Category: General Strategies
Outernet
One of the most audacious New Media projects I’ve been involved with as a viability consultant is Outernet, my friend Syed Karim‘s project to bring free Internet access to more than four billion people. He plans to do this by piggybacking a…
Proximate Remarks & Ultimate Causations
Previous webpage: The Greatest Change in the History of Media Let’s be frank about the media industries. Most of its executives don’t care a hoot about exactly what is causing the tumultuous changes in their business environment. What they want, almost regardless of…
The First Innovative Thing I’ve Posted in Seven Years
My reputation as a New Media consultant to the news industry, including my appointment since 2007 to teach postgraduate New Media Business at Syracuse’s Newhouse School, largely result from work I did long ago. For ten years beginning in 1993, I helped…
Purchase a Brick for Malaysiakini
In 2004, the offices the Malaysian investigative news website Malaysiakini rented in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Bangsar Utama were raided by police. That spooked the building’s landlord, who evicted the 14 year-old Malaysiakini. The site’s journalists briefly worked from a nearby…
The World’s Longest-Published Newspaper Successfully Transitions off Print
The world’s longest-published newspaper will become a non-printed, totally online service nine weeks from now. On 20 December, Lloyd’s List, which has been continuously published since 1734, will no longer be available in print. It’s online edition for the Web have has…
New Media Business Course Syllabi
For the past four years, I’ve been teaching a New Media Business for media course at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. It was originally open just to postgraduate students, but a few years ago we opened it to select…
Augmented Reality for Printed Publications
We’re generally not a company that emphasizes a continuing role for paper (as opposed to epaper) in the future, but we are enthusiastic about some of the Augmented Reality mobile phone applications being developed by the Dutch company Layar for use with…
Personalize Media 2011 Keynote Speech
[34-minute PowerPoint video of keynote speech opening the fifth annual Personalize MEdia Conference (formerly Individuated Media conferences), Boulder, Colorado. June 20, 2011. How traditional media companies have gone astray by misperceiving consumers’ switch from analog to digital formats to be the greatest trend…
Chisholm States Why Charging For Newspaper Websites Is Self-Destructive
Jim Chisholm, the world’s expert about newspaper operations, tells why newspapers charging for their websites are self-destructive.
The Epochal Change That The Rise of Social Media Demarcates
Whenever anyone from the traditional media industries writes, blogs, or tweets about Social Media, they miss the point. I find this so exasperating that I want to stab them with the point. Here is my thrust: When newspaper, magazine, radio, and television…
Citizen Journalism Absent in the Arab Press
My thanks to Dr. Khalid Mohammed Ghazi, editor of the Cairo-based Arab Press Agency, for citing some of my work in his editorial, صحافة المواطن.. غائبة عن الصحافة العربية (Citizen Journalism…Absent from the Arab Press), published on Wednesday in, among other newspapers, Al…
Rupert Murdoch, the Convergence Placebo, and iPad Gellcaps
How the Apple iPad makes the placebo of convergence easier for newspaper executives to swallow.
The End of Newspapers and The Future of Information
Recommending the French book, La Fin des Journaux et l’avenir de l’information (The End of Newspapers and the Future of Information).
Why Americans Who Don’t Use The Internet Don’t Use It
Why Americans who don’t use the Internet don’t use it.
Savvy Articles About Change or Its Lack in News Media
Here are some savvy articles about how media is changing, will change radically, and why its companies might not be adapting to change.
Verizon and Google Connive To Control Internet Traffic
The Verizon-Google proposal today announced for regulating Internet traffic is as good for consumers as the Axis Pact was for the world in 1940.
The Media Academic Research Treadmill
Several hundred media professors will converge on Denver, Colorado, this week for the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. I won’t be among them (I’ll be at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where my fiancé is undergoing…
Singaporean TV News Coverage
TV news coverage of the third annual Media Lecture, delivered by Prof. Vin Crosbie on July 14, 2010, at the Drama Center of the National Library of Singapore.
Reinventing Your Local Newspaper
I’m spending much of the next few months in the Republic of South Africa where I’m helping that country’s leading journalism school in what I hope will be a notable advance in how journalism and news publishing are practiced in the 21st Century.
Media Chess
Despite its complication, a game of chess is basically a three-act play. So too is our current, transitional era for media companies.
Training Journalists for the 21st Century
My biweekly Digital Publishing column at ClickZ.com is about the skills that journalism schools need to teach in this century.
New Media Business Syllabus for Spring 2009
What I’m teaching in the New Media Business classes at Syracuse University this semester.
Why Should Newspapers Offer Online Video News?
Why should newspapers offer online video news? Professor Crosbie explains why to journalists from the Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, South Africa, Russia, and the Ukraine, during the Broadcast Design workshop organized by the Media Development Loan Fund. Recorded by Televizija Vijesti in Podgorica, Republic of Montenegro, on November 21, 2008.ast Design workshop organized by the Media Development Loan Fund. Recorded by Televizija Vijesti in Podgorica, Republic of Montenegro, on November 21, 2008.
