Media
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Online Publications Charge for the Words, Not for the Paper
Offering free content at readers’ fingertips, many print publications’ websites have become their own worst enemies. In order to prevent stealing revenue and readership from themselves, some of these organizations have chosen to charge for access to online content and…
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Random Media Notes
Financial Times warns readers: ‘don’t email our articles.’ A 26 year old former fact checker is the new managing editor of The New Yorker. Wall Street Journal claims a P.R. executive’s column is not a conflict of interest, despite the…
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Why Are Artists Poor?
It’s a question close to our hearts, and Andrew Keen — who has argued, in his own words, that “the Internet is killing our culture and undermining the livelihood of cultural producers” — addresses it in a Telegraph UK article…
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Random Media Notes
The New York Times’ latest revenue stream? Seminars taught by columnists. “Elle Offers Internship to Homeless Girl” (via Mediabistro) Sony releases latest Kindle rival, the Reader Daily Edition. “Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teens” New Vibe gets new editor-in-chief.
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Go on! Embed me!
Sharing is caring on the Internet. The idea is that magazines and newspapers, struggling for survival, want one thing: more distribution. So why not make it easier for bloggers and writers to embed posts on their sites, rather than having…
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Random Media Notes
Wikipedia’s “freewheeling ethos is about to be curbed.” Journalists hoping to embed with U.S. forces in Afghanistan may be screened by a Washington P.R. firm hired by the Pentagon. R.I.P. GeoCities. HBO is considering a show based on “Savage Love”…
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Random Media Notes
JPMorgan is now nation’s number one publisher. Outed blogger says Google failed to protect her right to privacy. Slate introduces new news aggregrator, “The Slatest.” Glenn Beck loses even more advertisers. Jay-Z rips Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh.
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Lazy Journalists Love Pictures of Abandoned Stuff
About a week ago Vice published an amusing article by Thomas Morton about what happens when journalists from outside Detroit come into the city to do a story: they cover their preconceptions, shoot “ruin porn,” and miss actual stories right under…
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Salon Lays Off 20% of Staff to Become “True Web Publication”
Salon laid off six of its 29 editorial staffers last week in an effort–according to CEO Richard Gingras’ statement to Gawker–to become “more of a true Web publication.” According to Gingras, the layoffs are tied to a fall relaunch of…
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Rosenberg on Y Combinator’s Call for Journalism Startups
Yesterday I interviewed Scott Rosenberg at length for the Rumpus, and we spent a lot of time talking about the news industry and how it relates to online publishing, with special reference to blogging. At one point he said (to…
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Random Media Notes Update
“Jericho Scott was the 9-year-old who briefly became a media sensation when he was deemed ‘too good’ to pitch in his youth league. A year later, Craig Fehrman checks in on Jericho and finds that everyone got the story wrong.”…
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Random Media Notes
Sam Zell is preparing to abandon the Chicago Tribune. Wall Street Journal discrimination lawsuit proceeds to trial. Mashable founder Pete Cashmore says “Social media is the media.” MySpace acquires music sharing service iLike. “Travelers passing through London’s Heathrow Airport this…