Posts under ‘News Business’

CNet says CNN wants some of the clips being uploaded to popular video-sharing sites, such as YouTube, to find their way to the cable news channel.

Jay Rosen: The People Formerly Known as the Audience. The people formerly known as the audience are simply the public made realer, less fictional, more able, less predictable. You should welcome that, media people. But whether you do or not we want you to know we’re here. What traditional media folks need to do is […]

Slate’s Jack Shafer, in “Newspapers are dying, but the news is thriving,” writes: Newspapers whose readers are as much constituents as they are readers are the best bets to thrive as they decline. The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times will remain musts for a long time. Luckily for the (Washington) Post, it should continue […]

He’s not leaving the field, but the New York Times’ redeployment of Len Apcar, editor in chief of nytimes.com, to the International Herald Tribune — memo here on Poynter site — means that one of the newspaper business’ real online innovators will not be focusing on this arena. I hope this is what he wants. […]

Washington Post: A Push Toward Private Control of Newspapers. The recent breakup of the Knight Ridder Inc. newspaper chain has helped spark interest around the country in returning papers to local or private ownership after decades of expansion by corporate media conglomerates. This is, on balance, a  good thing. Too few publicly owned newspaper companies […]

David Cay Johnston writes a commentary for the Newspaper Guild, saying: (O)nly a fool would think that newsrooms will escape a trend that has already ended the careers of aeronautical engineers, software designers, auto workers, machinists, call center workers and growing legions of other Americans. Indian firms like Hi-Tech Export solicit work from proofreading and […]

Brian Akre of General Motors’ PR staff says he tried and failed to get his company’s side into the New York Times after GM was slammed (I think with some accuracy) by Thomas Friedman. In “The Ban on `Rubbish’ in The New York Times,” published in GM’s FYI blog, you can read Akre’s account. If […]

Over at buffalo rising are quotes from the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, at which Warren Buffett said, among other things: It may be that no one has followed the newspaper business as closely as we have for as long as we have—50 years or more. It’s been interesting to watch newspaper owners and investors resist […]

As part of the series of columns I’m writing for BBC News, I answer readers’ questions every fortnight (that’s British for every other week). Here’s the latest set of questions and answers from this column, which appeared two weeks ago.

The New York Times, at the tail-end of a report about a new editor for Time, notes a more serious transition.: Donald Barlett and James Steele, two investigative reporters who have chronicled the vicissitudes of the American economy for Time magazine since 1997, have lost their jobs in a budget squeeze. The reporting duo, who […]