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Next Speaking Engagement
Co-Chair/Co-Moderator, the IFra/WAN/FIPP Beyond the Printed Word World Electronic Publishing Conference, Hilton Hotel, Vienna, 9-10 November 2006
Digital Deliverance in the News
More Media, Less News, The Economist, London, 24 August 2006
Can E-Newspapers Save the Industry?, Marketplace Radio, USA, 5 July 2006
But What Will Hobos Use for Blankets? The Future of Print Media in the Twenty First Century, The Cud, Australia, April 2006
How papers need to adapt to for the web, Media Life, 7 March 2006
Investing Insights: Another smart guy dumping newspaper stocks, Business Week, 7 March 2006
News is Expensive Offline, But How Can It Stay Free Online?, Ad Age, New York, 28 February 2006
'One newspaper reader worth up to 100 online users in ad revenues', the Guardian, London, 27 February 2006
'Time to get tough: Managing anonymous reader comments', Online Journalism Review, 26 January 2006
'When Joe Bloggers Take Over the News', American Journalism Review, December/January 2006
'Adding a Price Tag', Press Gazette (UK), 1 December 2006
'Is Yahoo public enemy No. 1 for Big Media?', Online Journalism Review, 5 October 2005
'Browsing the Site, Not Watching the Show', The New York Times, 19 September 2005../NH3.html
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Vin Crosbie
Folio, the trade journal of the magazine industry, called him "the Practical Futurist." Editor & Publisher magazine, the trade journal of the American newspaper industry, devoted the Overview chapter of executive research report Digital Delivery of News: A How-to Guide for Publishers to his work. His speech to the National Association of Broadcasters annual conference last year was one of 24 orations (including speeches by President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, and Senators Hilary Clinton and Barak Obama) selected by a team of speech professors for publication in the reference book Representative American Speeches 2004-2005. For his international consulting, he recently was nominated as among the "new establishment" of online journalism in the United Kingdom.
Vin Crosbie founded the consulting firm of Digital Deliverance LLC in 1996 and has worked full-time for it since. Two years earlier, he was director of content development at Freemark Communications of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the companies credited with inventing free e-mail services (precursors of today's HotMail and GMail). Prior to that, he was director of online partnership at News Corp.'s Internet subsidiary, Delphi Internet Services Corporation – the world's first Internet Service Provider for consumers. Before working in the new-media, Crosbie was an executive with Reuters and the old United Press International, and a newspaper publisher, editor, and reporter. He is the fifth generation of his family to publish daily newspapers.
While working for Digital Deliverance, Crosbie has worked pro bono as the new-media columnist for the International Newspaper Marketing Association's Ideas magazine; contributing editor for the American Press Institute's NewsFuture newsletter; monthly columnist about paid online content for JupiterMedia's ClickZ marketing website; and founding contributor to the Poynter Institute's E-Media Tidbits group weblog. He recently founded Corante's Rebuilding Media group weblog. Crosbie also is the author of the business model chapters of Internet World's Guide to Webcasting and the 4,500-word essay What Newspapers and Their Websites Must Do to Survive, published by the USC/Annenberg School's Online Journalism Review.
He regularly speaks at major media conference worldwide about what news media needs to do in order to survive and profit during the 21st Century. Crosbie keynoted the Seybold Publishing Strategies conference in 2000 and was a co-chairman of the publishing program at the Comdex conferences in Las Vegas during the 1990s. He is co-chairman of this year's Beyond the Printed Word the digital publishing conference being organized this November in Vienna by the World Association of Newspapers, the International Federation of the Periodical Press, and Ifra.
An experienced mountaineer with ascents in the Alps, North America, and Latin America, Crosbie holds a commercial guide certification from the U.S. National Forest Service and taught above-treeline travel and Nordic skiing for the Appalachian Mountain Club's headquarters chapter in Boston. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.
James Tailer
James Tailer is executive vice president and a partner in Digital Deliverance. He joined the firm in 1999 after publishing and then selling the Free Press Group of newspapers in Nashville, Tennessee. He also is president of PublishMail LLC, an e-mail publishing applications company for newspaper (a spin-off of Digital Deliverance's consulting work in e-mail publishing).
During his nearly 30-year career, Tailer has worked in every facet of periodical publishing, including work in newsrooms, pressrooms, advertising sales, and circulation. Much of that time was spent working for the Bloomington (Illinois) Pantograph, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the old United Press International. A New York City native, Tailer is a graduate of the University of Arizona, and lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and son.
