yelvington.com: What newsrooms should learn from Kodak
Friday, 13 January 2012, 10:46
Steve Yelvington: “So Kodak, the company that invented amateur photography in the 19th century and invented digital photography in the 20th, is on the ropes. There are obvious lessons for newspapers and newsrooms. Here are a few of them….”
Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of the long goodbye: Kodak’s, Sears’, and newspapers’
Friday, 13 January 2012, 10:44
Ken Doctor: on digitally disrupted companies’ “long goodbye”: “data shows 44 percent less newsprint usage (and about 75-80 percent of all newsprint usage is attributed to newspapers) over the past four years, according to The Reel Time Report. … I’…
Economist: Online newspapers in India: Papering over the cracks
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 11:34
“The strength of India’s print press is, however, in part down to the weakness of its online offerings. This is hardly surprising. For all the country’s vaunted IT prowess, only 6.9% of Indians regularly surf the web. Apart from a smattering of web-exc…
TheMediaBriefing: The new wave of digital media CEOs taking over old media companies
Monday, 7 November 2011, 11:56
Peter Kirwan: “We’re now starting to witness a long overdue exit for [media industry] chief executives of the Baby Boom generation. … We’re also witnessing the rise of a new generation of managers who got their big breaks in the online world from…
New York Times: 2 Long Island Weeklies Wonder About Spike in Sales
Friday, 30 September 2011, 20:04
“[The Suffolk Times and The Riverhead News-Review], which originally printed a combined 8,620 copies for newsstand sales, had to print 5,500 more to keep up with the demand, which seemed to come almost entirely from two customers buying up every availa…
AP Enterprise: UK tabloid paid spies for scoops
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 17:04
“Interviews with three more former journalists and published accounts suggest that [the News of the World] engaged in a pattern of payoffs aimed at rival newspaper employees. … Although accusations that the paper hacked into phones and corrupted poli…
Mashable: Why Burberry Is Now as Much a Media Company as a Fashion Company
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:31
"Burberry staged a 'Tweetwalk' earlier this week during which the London-based fashion house premiered every look on Twitter moments before the models hit the runway. … Part of the initiative’s success was driven by a series of “Tw…
The Cutline: The New Yorker publishes its first standalone e-book, ‘After 9/11′
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 17:11
"The New Yorker has ventured into e-books with "After 9/11," a collection of articles on the terrorist attacks and their aftermath that have appeared in the weekly magazine."
New York Times: A Magazine Bets on Readers Playing Tag
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 12:16
"The Condé Nast magazine [Glamour] is hoping that readers will use their cellphones to connect to additional digital content through mobile codes. … Inside the issue, they can point their phones at [Facebook] logos to learn about discounts, giv…
Press Gazette: ‘UK media receives more state aid than France and Italy’
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 11:08
"A study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) claimed that in 2008 the UK press received £594m of indirect support in the form of VAT-exemptions for copy and subscription sales in the UK. And it also suggests that the gover…
New Media Age: new media age goes online only
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 19:39
"Over the coming months we’ll be introducing a number of digital services to subscribers, including a subscriber-only email service, a revamped mobile site and an iPad app."
Newspaper map
Monday, 16 May 2011, 08:30
Very impressive: "all online newspapers in the world" on one Google Map, by Great Name of Gothenburg, Sweden.
AllThingsD: Fortune Keeps Apple Story Off Web, On iPad and Kindle
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 12:05
"In the past, Fortune would have published the Apple story online last Thursday, at the same time the magazine was showing up on newsstands and in mailboxes. Instead, the magazine teased the piece with a post from Fortune.com Apple blogger Philip …
FT.com: Websites blur line between telling and selling
Saturday, 30 April 2011, 13:05
David Gelles quotes Natalie Massenet of Net-a-Porter: “In the next five years, media companies are going to become retailers and retailers are going to become media companies,” said Ms Massenet, "It’s inevitable."
