Category Archives: Journalism
Google chief economist on newspaper economics
Hal Varian does not have the first clue.
Not every journalist can do good blogging
I really like Felix Salmon’s piece.
Agree.
What Arianna Huffington said at the FTC Workshop on Journalism & The Internet
Danny Sullivan:
Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post.
Jokes her great grandmother says never bet on a company that takes itself out of Google.
Desperate times lead to desperate metaphors. .. and revenue modelos … and require better journalism than we’ve had.
Her view is hybrid media would be best of online media with transparency and speed [...]
Celebrities using Twitter (a.k.a. “Twillionaires”) can cut out the press from their PR requirements.
Stephen Fry:
Like with the printing press, Twitter [has] changed the situation. People like me, Twillionaires, we can cut out the press from our PR requirements. It used to be a pact with the devil. You wanted to inform the press about a new film and they said they will interview you, but only if they [...]
Here we have a Wall Street Journal columnist whose firm is taking his newspaper columns fresh off the press and running to any company connected to the column’s subject of the week, trying to get them to sign up with said firm—led by the columnist himself!—for PR work.
How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients
Cut yourself off from links, behind pay walls, and you cut yourself off from the internet and its real value.
“Putting content behind a wall cuts it off from search and links; they cut off your Googlejuice.”
Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works.
“A better approach is to have a general agreement among community members to treat others’ content, business and ideas with the same respect you would want them to treat yours.”
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