NOTE: We asked each of our 2009 Game Changers Awards finalists to write about their projects, what they’ve learned along the way and what’s next. This essay submitted by Stuart Coxe, Executive Producer and Guinevere Orvis, Interactive Producer of Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister. Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister is a game changer. It begins […]
Online news and newspaper sites are either struggling to attract audiences or generate revenue (and some struggle with both). The reasons are many: news sites have to compete for attention with blogs, social networks, and other channels in the increasingly crowded online world; as audiences have more opportunities to connect, get and share information, and […]
NOTE: We asked each of our 2009 Game Changers Awards finalists to write about their projects, what they’ve learned along the way and what’s next. This essay written by Doug Oplinger, Managing Editor of the Akron Beacon Journal. The American Dream: Hanging by a Thread Summary: In 2006, the four-time Pulitzer Prize winning Akron Beacon […]
Is media bad for you? Has technology ruined a whole generation of children? The answer, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Yale University, is yes. (Here is coverage of the study from the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Broadcasting & Cable. The researchers took a detailed look at […]
The 18.1 percent decline spanned all categories of revenue, including a 30.9 percent decline in classifieds and a 3 percent drop in online revenue. More from Advertising Age, the Newspaper Association of America and analysis from Alan Mutter. Andrew NachisonAndrew Nachison is founder of We Media. He lives in Reston, Virginia. www.nach.com
Today’s New York Times notes that local news anchors are increasingly being forced into retirement. The article explains: “Across the country, longtime local TV anchors are a dying breed. Facing an economic slump and a severe advertising downturn, many stations have cut costs drastically in the last year, and veteran anchors, with their expensive contracts, […]
Like many people, I spent much of last week consuming coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. I first learned of the attacks while watching TV. While switching between various cable news networks, I also surfed across several online newspaper and similar sites looking for updates and insights. I watched for updates from people I […]
Brian spotted an editorial in the Seattle Times published yesterday (Nov. 20, 2008), noting the dominance of Google in online advertising – and celebrating the failure of an advertising deal between Google and Yahoo! For Brian, the curiosity was a media company complaining publicly about Google. For me, the curiosity was that he read a […]
On the day The New York Times outed a “senior fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence,” New Yorkers were passing around a special edition of the Times that declared the end of the war in Iraq. Thousands of free copies were distributed at subway stations and public squares throughout the city. I snared a collector’s […]
URL: www.blogher.com What: Reacting to blogging conferences and academic discussions dominated by techy men, three tech, marketing and publishing saavy women – Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins – launched a blog conference in 2005 for women. The conference took off, a year later major advertisers flocked to hang out with the […]