E&P: Lessons from the Web 2.0 Summit for the Newspaper Industry
Excerpt from my column in Editor & Publisher: “As I sat in the various sessions contemplating the extensive possibilities at our feet when bold leaders push existing boundaries, my Twitter feed continued to ding on my Blackberry with updates from Romenesko and Jay Rosen: reports of more of the same old MSM coverage of layoffs [...]
Elephant in the Room: When Will the GOP Join the Blogosphere
MediaLizzy and I joined our progressive and conservative voices on today’s HuffPost Media page: “Liberals may be understandably ecstatic about the influence the blogosphere has had on the election results, but truly thoughtful and responsible citizens should have reservations about the absence of conservative dialogue. It’s too easy these days to consume self-reinforcing information, whether [...]
My Christmas List: #1 A Viable Revenue Model for the Blogosphere
It was a particularly depressing week for journalists; I was tempted to turn Romenesko off my Twitter feed, since I kept waking up each morning to more sky-is-falling news about the future of the industry. (Check out his page; it’s a fantastically aggregated downer of all you need to know.) As my last E&P column [...]
E&P: Breaking Through to the Text Message Generation
Today I address something I’ve been contemplating for weeks: the way teens and younger millennials relate to mobile media more than their older counterparts. Kudos to USC’s Karen North and Celebrifantasy.com’s Marc Mitchell for pitching in on the column: From a business perspective, it appears to be a home run. Despite the collapse and resurrection [...]
Politico: Reporters Have No Access on Campaign Trail
Politico has an interesting story today on how news orgs are apparently wasting big bucks traveling with Obama and McCain to limited results: “Not only do the reporters have little interaction with the candidates, but increasingly they are having little impact on the broad campaign narratives and daily story lines that supply most voters with [...]
MSNBC, HuffPost Traffic Spikes
With numbers like this from Nielsen Online, the online CPMs are bound to increase at a sharper rate than has previously been predicted (thanks, Editor & Publisher): Brand — Aug. ’08 Unique Audience (000) — Aug. ’07 Unique Audience (000) MSNBC Digital Network — 52,212 — 29,564 Yahoo! News — 40,787 — 34,277 CNN Digital [...]
Hybrid Media Love Fest at HuffPost Luncheon
A cast of entertainment, media and political heavyweights discussed the role of new media in the 2008 election this afternoon. Moderated by Charlie Rose, the lineup included Rahm Emanuel, George Stephanopoulos, WaPost’s Katharine Weymouth, Will.i.am, YouTube’s Chad Hurley and the guy who plays Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live. While a lot of the usual [...]
E&P: The Pew Study Doesn’t Tell Whole Story on Young Readers
In today’s Editor & Publisher I argue that younger readers are spending less time on news sites because of social networking, mobile-dependency and an affinity for Colbert-style news. “Defenders of the millennial generation’s civic engagement had some explaining to do last week after a recent Pew study indicated that a third of us don’t seek [...]
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