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- Can Yahoo Out-"Shine" Glam and iVillage?
- "April is orgasm month!" proclaim bloggers Em and Lo in one today's posts on Yahoo's new women's site, Shine. "Why? Because we say so." Shine looks to have jumped out of the gate at high speed after hiring eight experienced editors to create and manage the site's...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Google, MySpace, Facebook Lead New Media Globalization
- It's often tempting for those of who've long been active on the Web to think that the growth of new media is still being fueled by the geeks and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley. But the truth is that there is an apparently unquenchable demand for news from...
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- How The Smoking Gun Exposed a Fraud
- In the wake of the L.A. Times scandal, I asked Bill Bastone, Editor of The Smoking Gun, how he and his colleagues came up with their scoop. Here is his reply: "A couple of the FBI documents were posted, as part of a big...
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Disgrace at the L.A. Times, Courtesy of The Smoking Gun
- Once an elite, respected newspaper, the Los Angeles Times is now simply the latest old media company brought to its knees and humiliated by a far younger and less honored online service, The Smoking Gun. Unless you've spent the past 48 hours in a cave at Tora...
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Zell Unloads on Newspaper Employees, Might Unload Newsday
- Watching the newspaper business self-destruct these past few years has been painful, like witnessing a horrible, slow-motion train crash. As one who's always liked newspapers -- and subscribed to lots of them -- I'm gonna miss them when they're gone. Even now, I can't help but notice...
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Traditional Media Losing Touch
- Inside the voluminous State of the News Media, 2008, report, mentioned here recently, is a fascinating sub-section that captures the essence of why Internet news sites are supplanting "old media" platforms from a content perspective. And, while media execs talk endlessly about the production and distribution advantages...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Glam is Number One Among Women Online
- Glam Media, the fast-growing online advertising network of about 450 websites geared to women, has cracked the list of the web's top twenty properties, according to comScore. More importantly, Glam now is almost twice as big as NBC Universal's iVillage, the leading female-oriented web property for the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Victory for Mixi's Users in IP Dispute
- As reported here last week, Japan's huge social networking site, Mixi, had announced plans to assert its control over its users' intellectual property rights. But, after a broad rebellion by Mixi users, the company has backtracked. Today, the company has a new announcement on the site that...
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Is Yahoo Getting its Buzz Back?
- When Yahoo beta-launched its new Buzz feature recently, I was among its many skeptics. There were already so many similar services -- Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us Newsvine, Newser, Helium, and another beta entry, Mixx-- that the market seemed more than saturated. But, after only a...
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Changing Newsrooms from Within
- The fifth annual State of the News Media report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, says that "In the last year, the trends reshaping journalism didn’t just quicken, they seemed to be nearing a pivot point." The report states that "the biggest problem facing traditional...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Mixi IP Fight: Who Owns Social Media Content?
- Over the past week, a battle has been raging inside Mixi, Japan's giant social networking site SNS, over who controls the intellectual property rights of its user-generated content. Mixi has over 13 million users who post on everything from shopping tips and relationship advice to political discussions...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Did NPR's Stern Fire Himself or What?
- One unusual aspect of last week's management change at National Public Radio is that the man who fired CEO Ken Stern and has replaced him an Interim CEO, Dennis Haarsager, is a veteran blogger and a good one at that. So, when Haarsager promised on Friday that...
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- How NPR's CEO was Dumped
- Insiders say that National Public Radio NPR's CEO Ken Stern lost his job yesterday in a shockingly abrupt fashion. My sources say that Board Chair Dennis Haarsager simply walked into Stern's office, fired him and told him that it was time for him "to leave the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Innovation from the Bottom Up at Google
- As noted in this space recently, there are tools media company managers can use to encourage entrepreneurial efforts inside their departments. You need look no further than the most successful corporate innovator on the planet -- Google -- for an idea how to accomplish this. ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Bloggers with Attitude... Inside Wal-Mart?
- Okay, it was one thing when the nation's largest retailer, a behemoth many of us loved to hate, started going green. But you had to give Wal-Mart credit when the company committed to achieving three huge sustainability goals: Converting 100 percent of its stores...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Old Media News: From Bad to Worse
- It's official: McClatchy's acquisition of Knight-Ridder was a disaster. Until about 20 months ago, the name Knight-Ridder represented one of the most respected brands in the history of American journalism. It owned and operated the second largest newspaper chain in the U.S. after Gannett and was widely...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- The Times and the Post Struggle to Adapt
- Even the venerable Washington Post and New York Times, -- family-owned flagship newspapers at the pinnacle of the U.S. media industry, are starting to exhibit the inevitable stresses inherent in adapting to the new age of digital media. The Post announced reductions in quarterly and annual earnings....
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Reed Elsevier Print Mags Going Digital
- Last week the trade publishing company, Reed Elsevier, put dozens of its magazines, including Variety and Publishers Weekly, up for sale, sending shock waves through the jittery print advertising market. And, in what is the perfect metaphor for the larger transition the media industry is experiencing, Reed...
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Smells like Entrepreneurial Spirit
- So, you're an executive inside a media company and you wonder how to encourage the people who report to you "to think like entrepreneurs." Your success as a manager will be at least partly judged by how many good ideas your department or division delivers upstairs. I've...
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Blogging as a Business Model
- It's always nice to see an old friend succeed, especially when he does so by turning conventional wisdom on its head. And that's exactly what Josh Micah Marshall did last week by winning a prestigious George Polk Award for his Talking Points Memo blog site TPM. Eight...
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
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