by David | Aug 7, 2011 | New Marketing, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers, television
The good folks at CNN asked me to appear on Backstory” to talk about the News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal. I tried to oblige them with some insights onto why this kind of scandal keeps happening, and why. You can see the results of the interview...
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 David | Nov 12, 2009 | Digital Migration, infographic, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Print die-hards claimed that all that was needed to reverse the audience migration to the internet was to make newspapers more “lively” in appearance. Early verdict: looks pretty, but the advertising still isn’t there, and that sound you heard was...
by David | Aug 28, 2009 | Digital Migration, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
This week’s debate is not as acrimonious as in the past (although there are exceptions to that, of course), and in the wake of the biz models released by the Aspen conference, some people are taking building new revenue streams seriously. At least, they say...
by David | Aug 16, 2009 | Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
In which I get very “Meta” and write a blog post that aggregates other blog posts that were written about aggregation. I am also posting this over on the AIM Group blog, as part of what I think might become a regular feature, “This week in the paid...
by David | Jul 24, 2009 | Digital Migration, new media, Newspapers
At the risk of having some tort-toting barrister slithering under my office door, here’s a link to a NY Times story about the latest salvo in the growing war between Traditional Media and online news aggregators/commenters. The Associated Press said Thursday...
