester Institute of Technology Professor of Digital Printing Frank Romano, who more often than now have differing or opposing viewpoints, gave in the concluding session yesterday at the Seybold-Romano…
Pity our friend Jeff Jarvis, president & creative director of Advance Internet, publishers of Web sites of more than 20 major American newspapers and for all the Conde Nast magazines. The Online News Association asked Jeff to sit on a panel about…
Electronic paper will begin to steal market share from print as soon as 3 years from now, predicted Michael Kleper, the Paul and Louis Miller Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology‘s School of Print Media. Moreover, within three years, printers…
More than $25 billion in printing revenues have been lost to electronic competitors during the past three years, printing strategies consultant Keith Davidson told the Seybold-Romano Future of Print conference today. Moroever, 70% of the press industry’s disappeared during 1992-2000 due to…
Although the printing industry’s business has grown by 5% to 7% per annum for most of the past 20 years, that growth has permanently ended, according to Frank Romano, who holds the Roger K. Fawcett Distinguished Professor of Digital Publishing chair at…
This week, we’re at the Seybold 2003 Conference in San Francisco, where tomorrow we’re speaking about ‘The Wireless World’ in the Seybold-Romano Future of Print Conference track. If you’re also at Seybold this week, contact us by e-mail.
The International Newspaper Marketing Association‘s 2004 World Congress will be held at Plaza Hotel in New York City on May 16-19.
“Leading figures from the world’s online journalism community gathered in Barcelona this week for the ninth annual NetMedia conference on digital journalism,” Journalism.co.uk reported about last week’s NetMedia 2003 Conference in Barcelona. Around 200 journalists, students and publishing professionals from across Europe…