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BNET Author Biography: David Weir is a veteran journalist who has worked at Rolling Stone, California, Mother Jones, Business 2.0, SunDance, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, MyWire, 7x7, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, which he cofounded in 1977. He's also been a content executive at KQED, Wired Digital, Salon.com, andExcite@Home. David...; more about David Weir »

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"Spleak"ing out on Sports and Politics: Last month, we covered the deal between Hearst Corp. and Spleak Media Network, the San Francisco-based hybrid publishing startup, whose CelebSpleak attracts a reported 100,000 visitors per day, mostly teen and twenty-something females. Now, Spleak is launching two new offerings -- SportSpleak and VoteSpleak. These two...; Tags: Team, Spleak Media Network, Team Management, Management, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-05-09
In the Newsday Sweepstakes, the Smart Money is on Murdoch: The Clash of the Titans for control of Long Island-based daily Newsday has gotten even more complicated in the past week as Cablevision Systems Corp. upped the ante from the competing $580 million offers by moguls Rubert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman by almost 13 percent to $650 million. ...; Tags: Newsday, Cablevision Systems Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Memo to Editors: Content is Never "Free": A new global survey of editors reveals that the majority believe newspapers will be free in the future. By a large majority -- 86 percent -- of the 704 editors from the U.S., Western Europe, South America, Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East and Asia, these execs also expect their...; Tags: Editor, Osnos, Sales Strategy, PDAs, TVs, Sales Force Management, Cellular Phones, Sales, Handhelds, Hardware, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Can Rolling Stone Keep on Rolling?: I'm having trouble thinking of any industry that has faced more tumult since the arrival of the Internet than the music business. From Napster to the iPod to Zune, and downloads of singles to cellphones, the music labels have had to try to constantly adapt to...; Tags: Advertisement, Magazine, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Should the Ivy League Buy The New York Times?: So, there's the usual Monday morning bad news in the news business (layoffs and buyouts at the McClatchy chain's Charlotte Observer); but there this also a novel idea from The Chronicle of Higher Education. "The time has come for the nation's wealthiest colleges and universities to...; Tags: David Weir; Blog posts 2008-05-05

Does Non-Profit Media Have a Competitive Edge?: Last night, here in New York City, the National Magazine Awards were announced. Among the usual suspects (The New Yorker, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Atlantic, Rolling Stone) were several winners with an alternative business model. The non-profit Mother Jones won the award for general excellence in...; Tags: Media, National Public Radio Inc., Mother Jones, CIR, Corporate Governance, Globalization, Advertising & Promotion, Branding, Government, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Marketing, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Rupert Murdoch's Old Media Buying Spree: Newspapers all over the U.S. may be losing advertising revenue, subscribers, and reporters in droves, but big bad media mogul Rupert Murdoch is on a buying spree. Since completing his takeover of the Wall Street Journal last December, Murdoch now holds two major newspapers (the other being...; Tags: Media, Rupert Murdoch, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-30
How to Market a Young Girl? Ask Disney and Vanity Fair!: Sexy sells, and to the multi-billion-dollar media industry, it doesn't really matter how young the target demographic may be. So it's no surprise that the top story on Yahoo's Buzz the past 24 hours has all the elements: Celebrity, scandal, a famous photographer, a partly naked,...; Tags: Disney Corp., Photograph, Miley, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-29
