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What I Learned at the M.O.B. Conference, NavigateNewMedia.com, July 23, 2010.

新媒体产品日新月异 新闻工作者对“新闻”本质重新定义, ITxinwhen.com, Singapore, July 17, 2010.

Customize Newspapers, The Straits Times, Singapore, July 15, 2010.


The Great Media Revolution, Razor TV, Singapore, July 14, 2010.

In Online Media, Consumer Is King, Wired News, June 29, 2010.

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The speaker of the Singapore Press Holdings Foundation annual Media Lecture, Drama Centre, National Library, Singapore, July 14, 2010.

A speaker at the Fourth Annual Individuated News Conference, Denver, June 23, 2010.

The co-chair and co-moderator of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication's Monetizing Online Business Conference, New York City, June 24-25, 2010.

The speaker of the Twelfth Annual Pearl A. and Albert E. Mall Annual Lecture, Binghamton University School of Education, Binghamton, New York, May 26, 2010.

A speaker and co-moderator at the Media Development Loan Fund Biennial Media Forum, Bratislava, Slovakia, May 14-15, 2010.

A speaker at the East Asian Institute for Media Management and Transformation Center's International Conference on Business of Emerging Media, Tsinghua University, Beijing, April 21-22, 2010.

A panelist about Digital Rights Management, Publishing Business Conference & Expo, New York City, March 8, 2010.

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An American Daily Newspaper Commits Suicide

There really is no other way to headline this. I am watching a once great newspaper commit suicide.

The San Francisco Chronicle‘s weekday circulation recently dropped 16.4 percent. The Chronicle’s decided to cut 100 of its 400 remaining newsroom jobs.

When a product’s popularity drops that much in a single year, in what other industry would executives decide to continue producing the same product but with even less substance to it?

I’ve seen newspapers shoot themselves in the foot, but never before in the head.

[By the way, a few days ago I wrote about Jon Fine's speculation that The San Francisco Chronicle should stop printing and distribute news online only. I suggested that a much more likely cost-cutting measure would be for that newspaper to outsource its printing. What I didn't know at the time (and I suspect Fine didn't either) is that the Chronicle has already signed an agreement to outsource its production to a third-party printer. Alan Mutter's blog brought it to my attention. The outsourcing deal will cost the jobs of 230 unionized press operators when the new plant opens in 2009. When this outsourcing contract was signed, I wonder how large a newspaper the Chronicle's executives thought they'd be producing in 2009?]

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