by David | Oct 17, 2010 | advertising, Digital Migration, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Online Video
First in a series of videos taken during a panel discussion for PR Newswire at the LA Times building. On the panel with me, the delightfully funny and plainspoken Serena Ehrlich, who knows more about how to handle media in the digital age than the last...
by David | Sep 14, 2010 | newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch
The Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers used to represent the sinewy, beating heart of American journalism. Then they got run into the ground, bought up by Tribune dorks who were more interested in playing out their boyhood “I wanna play right field for the...
by David | Feb 9, 2010 | journalism, new media, newspaper crisis, Newspapers
Signs were there that DVD sales were about to implode; industry ignored all warnings To anyone in the newspaper industry, the parallels are eerie. The disruptive technology is introduced, and people with the ability to look beyond this quarter’s P&L...
by The Wordyeti | Sep 10, 2008 | journalism, newspaper crisis
Still up in lovely Point Reyes, decompressing and re-imagining our web presence, so the output here has been seriously cramped. However, these three little items just beg for notice. 1. We've all seen the "MSM sucks, don't believe what it says"...
by The Wordyeti | Aug 1, 2008 | newspaper crisis
In all the trainings I’ve done over the last couple of years, the one hot-button issue guaranteed to touch off a passionate debate, even amongst the most detached, sit-on-their-hands group is the reader comments section. See, journalists just hate them damn...
by The Wordyeti | Jun 25, 2008 | journalism, newspaper crisis
A wildly successful industry is faced with a bold challenge from scrappy digital interlopers and reacts in all the predictable ways… Stage 1: The industry reacts with disdain – "The new digital stuff is just a fad. Look – our sales are going...
