by David | Sep 25, 2014 | Digital Migration, new media, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Mediapart in France is profitable because it gives readers what they are willing to pay for. Imagine that. Quick hit here for my students, who are increasingly upset about their job prospects after graduation. I shared an article from Neiman about the upheaval in the...
by David | Apr 1, 2014 | Digital Migration
Experiments to see if there is an audience for high-value content Pundits have long said “Let a thousand flowers bloom.” Well, this is one of them. A group of journalists down at the Folha de Sao Paolo (and excuse me for not putting in the various tildes...
by David | Mar 26, 2014 | Digital Migration, journalism
When clicks drive coverage, what happens to hard news stories? Are we doomed to “hamster wheel journalism”? Is the future only listicles and kitteh pictures? There’s an interesting discussion shaping up – one that I’ve seen coming for...
by David | Oct 7, 2013 | Digital Migration, journalism
How journalists can build their own news/publishing business I was asked by my students if there were ways that they could publish their stories, videos and audios, without having to give up control to media companies that really aren’t all that interested in...
by David | Sep 3, 2013 | Digital Migration, journalism
…back from summer vacation, and leaping into the school year. Well, trying to leap, anyway. I mentioned this development in digital news to my journalism classes at Annenberg, and figured I might want to expand a bit more on it, and provide some links to related...
by David | Jul 17, 2013 | Digital Migration
Some times, there is a bit of a lag between the loading of the headline on HuffPo and the photo. Not always as humorous as it is here.