So much potential, crushed by tradition
Great post, by Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0, on why newspaper Web sites aren't doing well on the Web. Looking for information on recent storms in Northern Virginia, he had trouble finding it on...
View ArticleMagazines can succeed online
Jon Friedman writes in MarketWatch that magazines editors should quit complaining that "it is impossible to fully embrace the Web," and heed his eight simple rules to succeed online. Among the rules is...
View ArticleWhat kids do online
MediaPost reports on a study by Symantec analyzing parents' and children's online behavior and attitudes. "The study found that parents in the U.S. think their kids are online two hours a month, but in...
View ArticleWho's the competition?
Newspapers' competitive environment is quickly expanding, and now there is evidence - when measuring online traffic - that some are losing out to television stations in their markets. A study by...
View ArticleRediscovering print advertising
Online businesses naturally advertise online, right? One European company, Moneysupermarket.com, is said to be "looking to newspaper advertising to drive more traffic directly to its price comparison...
View ArticleReadership evangelist Rich Somerville passes
We at the Media Management Center and the Readership Institute are saddened by the passing of our former colleague Rich Somerville. Rich worked on the culture and management practices component of the...
View ArticleThe Internet a primary source of election news
Pew Research Center reports that, at this point in the 2008 presidential election campaign, more people have gotten news online than in all of 2004. This is fueled primarily by watching videos and...
View ArticleIs this really the solution?
News organizations are hurting and should re-think their strategies for the future - that much is clear. If hanging on to core values is essential, you'd think these organizations are ready to shed...
View ArticleEconomic bias in the news
One of the early lessons we learned from RI's Impact study was that including ordinary people in the newspaper is linked to higher readership of same paper. Not to mention, it's good journalism. But,...
View ArticleGoogle to disrupt the online measurement industry
A story in the Wall Street Journal reports that Google will soon offer a Web measurement service that is based on data gathered from Web servers. It will compete with services such as ComScore and...
View ArticleIs there a market for news?
The New York Times reports today that, in terms of growth, Google News lags behind Google as a whole: "the company is far from achieving the kind of dominant position in news that it has in other...
View ArticleBlogging is a community strategy
Not a publishing process, says Adam Tinworth (via Greenslade). As long as journalists focus on content rather than people, they will lose out on people's urge to be part of a community, rendering...
View ArticleReaders' revolt?
(Via Greenslade) A newspaper subscriber is suing the News & Observer in a class action suit over its decision to cut staff and editions. He claims a breach of contract - he would not have renewed...
View ArticleA newsroom built from scratch
Cutbacks have many editors pondering how to allocate precious resources. Say you'd do things differently if you controlled the newsroom budget? BuzzMachine's Jeff Jarvis offers a spreadsheet with his...
View ArticleCongress looks into online advertising
Targeted online advertising may be the business answer everyone hopes for, but it is not without problems. In a Senate hearing about the privacy implications of online advertising which included...
View ArticleLaying odds on the iPhone
Traditional media companies are laying odds that Apple's iPhone will hold its popularity into its second generation, now in release. The New York Times will offer application that lets people view its...
View ArticleStudy: Online TV show ads OK
AdAge.com reports a study that says internet users find advertising to be a reasonable price of admission for free video online content, but ads in TV shows and movies were viewed as more tolerable...
View ArticleDigital tips, motivation to learn them
Craig Stolz of Web2.OhReally recounts lessons learned during his first year as a blogger. The former Washington Post staffer's top two: Blogging is as valuable to the writer as the reader and titles...
View ArticleTimes Co. fights for its edge
Putting more skin in the digital game, competing against Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal and navigating rough waters with his board are among the topics NYT Publisher and Chairman Arthur...
View ArticleWhat I say vs. what I do
Four in five newspaper editors contacted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism view their organization's website and its print edition as a single integrated product tailored to different...
View ArticleSign of the times?
At the Unity 2008 convention of journalists in Chicago this week, a session called "How to get a Media Grant" drew a standing-room-only crowd of nearly 300 journalists, made up of 20somethings to...
View ArticleWho will do serious journalism?
That question is at the heart of many journalists' angst over the disruption of the industry's business model. Dan Gillmor at the Center for Citizen Media proposes one possible answer - he emphasizes...
View ArticlePass the laptop, hon. I want to read the funnies.
Newspaper online readership grew by 12.2 percent in the second quarter of 2008 as compared with a year earlier, with an average 66.4 million unique visitors getting newspaper content via the internet...
View ArticleOur nasty little (email) habit worsens
People are checking email more often, and in stranger places, AOL's fourth annual Email Addiction Survey shows. One in 5 respondents admit checking more than 10 times a day and 59 percent confess to...
View ArticleHave you filed that atomic unit of journalism yet?
At a meeting of the Knight Commission on Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy in Aspen, Colo., Google's Marissa Mayer challenged journalists to re-think how they view their work in a digital...
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