Economics of Media
Discussions of economic forces that shape mass media in the information age.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
What were the Miami Herald's editors thinking?
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A badly-conceived "experiment" recently ended when the Miami Herald stopped asking its online readers for voluntary donations to ...
Monday, February 15, 2010
Google Buzz Privacy Complaints and the Economics of Social Networks
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The economics of social networking favor whoever attracts the most users first, so it's no surprise Google used its vast trove of user d...
Sunday, February 7, 2010
NBC and the myth of rational decision making
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Dick Cavett's meditation on the Tonight Show train wreck is a reminder that sometimes bad decisons cannot be stopped at even the most ex...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
How Much Should The New York Times Charge for Web Access?
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Today is the breathlessly anticipated day Apple will unveil its tablet, and part of the buzz focuses on how much newspapers might charge fo...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
A first reaction to the New York Times' plan to charge for some web access
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The decision to charge for "frequent web access" to the New York Times web site is almost certainly not intended to generate enou...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
When Genuis Fails
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Sometimes the other guys are just too good.
Monday, April 6, 2009
New York Times threat to close Boston Globe prompts some weird criticism
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Six years ago the New York Times Co. paid more than $1 billion for the Boston Globe , bringing two of the most respected newspapers in the ...
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