Another Warning Shot To Newspapers: Don’t Give Up on Covering the News

Buried in the annual Pulitzer Prize ritual last week was the little-noticed fact that no award was given in the “Breaking News” category. None of the 37 entries were deemed exceptional enough. Last year’s winner, the Seattle Times, used multiple platforms to report the breaking news about the tragic killings of four policemen. The Pulitzer [...]

Good News For Internet Content: Web Advertising Resumes Rapid Growth

Online Advertising got back on track in 2010, showing 15% growth to $26 billion. The industry shot past newspapers to become the second largest ad medium, behind only television. Of equal significance is the fact that display advertising grew as a percentage of online, taking share from search, which remains the largest form of digital [...]

Bloomberg Businessweek IPad App Blasts Out of the Gate and WORKS!

The Bloomberg Businessweek + app, which launched today, starts off by showing me a fever bar that tells me how much of the issue is loaded. Feels like a common courtesy, but so many apps, including native apps like THE DAILY, do NOT tell you where you stand in the loading process. And we all [...]

Why Every Company and Industry Should Be Concerned About Preserving Quality Journalism: A Plea to Foundations

The Knight Foundation has issued a call to all philanthropic foundations to seriously consider funding efforts to preserver quality journalism and the development of media skills in the new digital frontier. The goal is to get a wider range of funders involved in supporting media and journalism projects, which Knight believes can increase the number [...]

Small Merchants Seem More Optimistic and Have Embraced Facebook

Small and Local businesses are 5.1% more confident about their business climate than last year, according the The MerchantCircle Merchant Confidence Index (MCI), reports the Center for Media Research. The confidence comes from expectations from more than half of those surveyed (57%) that sales will be improving over the next three months. In an interesting [...]

Regional Newspapers Follow the NYTimes: Building Paywalls

The Tulsa (Oklahoma) World kicked off it’s pay wall yesterday, and according to Media Newsletter NewsInc. and the web site BayCitizen.org, the San Francisco Chronicle may not be far behind. The Tulsa paper has installed a similar wall to the NY Times, with the public getting ten stories a month for free before staring at [...]