Beer Is The Better Investment Than U.S. Newspaper Companies
My ClickZ column Friday pointed out how you would have gotten a better Return on Investment from purchasing $10,000 in beer three years ago and getting drunk each night since than you would have from investing that amount of money in U.S. newspaper company stocks.
What Is/Are the New Media?
Video clip of Vin Crosbie defining the term New Media and its potential.
Why Mass Media Content is Dumbing Down
Why Mass Media are ‘dumbing down’, becoming more timid.
Transforming American Newspapers (Part 2)
Why the major reason for American daily newspapers’ demise is their inertia has violated the basics of the Principle of Supply & Demand.
Transforming American Newspapers (Part 1)
American daily newspapers are dying for only two reasons that have nothing to do with advertiser flight or with lacks of sufficient multimedia, convergence, interactivity, Web 2.0, or ‘citizen journalism. Learn the two real reasons.
Second Annual Global Conference on Individuated Newspapers
Why it is imperative for newspaper companies individuate their editions in print, e-paper,and Web formats.
Leadership
At this time of fundamental challenges to media industries, are you a true leader or are you a bureaucrat hiding behind a high title?
LA Times Confirms Ben Franklin's Definition of Insanity
the latest repeated cutting of The Los Angeles Times’ newsroom budget confirms Ben Franklin’s definition of insanity.
American Journalism Review Examines The Faith and Hope in Online
American Journalism Review examines the faith and hope that American newspapers put in online publishing as the savior of the companies now that print is declining.
It's Time for News Organizations to Stop Defining Themselves by Obsolete Products
In order to survive, news organizations must stop defining themselves by products (such as ‘newspapers,’ ‘news radio stations,’ etc.) that are becoming obsolete
Time To Give Away Some More Consulting Advice (4)
Interactivity and why hardly any news organizations’ websites offer it.
Time To Give Away Some More Consulting Advice (3)
The third of ten pieces of advice that I give my consulting clients.
Time To Give Away Some More Consulting Advice (2)
The second of ten pieces of advice that I give my consulting clients.
Time To Give Away Some More Consulting Advice
Over the next days, I’ll tell the ten pieces of advice that I give my consulting clients. The need for ‘immediacy’ online is the first.
Are News Sites in Britain Wasting One-Third Their Advertising Potential?
Geography disappears online, except for language and culture. More and more research indicates that one-third of the traffic to news sites based in Britain comes from America. Those sites had best advertise to this audience or else waste over one-third of their sites advertising potential.
The Dead Tree Digital Replacement Index
Forget most financial reports from newspaper companies. The Dead Tree Digital Replacement Index calculates if a newspaper company’s digital revenue gains compensate for the company’s print edition revenue losses.
The Presses Will Be Outsourced Before Stopped
Though Business Week’s Jon Fine speculates that some major newspapers will stop their presses and publish online only, that would only make their predicament worse and many will instead outsource their printing. Why stopping the presses would be financially devastating. About the mistaken presumptions about why all newspapers need to do in order to survive is publish online. And why the San Francisco Chronicle would be better off financially if it delivered cash rather than newspapers to its readers.
Killed ASAP (which means October)
Why the Associated Press’s ASAP service made no sense and why the AP must revamp itself rather than perform side experiments like ASAP.
Brain Dumps Float All Boats
Why I’d not been blogging much this year.
Supply & Demand and 'Unpackaging' on Newspaper Content Online
Why news publications that withold some content from online, charge for ‘premium’ online content, or give access to some online content only to print subscribers are not only failing to stem their print circulation erosion but also reducing their sites’ online growth and potential.
Time and Times
Times magazines redesigns its print edition to largely points to its website. And The New York Times’ woefully underperforming TimesSelect to let students in for free.
Accounting for Time
Reasons why there have been few posts here. Plus, what the main reason for newspapers’ readership declines is not. Plus, today’s observations
Each Day on the Road Requires Three in the Office
NYTimes.com’s TimesSelect’s pyrrhic $11.5 million revenues demonstrate the One Percent conversion rule. The New York Times reports Schibsted’s online success. The Society for Newspaper Design names Äripev, El Economista, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, and Politiken as the ‘World’s Best Designed’ newspapers. American Journalism Review profiles Adrian Holovaty. And Dr. Piet Bakker tracks the rise of free printed daily newspapers.
'Citizen Journalism' Is Only One Of Many Necessary Tools
‘Citizen journalism’ is but one tool of many tools necessary to reverse declines in news usage. But it’s not a panacea, and its becoming a distraction for an industry that desperately needs to conceive, fabricate, and wield those other tools.
Digital Norway
My hearty thanks to the staff of the
Hundreds of American Newspapers Surrender
After nearly ten years of trying to compete against the search engines for online advertising, most major American newspaper companies have surrendered to Google and Yahoo!