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?
The Fight for New Media: Hulu and Boxee
For the past few months I have been trying to find a way to eliminate the cable bill. I discovered my family really only watches the local networks and a few cable channels. One solution would be to go with digital television. That would have provided the network programming, but would have cut out the [...]
The Perfect Storm
11 Jan 2008 at 23:44
Michael Sommermeyer
Communication, Crisis Management, Journalism, Measurement, Media, Thoughts
I’m spinning downward and it seems like I can’t keep up. The phone’s ringing, I’m on the cellphone, and the phone keeps ringing. I try and answer the questions faster, and the call waiting rings in another call on the cell. Then the desk phone rings again and it goes to voicemail. By the time [...]