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Read moreThe End of the Road
The phone rang at 6am yesterday morning and it was my mother in Miami. I knew it was bad news. “Your father is choking”, she said, “I think he is dying”. I knew this call would be coming for...
Read moreThe First Internet
The newspaper business is in trouble. But it's not becasue newspapers don't have value. But I am not so sure that the 'value' is in the news. Maybe it's something else.
Read moreWhere Are Your Priorities?
1959 Caddy. But does democracy hinge on this? Washington, it seems, is not prepared to let the auto industry and Detroit go down the tubes. The bail out is going to happen, even if the White House has to...
Read moreThe Privileged Few
The J School is the building on the left…. I graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. That was a long time ago. We were a class filled with ambition, fired by Woodward and Bernstein (or...
Read moreThe Best of Times, The Worst of Times
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI&hl=en&fs=1] A few years ago, Robin Sloan, who is now CTO at Current produced this incredibly prescient video. It still holds true. As the narrator says, and not to be too trite, ‘it is the best of times, it...
Read moreJury Duty You Can’t Avoid
School was never like this….. Yesterday, I was on Jury Duty. Jury Duty at CUNY. That’s City University of New York’s graduate school of journalism. The school is fortunate enough to have Prof. Jeff Jarvis teaching a course there...
Read moreA House of Cards
But at the end of the day, someone has to make the original content and be paid for it. Until now, that someone has been newspapers. But I think we are looking at the end of newspapers, and that is a...
Read moreWomen and Children First
And we had 70% market share…. The Day of Reckoning has arrived. Or at least it has started. Sam Zell’s Tribune Company goes Chapter 11. The New York Times is so close to the edge that it has to...
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