Digital Deliverance

Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry explains why he stopped writing a newspaper column, why he thinks newspapers are dead, and his opinion of newspaper podcasting.

The World Association of Newspapers creates the Gebran Tueni Award, which will annually honor a newspaper publisher or editor in the Arab world who demonstrates the press freedom values upheld by Tueni.

American printed newspaper staffing and expenses benchmarks

Congratulations to Gary Kebbel (left) for being named Journalism Initiatives Program Officer for the the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, where he’s assigned to identify the people, processes and projects that will advance quality journalism in this century. Kebbel most…

Congratulations to my client Critical Mention Inc. for closing a $4 Million round of Series B financing last month! CIBC Capital Partners, Silicon Alley Venture Partners, Stonehenge Capital, plus other prior investors in Critical Mention, placed the money with the leading online…

“The people formerly known as the audience.” New York University Journalism Professor Jay Rosen, quoted in The New York Times about how new media has empowered people to correct traditional media.

I’m back at my desk for 2006. This will be a pivotal year for the news industry. The tipping point has been reached. Most news broadcasts and printed newspapers and news magazines finally realize that they are, if not yet dying, then dinosaurs in the tar pit. Meanwhile, the many upstarts who hope to replace those dinosaurs will this year be realizing that their solutions (such as just ‘citizen journalism’) are neither as functional or appropriate as they think. Stay tuned for an exciting year. Plus , I’m pleased to be entering my 27th year in the news industry.

Why and where I’ve been offline during the past week.

A known flaw in Windows 2000, plus a smashed backup PC, leaves me largely offline. I’m meanwhile trying to run the business from a wireless PDA.

Tawdry publications can now afford flying cameras of their own.

Traveling too much during October and November, I am remiss in not yet congratulating, or even noting, the election on October 18th of David Carlson (pictured), the Cox/Palm Beach Post professor of new media journalism at the University of Florida, to president…

Why ‘Verified’ Circulation Is Now Separate From ‘Paid’ Circulation.

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…

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.…

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…