More Salmon From The New York Times
NYÂ Times Video Chief Ann Derry Yesterday, Ann Derry announced that The NY Times was starting to give their reporters iPhones to cover stories in video as well as in text. So far, so good. But this is 2011. Never...
Read moreOut Of The Picture
Definitely don’t move… Margaret Bourke-White was on the cutting edge of a lot of change. She was a woman photographer when there were almost none. She was a war correspondent, photog for Life Magazine, member of Magnum. She traveled...
Read moreA Visit to The Facebook Building
Over there… on the left… Two years ago, we began a very interesting experiment with a major cable provider. We built and ran (and continue to run) a hyper-local TV station which is probably the most cost-effective in the...
Read moreThe Hamas Show
The juxtaposition of two seemingly very disparate articles in the newspaper this morning provide a window into where the whole TV news business is headed.
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...
Read moreBittman-Doe & Dough
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU&hl=en&fs=1] This weekend, having just flown in from London, we got on a Jet Blue flight to Burlington, Vermont, where we spent the weekend at the Mark Bittman / Kelly Doe wedding. Bittman is an old friend of ours,...
Read moreIt Hits The Fan
The New York Times today reported that their second-quarter profits fell 82 per cent to $21m, or 15 cents per share, compared with the same period a year ago. 82 percent. The paper also suffered a 16.4% decline in...
Read moreFlash! Bananas Grow in Central Park!
When I was a student at Williams College, about a million years ago, my Econ 101 professor, Randy Bartlett told us that the basics of economics could be understood by two axioms: 1. There is not such thing as...
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