The .01% Solution
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. A. J. Liebling (1904 – 1963) The world of the media used to be a rich man’s playground. It cost a lot of money to buy...
Read moreScott Pelley Is No Fred Friendly !!
Scott Pelley (CBS) accepts the Fred Friendly Journalism Award… Fred Friendly was a friend of mine. He was also my teacher at Columbia University, and later my professional mentor. He launched my career in television and media. So it...
Read moreThe Alzheimer’s Syndrome and The Web
Have we met before??? There’s an old joke: The good thing about Alzheimer’s? You always meet new people. What does this have to do with media on the web? Everything, I think. Up until now, we have always lived...
Read moreWhat’s a Library?
Library under construction – along with a 50 story hotel and condo…. I live across the street from a library… or at least what used to be a library. The Donnell Library on West 53rd Street. Today, it...
Read moreFrom Walmart to Success via Youtube
[gn_media url=”[gn_media url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K20b4eRUKtA”]” We’re spending a lot of time down in Nashville these days A LOT of time. And one of the main things to do while in Nashville is to go the Grand Ole Opry. Now, to be...
Read moreThe Digital Slaves (that would be you)
$0.0 an hour…. with a 100% raise after two years… Want a look a the new ‘digital’ economy and how it works? Here’s an interesting experiment: List the top 10 corporations in the US in 1960. Do...
Read moreJenna Marbles – 1 Billion Views – How Video Changed My Life
[gn_media url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCxzaHC30Ec”] Her name is Jenna Mouray and if you have never heard of her, you are obviously either not spending enough time on YouTube or not reading The New York Times carefully enough. I had never heard of her...
Read moreThe Star Ledger Newspaper Wins 3 TV Emmy Awards, Gets 19 Nominations!
The Newark Star-Ledger is a newspaper. Several years ago, thanks to Jeff Jarvis, we were invited to their offices to talk about taking them into video. Over the course of the next few months, we trained about 15...
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Is Advertising Finished?
Does anyone know what this is? The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism recently revealed that as newspapers transit from print to online digital, ad revenues for online, which it was once hoped would come to supplant ad revenues...
Read moreMichael Wolff on Columbia’s New Dean
I don’t normally reprint other people’s work, but in this case I am going to make an exception. This is worth the read. As a graduate of Columbia Journalism School (’83) and a former teacher there, I am annoyed...
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