Columbia Media School
On the other hand…. In 1983 I graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The emphasis was on the journalism. With a capital J. Any discussion of ‘business’ was deemed a dirty word, somehow infecting the ‘purity’...
Read moreObama 1, Media 0
It worked for him…. Question: What has Barack Obama got that most journalists don’t? Answer: A job. Obama and his team understood how to use the web to build a massive online ‘affinity group’ to both raise money and...
Read moreThe Bill Gates Solution
Criminal Behavior? In 1976, the Homebrew Computer Club was the nexus of software development in the Seattle area. Homebrew was the home of software enthusiasts Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, among others. The theme of Homebrew was ‘give help...
Read moreThinking Inside the Box
It was there in front of us all along As newspapers desperately grapple to save themselves, their salvation (and the salvation of local TV news as well ) may right in front of them. Newspapers are machines for gathering...
Read moreHow Sweet It Is
Mel Taylor, Mark Potts and me in Hershey, Pa. Many years, ago, when I was a kid at camp, we used to take a field trip to the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Hershey, Pennsylvania. To this day I can...
Read moreThe End of the Beginning
Even more powerful than Rupert Murdoch… The closing of the 150-year old Rocky Mountain News was certainly a troubling harbinger of where print is headed. Now word is out that The New York Times is threatening to close The...
Read moreFacebook + Content = Newspaper?
170 million users can’t be wrong… The New York Times has about 1 million readers every day. Facebook has 170 million users. This tells you something. The NY Times, (and NBC and The SF Chronicle) were all created in...
Read moreInherit The Wind
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. -Proverbs 11:29 The 1960 film Inherit The Wind fictionalized the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial over evolution and the...
Read moreWake Up!!!
I read newspapers online….why? The San Francisco Chronicle is dead. So apparently are the 150 year old Rocky Mountain News, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune, The LA Times, The New York Times and just about every other major...
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