The following is a copy of an essay I wrote that appears in Charting the Course for Newspapers, a strategy report issued last month by the World Association of Newspapers/Ifra’s Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project. In addition to reporting the results of an aggregate survey about how of 653 newspapers worldwide are coping with [...]
Calculations from Nielsen data show that major U.S. newspapers’ daily online circulation is lower than monthly unique figures indicate and that the percentage of online readership varies greatly among those papers.
What a few others and I predicted about U.S. newspapers is becoming true.
Last week, I published a ClickZ.com column about how local news stories aren’t as valuable to people as most journalists presume. Many teams of journalists have created news sites that provide only local news and they have been surprised that few people will pay anything for that news. Yet I ‘buried the lede’ in that [...]
What New Media (or, more precisely termed, Individuated Media) are; what makes them different from Mass Media; and why they will succeed Mass Media during this century.
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Speaking Engagement
Dare to DRM?, Publishing Business & Conference Expo, New York City, March 8, 2010.
Business of Emerging Media: Research and Practices, East-Asia Research Institute of Media Management and Transformation Center, School of Journalism and Communications, Tsinghua University, Beijing, April 21-23, 2010.
The MOB (Media Online Business) Conference, New York City, May 6-7, 2010.
Media Development Loan Fund Media Forum 2010, Bratislava, Slovakia, May 13-14, 2010.
Recent Engagements
Essentials of Managing Newspaper Convergence, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, August 3-7. Digital Entrepreneur Bootcamp, Knight Digital Media Center, Los Angeles, May 18-22, 2009
Mail & Guardian Strategic Retreat, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 12-15, 2009
The Art of Storytelling Workshop, Johnson & Johnson Beauty Care Story Laboratory, San Francisco, March 4-6, 2009
Media Development Loan Fund Designshop, Podgorica, Montenegro, November 19-24, 2008
University Courses
New Media Business, Spring 2010 Semester, S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Coming Conferences of Note
Publishing Business Conference & Expo, New York City, March 8-10, 2010.
Monetizing Online Media, New York City, May 6-7, 2010.
4th Annual Individuated News conference, Denver, Colorado, June 21-23, 2010.
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