by David | Apr 17, 2012 | Digital Migration, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch
27 Print Dollars for $1 Digital; Social News; Papers in Trouble; Kodak v. Fuji I posted this picture via Twitpic earlier today, and my digital brethren quickly chimed in on how much they felt like this in their daily lives. And I get it. Working in the media industry...
by David | Sep 27, 2011 | Digital Migration, newspaper crisis
This is painted on the ceiling of the Rila Monastery in the mountains of Bulgaria, one of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites. I can’t help but wonder whose eye this ancient artist used as the model for the Eye of God. The history and beauty of this complex...
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 | Jul 1, 2011 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, newspaper crisis, Online Video, Video
The clash of ancient and modern is never more stark than in these developing nations I’ve been in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the last week, training the local journalists and government information officers (aka PR flacks) on how best to take advantage of the...
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...
