Why Individuated Media are already superseding Mass Media
I tire of pathetic postings by the former, current journalists, or journalism professors, who blame Jeff Bezos for terminating a third of The Washington Post’s newsroom staff. Are you so childish to expect that Bezos (or any other billionaire or millionaire) should forever subsidize your increasingly money-losing enterprises which have lost three-quarters of their consumers …
The world’s media industries are more than a decade overdue to face, acknowledge, and act upon these nine bare facts about the epochal transformation of the media environment as the Industrial Era ends and the Information Era begins..
I’ve worked in the daily newspaper industry most of my life. I am the fifth generation of my family in that business; we published a daily paper for 140 years. I teach postgraduate New Media Management at one of the major media schools in the U.S. and specialize in how the media industries adjust …
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With nostalgia and some sadness, my family today announced that after 140 years, it’s leaving the newspaper business on May 1st. The daily Chronicle of Willimantic, Connecticut, founded by my step-great-great-grandfather John A. MacDonald in 1877, will be sold at the end of next month to Central Connecticut Communications, the owners of the New Britain …
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I’ve overwhelmingly tempted to quote words written for the Michael Corleone character by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola in their 1990 movie and novel The Godfather III: “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.” Except that I’m no gangster, and I’ve somehow always expected to get back into blogging. During …
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The text of my speech last week to the World Association of Newspapers’ Advertising Conference in Paris.