This is how it’s going to be: Created-for-Web series migrates to Cable Television

Two years ago comedy star Rob Corddry (from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) launched an hysterical web-only comedy series called Childrens Hospital on TheWB.com. Several of Corddry’s pals, including Megan Mullaly, Erinn Hayes, Jason Sudeikis, Ed Helms and others appeared in the series of short episodes that debuted in 2008-2009. It was series of [...]

New examples of Media Getting It: Content Creation and Curation Grow

We are seeing several fresh examples of main stream media beginning to focus on what it has to do to survive and thrive in the future. Every day we find another example of media companies daring to change their model to adapt to the new world the face, and give the consumer a more relevant [...]

Can AOL and Yahoo Save the News?

As newspapers continue to struggle, traditional news-aggregation sites like AOL and Yahoo are planning to produce more original content. Are they the future of journalism? Over the past several months, as many of the traditional pillars of journalism have begun to show severe economic strain, there are new signs of a growing future for original [...]

News Inc.? The Second Coming of Newspapers

Today’s collapse of the Rocky Mountain News has prompted the usual hysterics and hand-wringing over the death of print—but people need to get over the notion that quality news only comes on paper. OK, so now it has begun. The Rocky Mountain News, Denver’s 150-year-old daily newspaper, is shutting its doors tomorrow. I fear this [...]

How Can Newspapers Survive?

Newspapers are still the best-staffed news organizations and remain journalism’s brightest hope—if they can only break their addiction to print. It’s one of my favorite lines in Citizen Kane, the 1941 classic about a newspaper publisher. Kane is responding to his top financial advisor who just pointed out that Kane’s newspaper empire is losing a [...]