Sixty-four percent of people polled told Pew they got their weekly news from three different types of media, with 15% reporting that they looked at up to six different media types.READ»
Just as Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only The Daily is trying to refresh news journalism for the digital age, USA Today is launching a desperate bid to remain relevant by adding printed data tags to every daily print section.READ»
Is Apple about to re-jig the newspaper business and announce a subscription service for its iDevices? A hot new rumor suggests as much, and we almost believe it.READ»
Even as competitors are busy bricking paywalls around their newspaper Web sites, desperately trying to keep the old business models running, the U.K.'s Guardian is taking a wholly different path. The paper has just introduced a free ...READ»
We've all heard that newspapers are struggling in the United States. Some, like the Christian Science Monitor, have even stopped printing and have moved all of their operations online. So, we wanted to visit Silicon Valley's ...READ»
It's nice that CEO Eric Schmidt feels Google has a "moral responsibility" to help reinvent the newspaper industry. But how?
Hyper-personalization might be the way, according to the Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard, which pressed ...READ»
Rupert Murdoch is so concerned about the future of traditional (i.e. his) news publishing at the hands of Google, he's launched paid Web newspapers via an online club. But if Google's so evil, why doesn't he block its ...READ»
Wikileaks is like Wikipedia for sensitive information: a user-populated dossier of classified and leaked stuff, submitted by anonymous sources all over the world. Johnny Law has attempted to shut it down both domestically and abroad, ...READ»
This week Wesleyan University announced that an anonymous donor had given the school $20,000 to subsidize paper New York Times subscriptions for students for the next two years. One hundred and fifty miles away at Princeton ...READ»
The Wall Street Journal is set to begin charging $2 per week for iPhone readers, reports Paid Content. Rupert Murdoch said that other News Corp. properties may begin using a similar model, in which Fox shows would no longer be free on ...READ»
Print Is Dying Because... It's Printed
"The Printed Blog" was an experiment in publishing: a hybrid online publication with a printed counterpart that could be delivered to your house. The venture's founder, Josh Karp, believed that ...READ»
"It's my hope that you will see this as a unique property that will quickly become the must-read for anyone interested in the media, the business of it and the personalities behind it."
So begins the "Note from Dan Abrams," a kind ...READ»
Tuscon, Denver and Seattle have all recently lost their printed newspapers. One, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has moved to an all-online model, cutting its staff of 136 to down to just 20. It joins growing Web-papers like The ...READ»
As of today the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is a 100% online publication, with the final print run of its paper edition already complete. Does this move sound a death knell for physical newspapers?
The Post-Intelligencer has ...READ»
The newest form of electronic journalism, in 1981, is quite hilarious in retrospect. My favorite bit: "This is an experiment, we're trying to figure out what it's going to mean to us as editors and reporters and what it ...READ»
The space between media and public relations is filled with gray, but we're learning very quickly that the more things change, the smaller that space becomes. Already, each of us has experienced profound change in our industry. I say ...READ»
