Will Video Kill the Blogging Stars?

Video is “in” this season. The New York Times reports that upcoming Fashion Week will include more than the usual “blogger coverage” this year and will expand to include “blogger TV,” too. Dubbed SCTV (Style Coalition Television),...

Are Upgraded Content Farms Replacing Traditional Media?

We’ve talked on this blog earlier about the “digital first” approach as a media survival tactic and how traditional news reporters increasingly find themselves facing cutbacks. Last week, two major announcements had the industry reflecting on the...

Publishers Block the Path to Successful E-Book Sales

How fast can the book industry remake itself? We’re watching it happen before our eyes today, as e-books finally explode from negligible sales to a third of the market. The relentless pace of change is fracturing book publishing and exposing all of its...

Brill and Crovitz Sell Journalism Online to RR Donnelley

The New York Times is the largest news organization so far to use an online subscription service for its content. Smaller news outlets have been experimenting with similar metered models through a company called Journalism Online. Media veterans and entrepreneurs...

Google Search Should and Can Do Better

I was already teaching Internet public relations when Google’s search engine first became popular. In those early days, I could search for the word “job,” and nine of the top-10 results were for a sex act, rather than employment sites. Google quickly...
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