Month: October 2006

There are two people who have more knowledge than anyone else about how to revive the newspaper industry, and one of them is iMedia Joint Principal Jim Chisholm. As co-chairman and co-moderator of the 14th annual Beyond the Printed Word conference next…

“The most imporant thing to watch,” Mr. Mulally said, “is do the leaders have a view that’s different than the way’s it’s being done today. Because if they don’t, we are surely not going to get anywhere.” Alan R. Mulally, a former…

I criticized the American Press Institute‘s Newspaper Next project last month for wasting more than US$2 million and a year producing a “blueprint” to “transform the industry” that in reality turned out to be little more than advice that publishers should think…

What will be the future roles of newsstands, news agents, archives, and newsrooms?

I’ll be traveling during most of November, and I look forward to seeing friends and business acquaintances on these date and cities: Vienna, November 8-12, where I’ll be co-chairing & co-moderating Ifra’s 14th annual Beyond the Printed Word world electronic publishing conference…

Why I attended the New England New Media Association conference rather than ONA or AOPUK. Plus why NAA total readership numbers don’t add up.

It is ridiculous that most media companies’ entertainment or lifestyle guide sites aren’t useful from mobile phones.

Why operate different sites for each demographic when you can instead operate one that matches each user’s own demographic?

Today in Ad Age, Steve Rubell of Edelman’s Me2Revolution public relations practice and Micropersuation, takes newspapers to task for not adopting ‘Web 2.0’ collaboratation techniques. To thrive in the future, the newspaper will need to use the web to turn itself into…