The Times, The Trib, The Post: Coast to Coast Newspaper Freefall: Guess what. There's starting to be glimmer of hope for some of the top U.S. newspapers, although it's buried in a metric that remains unfamiliar to most execs: time on site. But first, today's industry news is dominated by the huge red tide sweeping through this...; Tags: Newspaper, Web, Channel Management, Marketing, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Why the Financial Times Makes Money as Others Flail: Almost overlooked amidst the flood of red ink flowing from newspaper companies lately, is the remarkable success of The Financial Times (FT), most certainly one of the best business rags in the world. No U.S. newspaper can yet compete with the salmon-colored FT for its overseas...; Tags: Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Hook, Web Site Development, Operational Accounting, Web Technology, Internet, Finance, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Why Jon Stewart's Business Plan is Winning: It's that time of year again, time for the BNET Media Industry Award for the Best Political Report on Television, that is, in the Context of the Best Business Plan. I've been an vocal admirer of Comedy Central's Jon Stewart for several years now, but what he...; Tags: Jon Stewart, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Election '08? Somebody Tell CBS, NBC, and ABC!: It's a Presidential election year, which almost always means good financial news for the television industry. This year is no exception, as the political parties and leading candidates pour hundreds of millions of dollars into high-stakes TV ad campaigns. Meanwhile, where is network TV news in this mix? ...; Tags: NBC, ABC Inc., Network, CBS Broadcasting Inc., CNN, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Team Management, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-23
More Trouble Ahead for The Times, The Journal and McClatchy: Trust me, I don't relish bringing you bad news about the media industry every day, but there's not much else in the current wave of earnings reports, resignations, and rumors of sales to work with. The McClatchy Co.'s CEO, Gary Pruitt, admitted this morning that the big...; Tags: Managing Editor, Yahoo! Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Finance, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Latest Round of Losses at N.Y. Times and Gannett: Newspaper execs from The Big Chill generation might as well be singing "Monday, Monday"* along with The Mamas and the Papas, on their way in to start the workweek these days. Today's pro-forma dose of bad news starts with Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper chain,...; Tags: Tribune Co., Rupert Murdoch, Gannett Co. Inc., Corporate Governance, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Investment, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-21
How Business Wire Morphed the Lowly Press Release: There was a time, not so long ago, that the last place I'd go to find news was a corporate press release. Not any more. The line between a press release and breaking news has blurred in this era of SEO, SEM and Web 2.0. In order...; Tags: Search Engine, Business Wire, Straitis, Robots, RSS, Portals, Search, Emerging Technologies, Internet, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Plain Spleak-ing: What's Next After Hearst Deal?: Yesterday we analyzed the partnership between the giant Hearst Corp. and pipsqueak, Spleak. Today, I asked Spleak's CEO, Morrie Eisenberg to explain his product, which is part chat-bot, part web-widget, and a mashup tool for professional media content and user generated content to co-exist semi-peacefully. "Spleak...; Tags: IM, Hearst Corp., Spleak, Instant Messaging, Business Structures, Internet, Online Communications, Finance, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Behind the Hearst-Spleak Mashup: Mention the Hearst Corp. and it's tempting to think of a fading media empire, out of touch with new media, Web 2.0, etc. After all, this is the company that owns the San Francisco Chronicle, which has been sinking faster than the Titanic after it met its iceberg. ...; Tags: Hearst Corp., Instant Messaging, Investment, IPO, Web 2.0, Internet, Online Communications, Finance, Financial Services, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, etc., Report Steep Losses: The advertising slowdown that has been devastating the newspaper industry has begun to hit magazines as well. But the trends are mixed, with some titles still doing well, despite a down economy. Some of the leading news-weekly and business titles had very bad first quarters, according to...; Tags: Newsweek, Advertisement, BusinessWeek, Magazine, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Blogging Wave Sweeping China: Over the past four years, the blogosphere has been expanding at such a torrid pace that Technorati now estimates that about 120,000 new weblogs are created every day -- roughly one and a half each second. But the great majority of that growth...; Tags: China, Blog, ESWN, Blogging, Internet, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-14
Good Night and Good Luck, CBS: It really was no surprise that rumors of an impending deal between CBS and CNN have resurfaced recently. CBS is said to be discussing outsourcing some of its news-gathering to CNN, and also to share resources on some stories or in some markets. CBS News is...; Tags: CBS Broadcasting Inc., Cable, Outsourcing, TVs, Network Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Home Entertainment, Networking, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-04-12