The Newsonomics of Why Everyone Seems to Be Starting a News Site
First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab You’d think the new digital printing presses were minting money. Just within the last month, all kinds of details have emerged about the construction...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of How and Why
Follow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Try this: Make a list with two simple columns. On the left, write Who, What, When, and Where. On the right...
View ArticleTNR, the AQ and the Perils of New (and Old) News Management
First published at Capital New York On Thursday, I had lunch with a veteran colleague in the news trade. He’s a top editor, an innovator in digital-only, magazine and newspaper media. Like many,...
View ArticleWhat Are They Thinking? NBC-U and The ‘Digital Dozen’ Seek Perpetual Youth
Consider them Ponce de Leon investments. Just as the Spanish explorer trawled Florida for the Fountain of Youth 500 years ago, NBC-Universal and its peers are now embarking on expensive voyages to...
View ArticleWhat the Next Recession Could Do to The Media Business
Maybe it’s a blip. Maybe we’ll see the global stock market plunge of the last week as a hysterical overreaction to China’s economic woes. Or maybe, it’s the unwelcome, but real, signal that the...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Univision’s Big Bet on E-Commerce, Built on Gawker’s Ashes
What was Gawker? A trailblazing, piercer of pretense? A snarky, vestigial leftover of the early bloggy web? A company that early on understood the relationship between reader enthusiasm and selling...
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