Posts under ‘News Business’

Big, big news in journalism today: First, read this press release from Reuters about the launch of its Reuters Africa site. The mission: to cover Africa in detail and from all angles, to give a wider sense of the issues and their contexts, and to explore the individual countries and cultures. Reuters Africa will target […]

Take a look at jerryrobertsandfriends.org, created in the wake of the bizarre goings-on at the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press, where the owner has been firing people right and left — and suing journalists who write what she claims are unfair stories about her actions: Amid the ongoing exodus of dozens of professional journalists from the […]

The AP reports: XM and Sirius to combine; hurdles loom, and says: It’s too early to say what the deal will mean for subscription prices. The merger could bring down the cost of providing service, but at the same time give the company more pricing power as the only U.S. satellite radio provider. No, it’s […]

Steven Rattner, in “Red All Over,” says: We’ve had experience in the past — the New York City subways come to mind — with businesses that began as conventional, for-profit corporations, and, for one reason or another, were later rendered unprofitable while still being viewed as essential services. It’s time to apply some creative thinking […]

IDG executive Colin Crawford, discussing the media company’s transformation, says: The brutal reality that we’re facing today is the costly process of dismantling and replacing legacy operations and cultures and business models with ones with new and yet to be fully proven business models. However, we face greater risks if we don’t transform our organization […]

I’m in an airport airline club where a big-screen TV is showing CNN. It’s a split screen. Half is devoted to some meaningless hearing in the Anna Nicole Smith case. The other features a private plane that may or may not be having trouble with landing gear. Last night and the night before I was […]

Steve Outing collected some opinions for a piece in Editor & Publisher about where news habits are heading. Read them (including a brief comment from me) in “Where News Consumption Is Heading.”

TV Technology: Corporations Co-opt Citizen Journalism. Aided by the Internet and low-cost digital media acquisition tools, there is no doubt that a handful of talented, dedicated independent media creators have and continue to innovatively challenge the world’s largest corporate media organizations.However, as with most good things, the big guys eventually tried to co-opt it for […]

The PBS Frontline series starts in most places tonight. It looks extraordinary.

Lost Remote: AP jumps into citizen journalism with NowPublic deal. In effect, with AP’s broad distribution, this is the biggest development so far in the short history of citizen journalism, although Reuter’s recent citizen journalism deal with Yahoo’s You Witness News is a close second. This will be worth watching closely. A key question, plainly, […]