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The LA Times: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by David | Aug 19, 2011 | Digital Migration, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

The eulogies for the newspaper industry are starting to become almost commonplace, as the generation that matured and worked during the Salad Days of the 70s and 80s totters off into the sunset. Mark Heisler, the NBA beat writer at the LA Times, has weighed in with a...

CNN International segment on Murdoch, phone-hacking & tabloid tactics

by David | Aug 7, 2011 | New Marketing, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers, television

The good folks at CNN asked me to appear on Backstory” to talk about the News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal. I tried to oblige them with some insights onto why this kind of scandal keeps happening, and why. You can see the results of the interview...

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