Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Twitter's purchase of data firm an example of a new kind of media competition

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I’ve been expecting Twitter to assert more control over the enormous volume of data generated by its users because the data can be sold to ...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Pulitzer Prizes an occasion to consider relationship of newspaper quality to economic success

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The Pulitzer Prizes announced today offer a chance to consider three studies of the links between journalistic quality and economic succe...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Cortez the Killer (Neil Young interpreted by Warren Haynes/Dave Matthews Band)

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The power of virtuosi in live performance. Nothing to discuss, just a nice example of what the Internet is for.

Late night TV replacement hosts were selected to avoid declines in audience ratings

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Creating a network television schedule is similar to assembling a portfolio of financial investments, according to a useful paper by the ...
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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Coordination costs can make it difficult to create synergies at media firms

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Media firms have for years tried to reduce their costs by centralizing the production and marketing of a variety of content. But the cost of...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Shifting production to the Internet creates new problems that newspapers must solve

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As newspapers shift from print to the Internet, they are hoping to significantly reduce production costs. These companies are trying to of...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Some reasons digital media probably won't offset the decline in traditional journalism jobs

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The long-term decline in journalism jobs appears quite serious because Internet-based firms don’t have a business model that can generate en...