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Tidings are not always glad
There’s a chorus of sorts at this holiday season bringing tidings of things to come. The theme of these messages is that newspapers, TV stations and magazines are not doing enough to save themselves by radically rethinking their businesses. Slate media critic Jack Shafer perhaps makes the argument most poignantly in the “The Digital Slay-Ride.…
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Improving but not reinventing
From the Bivings Group’s new look at “The User of the Internet by America’s Newspapers.” As we look at the current state of the American newspaper industry, it appears that improving websites is a crucial component for newspapers to weather the current economic downturn and continued consumer shift towards online news and classified ads. This…
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Pragmatically positive predictions for 2009
This month’s Carnival of Journalism assignment is tough. Dave “Digidave” Cohn of Spot.Us suggested we make “New Media Predictions for 2009” and that we might be even so bold as to try to make positive New Media predictions. Now that’s an assignment in the face of what is shaping up to be the worst year…