Posts filed under “online media”
News organizations need to rethink staff resources in order to promote innovation
It’s a simple question: What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for innovation? And it’s a simple answer: News organizations should stop pretending like it’s the pre-Internet days. Most news organizations are still legacy-first. Newspapers still care more about the print edition than the Web edition. Beats are still centered [...]
Is the mainstream media overrun by a toxic culture?
Amy Gahran has a fantastic blog post about a possible toxic culture forming at many journalism organizations and within the field of journalism. I highly recommend you read Amy’s post and think about it. What she is basically saying is that many journalists are overcome by hubris or a journalistic arrogance, as Sam Zell put [...]
Interview with an enthusiastic adopter, Paula Froke
Paula Froke has jumped headfirst into the world of online and multimedia journalism with her upstart blog, Paula’s Adventures in Multimedia. While she may not have been born a digital native, she has quickly become an enthusiastic adopter. And as the Deputy National Editor for the AP, she is a manager, not a content producer. [...]
Written content is still my favorite online
These are going to be some dangerous confessions from a new media guy. While we should try to make cool, new features, we should always keep an eye on what is useful. Written content is immensely useful. It can be viewed in a variety of formats, even mobile, and when written well, it delivers a [...]
Huffington should have more traffic than Drudge
No one should be shocked that The Huffington Post had better comscore and Nielsen Online numbers than the Drudge Report in February. February 2008 monthly unique visitors: Nielsen Online Huffington Post: 3.7 million Drudge Report: 3.4 million comScore Huffington Post: 2.3 million Drudge Report: 1.6 million It has nothing to do with liberal vs. conservative [...]
Twitter can drive traffic
If you’re on the fence about signing up for Twitter, know this: Twitter can drive traffic to your site. This blog is less than a year old. I’m 23 years old — hardly an established brand or identity. That’s why I only have a little more than 100 people following me on Twitter. But Twitter [...]
Newspapers, it’s time to panic
“There is a time when panic is the appropriate response.” – Eugene Kleiner of KPCB. It’s about high time that journalists and newspapers start panicking. At least panic will lead to disruption, and often panic is the only way to forge lasting change. Too many journalists think that the Web has just brought on a [...]
NIN tries a radically new (RIAA-less) distribution model
Trent Reznor rejoiced when his contract with a major label lapsed. He felt he could finally make new kinds of music and make music for himself and his fans — not just music that his labeled wanted. Nine Inch Nails’ latest album Ghosts I-IV embodies the bands newfound freedom. The album, from a popular industrial [...]