Posts under ‘News Business’

The SF Chronicle reports that Current TV, the cable channel that’s doing some innovative bottom-up work to inspire citizen-generated content, will be getting carriage on Comcast’s cable networks. This is a milestone for Current and, maybe, for the genre. deal to make the San Francisco company’s programs available to more Comcast subscribers.

I wish I could have attended yesterday’s “Un-Conference” about the future of journalism in Philadelphia, where a bunch of great folks met to discuss how a great American city can have great American journalism in an era when newspapers are coming under attack as businesses and news “consumers” (precisely the wrong word, which is why […]

UPDATED The Commonwealth Club event is scheduled for Thursday evening, March 30, in San Jose. (Details here.) Howard Weaver, VP of News for McClatchy, which is buying (some of) Knight Ridder, is the latest panelist. Howard Weaver, who was scheduled to be a panelist, has pulled out, unfortunately, but it still should be an interesting […]

Knowledge@Wharton: Are Newspapers Yesterday’s News? To remain competitive in the coming years, these scholars say, daily newspapers will have to strengthen their efforts to attract younger readers, make more imaginative use of the Internet, and develop stories, mostly local in nature, that better meet the needs of readers who have thousands of news and information […]

Pew Internet & American Life Project Report: By the end of 2005, 50 million Americans got news online on a typical day, a sizable increase since 2002. Much of that growth has been fueled by the rise in home broadband connections over the last four years. For a group of “high-powered” online users – early […]

The L.A. Times picked up on an interesting thread from the State of the News Media 2006 report, released last week. L.A. Times: A “new paradox of journalism” has emerged in which the number of news outlets continues to grow, yet the number of stories covered and the depth of many reports is decreasing, according […]

Over at my blog on Bayosphere, I propose that Yahoo could help save the San Jose Mercury News.

In Part One of this post, I highlighted a few initiatives launched by newspapers that are incorporating more video content into their offerings. However, consumers’ increasing enthusiasm for watching video online presents a much more immediate and direct challenge to the broadcast industry. Slowly, but surely, the networks are catching on. In the last few […]

PaidContent: Netscape.com To Be Relaunched As a Digg-Like Site; Calacanis Heading It: The storied Netscape.com will be revived again by AOL, and will relaunch soon as a Digg-like user-driven news/aggregation site with Jason Calacanis at the helm, sources have told paidContent.org. This is a brilliant idea. For most people the name “Netscape” is still somewhat […]

Hottest media platform of the hour? Video. Online video. The recent launch of Google Video, major sales of TV episodes on iTunes, and growing popularity of sites like YouTube.com suggest that video streaming technology is finally good enough to make video content on the Internet worth our time. Short and often high-quality videos (which will […]