by David | Aug 10, 2009 | Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch
Another quick hit, this one courtesy of an article in AdAge about how the free-fall in the ad industry has at least stopped, but what’s emerging out of the wreckage is that things will never go back to the way they were. “This current economy has...
by David | Jun 22, 2009 | Newspaper Deathwatch
This came to me via the Media Giraffe project at UMass (and a very special h/t to Janine Warner, currently filming a video for Microsoft up in Seattle), and I was inspired to write a long comment in response to it. Basically, Circulate is the creation of a team at the...
by David | Jun 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
We’ve reached the “Aw to hell with them, let it all burn” stage Just a quick late-night hit while I prepare to shoot an interview tomorrow at KCET. I’ve spent much of the last couple years of my life trying to come up with case studies,...
by David | May 19, 2009 | Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Man, I didn’t think there was anyone left at the Chronicle to fire – and here I read that they just canned 151 more people? Delfin Vigil, a reporter at the Chron, took out an ad in the Examiner to decry the sorry state of the paper after all the cutbacks,...
by David | May 15, 2009 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Over at The Digitalists, the question of “What would micropayments mean for journalists?” was raised. Well, there are two schools of thought to this. The first is the one that was espoused there: What exactly do these people think that newspaper execs...
