This Week In Newspapers

The future of newspapers is a hot topic — especially right now (with the economy tanking and announcements from newspapers about new and bigger financial troubles coming every day), and especially for newspapers.  Few would argue that without significant changes, the newspaper industry may cease to exist, as we know it, within a relatively short […]

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Podcast: A Conversation with Jessica Clark

Another podcast! WeMedia is producing a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media, technology, and social change figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news.  This is the fifth episode. Our goal is to help the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking place in our society, hear […]

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Groundhog Day

Occasionally I am reminded of the paradox that we each have a limited existence in the limitless framework of time. Or so reads the clock at the funeral home.. In a favorite movie, a jaded, cynical and arrogant weatherman covers the same, old story on February 2: the faked emergence of a groundhog from his […]

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Google Newspaper

Google announced yesterday that it will close its business that sells advertising space in newspapers, saying the effort failed to deliver the impact it wanted (article).  The program, which had attracted more than 800 US newspapers since it began in 2006, produced “good results” for some advertisers.  But as the director of Google Print Ads, […]

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Podcast: A Conversation with Michael Smolens, dotSUB

We’ve recorded another podcast! WeMedia is producing a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media, technology, and social change figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news.  Today marks our second installment.  Our goal is to help the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking place in our […]

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My plan for the Seattle PI (Part III)

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been put up for sale by the Hearst Corporation.  If it does not find a buyer in 60 days (56 days and counting…) — most analysts believe it won’t — the paper will cease production.  This week, I am outlining my plan for how to save the Seattle PI, return it […]

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Podcast: A conversation with Erik Hersman from Ushahidi

WeMedia is podcasting! Beginning today, WeMedia will produce a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media, technology, and social change figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news. Our goal is to provide the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking place in our society, hear from the […]

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My Plan for the Seattle PI (Part II)

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been put up for sale by the Hearst Corporation.  If it does not find a buyer in 60 days (56 days and counting…) — most analysts believe it won’t — the paper will cease production.  This week, I am outlining my plan for how to save the Seattle PI, return it […]

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