The Soloist – A Documentary on the Death of Newspapers
Emmy for best documentary? Flying trans-Atlantic once a week gives you two things: -Lots of frequent flyer miles -A chance to see just about every movie there is. Virgin Atlantic offers a wide range of films, and being captive...
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 moreOnly Yesterday
In 1981, KRON4 (of all people) ran the story embedded above. It was about a radical new experiment. A newspaper in San Francisco was putting its newspaper online.
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 moreNews from Newark
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noytnvRxcTg&hl=en&fs=1[/youtube] A shy New Jersey chiaropractor suffers a stroke on a golf course, and his life is suddenly transformed. He can’t stop making art. We were out in Newark this week at a mass meeting to talk about new...
Read moreThe Repository of All Human Knowledge
what would you like to know…. OK It’s one of those late night Science Fiction movies in which a time traveller goes into the future and discovers that the whole world has become a land in which learning and...
Read moreOut of Detroit
Motown news When it comes to cutting edge trends, we generally say that California leads and the nation follows. When it comes to contracting industries, maybe that accolade should go to Detroit. This week, as automakers made their case...
Read moreA Silver Lining
cotton….. Sometimes, in the destruction of one industry lies the seeds of another one. But it is not easy to see. In 1852, the discovery of domestic sources of oil spelled the death knell of the whaling business. In...
Read moreDarwinian Journalism
An evolving medium In the Autumn of 1836, The Beagle, a British ship on a 4-year voyage around the world dropped anchor in the Galapagos Islands, off Ecuador. The ship would stay for a month. Aboard was a young...
Read moreWhat Is A Newspaper?
All the news that’s fit to print…. or other stuff also? In 1452 when Johannes Gutenberg first laid paper on inked movable type, he printed a bible. He printed a bible because that was the only kind of book...
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