Newspapers, and to some extent television, have been struggling as viewers and readers drop. Yet most of the news content produced in the United States comes to us from traditional media supported by advertising. So even as traditional media struggles to maintain a shrinking business model, the hunger for content remains. People want to read [...]
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News Monitoring: A New Business Model for Newspapers?
Posted on May 21 , 2009 in Communication & Journalism & Measurement & Media
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Newspapers Struggle To Climb Out of the Tar Pit
Posted on Apr 02 , 2009 in Journalism & PR Tech & Thoughts
I received an email yesterday asking if my Tweet about Media USA dropping the AP Wire was an April Fools joke. It seems an AP editor in Texas was upset over the news that a media company was dropping the wire service. I had no reason not to believe the news: it was posted at [...]
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Press Release Embargoes: Sure, Why the Hell Not?
Posted on Dec 17 , 2008 in Communication & Journalism & Media Relations & PR & Strategy & Thoughts
Okay, I’ll bite on the subject of PR Embargoes, since it seems all my peers have also weighed in: if you don’t want the news out there, keep your trap shut. I’ve never seen a journalist actually keep an embargo to themselves, and besides, the only reason to stick it out there is to play [...]