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I came away from reading the State of the News Media in 2011 with the sense that newspapers in particular are being left farther behind by all of the advances in technology and payment systems. One example is Apple. Although it is selling subscriptions to publications on its iTunes platform, it is taking 30% of […]
Read More »The rich are getting richer in the online advertising market, which means the antitrust lawyers must be sharpening their pencils. eMarketer is forecasting that Facebook will have one-fifth of the online display advertising market in 2011 and will displace Yahoo as leader in the category. The digital research website is also predicting that the top […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Rick Edmonds of the Poynter Institute has the best early take on why Washington’s hyperlocal TBD.com failed. One of his points is that the operation started out too big, with 50 people. This number troubled me from the first announcement of the launch. Why wouldn’t they start with a smaller staff […]
Read More »Una versión de esta columna en español se encuentra aquí. The blessing and the curse of the web is that everything is measurable. For reporters working in newsrooms that measure the traffic of articles on a minute-to-minute basis, it can be discouraging to see fluff trump substance. In some newsrooms, reporters are competing for raises […]
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