There is a new player in the online news space. Welcome www.globalpost.com. Their mission: “GlobalPost intends to build a community of top correspondents as well as a community of users of the site who share the need and the desire for quality news about the world.” More here. Brian ReichBrian is Managing Director of little […]
On Friday, the Hearst Corporation announced that it was putting the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the older of Seattle’s two daily papers, up for sale. If a buyer is not found within 60 days (57 and counting…) then the paper will cease its print production. The prospects of finding a buyer, according to analysts, is slim and […]
In an article posted online yesterday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Adam Lashinsky of Fortune Magazine that he wished he could save the newspaper industry, but he didn’t know how. Very generous. Dan Froomkin, former Washington Post reporter and now head of the NeimanWatchdog.org wrote on Huffington Post some suggestions for how Google can help […]
I like newspapers, a lot. I subscribe to two newspapers in print, and read dozens more each morning online. But I don’t rely on newspapers for news. By the time the morning newspaper arrives (or posts online) the news is old, obsolete. I get my breaking news online, via text message and Twitter, or through […]
Barack Obama is a huge news story. His campaign generated unprecedented levels of media attention. Every move during his transition is being chronicled and analyzed by press from all over the world, in every format imaginable. And when his presidency finally begins, more media will be watching and following the President than at any point […]
The end of the year is rapidly approaching, which means the media world has once again become obsessed with lists. There are top ten lists popping up in newspapers, magazines, and on radio and TV for everything: crises and controversies, news stories, celebrity train-wrecks, movies, songs, books, and tv shows, iPhone applications, games (both video […]
On Monday, Time Magazine Washington Bureau Chief, Jay Carney, announced he was leaving his post to take the job of Communications Director for incoming Vice President Joe Biden. Mark Halperin broke the story on The Page blog writing simply “Outgoing newsmag bureau chief Jay Carney to be assistant to the vice president and his director […]
A study released last week suggests “that the media may be entering a climate trance (or ending a bubble, depending on your view).” The study was conducted by Maxwell Boykoff, who studies the media and climate change at Oxford University, and posted by Andrew Revkin, the New York Times’ climate writer/blogger. Revkin quotes Dr. Boykoff […]
The arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges (including a claim that he tried to profit from the selection of a replacement for now President-Elect Obama’s Senate seat) is a huge story. But, within this huge story there were two other huge stories from the standpoint of the media. First, among the examples […]
The Tribune Co. has declared bankruptcy – to no one’s surprise. That’s what makes the demise of one of the great U.S. news companies so tragic, in the Greek sense. The seeds of failure were set a decade ago with a misguided focus on acquisitions and local market monopolies across media. Community interests, journalistic passion […]