In case you were wondering it wasn't the internet and free content that killed newspapers it was corporations. Well that's what Michael Moore has been telling people in Toronto as he promotes his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story'. He spent some time talking about the US newspaper business...
Chris Anderson, the Wired editor-in-chief and author of 'Free', has had it with newspapers. No seriously, he's through. He doesn't care. And journalism? And Media? Kids those words are so passe. Anderson, who struck it big with his book 'The Long Tail' and wants everything to...
News Corporation's new digital boss Jonathan Miller has been banging the paid content drum. His spin was "content bundling" kind of like the charging equivalent of pick 'n' mix. Speaking in New York at the Hollywood Reporter's Digital Power event, Miller said News Corp wants...
Don't know much about former MSNBC and now Fox personality Tucker Carlson, but he launching a site called DailyCaller.com to take on the HuffingtonPost.com and Tina Brown's Daily Beast. Report earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal that says pundit Carlson will launch a "conservative...
Everyone who works online and has anything to do with publishing should be reading this. A report out today that attempts to map the carnage in publishing and take a guess at the future. Full of good nuggets. With nods to both the Guardian's Emily Bell ("We are on the brink of two years of carnage...
The fate of the Boston Globe is hanging in the balance this week as the New York Times Company moves towards a deal with unions, but one with journalists is so far out of reach. According to a report in the Washington Post, the New York Times Company has backed off from threats to close the paper temporarily...
The economy and swine flu is bad enough, but while big stories fill the front pages of US newspapers, new figures show that the rate of decline in print circulation has accelerated since last autumn. According to a report in the New York Times, figures out on Monday show a more than 7% drop compared...
Some cracking reviews of the 'State of Play' movie appearing, which has amongst its many plotlines something of the current clash between new and old media, between print and bloggers, about it. It is almost portrayed as print's last stand as the bloggers charge in. It has an apparent credulous...
A few more interesting bits out of the Newspaper Association of America with stories about how badly several newspapers are faring after implementing major changes. I blogged yesterday about what Google CEO Eric Schmidt told executives in San Diego, but Fortune has a story today about how three newspapers...
The irony gods were working double time yesterday. The biggest news day in Detroit for years (GM chairman axed, Chrysler and Fiat and big hoop news) was the day that its two newspapers ended their home delivery service and the web couldn't cope. You can't make stuff like that up. The Gannett...
