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Whoa. Print ad dollars down 47% since 2006
Over the past four years, print advertising revenue has plummeted by more than 47 percent, to $24 billion from $47 billion. via gigaom.com Filed under: Gravity Medium
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CS Monitor leadership gets it
the key to building and keeping traffic is far more prosaic than multimedia and sharing buttons. It rests on overcoming a huge cultural barrier: evolving a serious, experienced, thoughtful newsroom...
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Pew: Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future
By 2020, innovative forms of online cooperation will result in significantly more efficient and responsive governments, business, non-profits, and other mainstream institutions. via pewinternet.org...
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Transformation of books: 'The Elements' for iPad
via touchpress.com We’ve heard about interactive textbooks for years, but we’ve never seen it. Not even on the Kindle, which has some nice features, but it’s not there yet. But this book — The...
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A PBS revolution in the making?
A new blog and Twitter feed has appeared. And no, I’m not writing it. Called Revolution PBS and @RevolutionPBS on Twitter, the writing so far calls for a radical reorganization of the broadcast assets...
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Headed to CPB. Headed for community?
I’m headed to the CPB today for an all-day meeting tomorrow (Thu, Apr 15) at the mother ship, hosted and arranged by Rob Bole (aka @rbole). Up for discussion amongst a small group of public media tech...
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History Channel: Oh, SNAP!
I’ve been known to rag on PBS programming at times for being boring or uncompelling, but some of the cable channels out there are guilty of something worse: manipulating the public and programming...
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More on the Revolution
Upon arriving in Washington, DC this week conversation with my public media colleagues immediately turned to the new Revolution PBS blog. Two questions came up: “Are you behind it?” and “Then who is?”...
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Why RevolutionPBS should be engaged, not dismissed
1. Treat insularity as a weakness. If you don’t seriously consider your opponents’ best arguments, you’ll be unprepared to answer them. If you don’t engage people whose premises differ from yours,...
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Why Mobile DTV is DOA
This week I’ve been enjoying a private e-mail exchange with someone working in the Mobile DTV technology space. And since I’ve invested some time into shaping my thoughts, I wanted to include everyone...
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Leaving KETC: It Was Just One of Those Things
Newsflash: I’m no longer working for KETC in St. Louis. Following a quick 8 weeks in the shadow of the Gateway Arch, I’m left humming one of Ella Fitzgerald’s signature Cole Porter songs:...
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Shales on 'Need to Know': Blech!
A couple days ago TV critic Tom Shales participated in an online chat with Washington Post readers in which he bantered about the Betty White appearance on Saturday Night Live last week and other...
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How to fix Twitter's trending topics? Curation
So the web was abuzz yesterday over some articles focused on Twitter’s “trending topics” feature, in which the most popular words, phrases, hashtags and such are automatically listed in your sidebar,...
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When a PBS journalist attacks
NOTE: Updates added at the bottom of the post. Late last week the host of a major PBS program took aim, in a pseudo-blog-post, at NYU journalism professor and innovator Jay Rosen because Rosen said he...
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Closed vs. Open: Why public media struggles with new media
Public broadcasting has always had trouble engaging in the new media world. Now NYU professor Jay Rosen has come up with an explanation that sheds light on media culture problems I’ve seen and...
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Digital media reaches a 'tipping point'
Digital media consumption has reached a tipping point; more average consumers are discovering all sorts of cool ways to get their media fix. And with radio’s final bastion – the car – quickly being...
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Parting (cannon) shot at WNET
Wow. Just wow. When WNET’s Sam Toperoff retires, he really retires. Something tells me CEO Shapiro is pissed. A brief excerpt of Toperoff’s full goodbye letter: On my commutes to work on the E and F...
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NPR CEO on towers, revenue and news collaboration
NPR CEO Vivian Schiller appeared at the All Things D conference this week and made some waves. I know John Sutton noticed something she said and didn’t like it. And I was puzzled by it. But let’s be...
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NPR working on fantastic new digital experiences
I’ve loved working in public media, but I gotta say there’s a lot of downtrodden and morose people out there just barely hanging on in this industry as it (and all media) undergoes tremendous changes....
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A response to the big Radio Survivor piece on NPR liberalism
I love how other people’s blog posts can get me going. The latest was the widely-ready Radio Survivor piece called Radio’s Fall – Part Two: NPR’s ‘Liberal’ Identity Crisis and it is an awesome read....
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