Thursday, April 30, 2020

A note on minimizing common problems reporting trends in Covid-19 statistics

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Some of the most widely-reported statistics about Covid-19 are based on daily updates of total "new" cases in the previous 24-hour...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

Coronavirus is a test for local journalism, will it pass?

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Information and misinformation about the new Coronavirus has for weeks been easily available to anyone with an Internet connection -- i.e. ...
Monday, April 25, 2016

How to evaluate Gannett's offer to buy Tribune Publishing

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Gannett revealed today that it wants to buy the Tribune Publishing company for about $815 million. The offer is about 63% higher than the T...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Glimpse of Tumblr is reminder new media business model isn't generating many jobs

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There is still a lot we don’t know about the new media business model, so even a glimpse of the model’s inner workings can be valuable. A Ne...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Newspaper industry revenue declines have slowed, but revenue hasn’t stabilized

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 Click to open full size Some analysts argue declines in newspaper industry revenue are finally stabilizing. The Newspaper Associat...
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...