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25 Nov. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

Media

Are we sure is Freedom of the press the real problem?

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1 Oct. 2009 | | Massimo Famularo

Media

Is the Miami Herald Useless ?

It looks like a good article - Hialeah and Weston : A tale of two cities, one health crisis but don’t look too carefully. The key facts reported appear in paragraphs four and five (after a back-in lead humanizing the statistics) : More than half (...)

28 sep. 2009 | | Michael Froomkin

Media

The War to Shut Newspapers in Morocco is Not Yet Over

a cover of the weekly Almichaal titled “The Scandals of the King’s Aunts”

The Weekly ALMICHAAL is the New Victim. The list of Moroccan journalists who have been taken to courts from January 2007 up to now is too long. After Driss Ksikes and Sanaa Al-Aji (from the weekly magazine Nichane), Ahmed Benchemsi (the director of (...)

29 Jul. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Media

Someone’s got it in for us, they’re planting stories in the press

Bob Dylan lyric too appropriate not to use yet again. Who is trying to frighten MySociety.org users ? It begins with a Daily Telegraph story that a clerk, Lisa Greenwood, in the Department for Children, Schools and Families was sacked for posting a (...)

7 jui. 2009 | | Alex Harrowell

Media

Iran : The “Value” of Newspapers

With all the noise (Twitter, Facebook, CNN, et al) coming out of Iran amid the protests over the presidential elections, newspapers are working hard to provide a sense of what it all means by filtering, curating and adding perspective and insight. Of (...)

25 jui. 2009 | | Mark Evans

Business

The Economist succeeds in being profitable : an exception in its sector

Contrary to its opponents, the British news magazine The Economist Group succeeded in remaining profitable during its 2008-2009 term which ended in March. The group saw its profit increase by 26% to reach 55.7 million pounds (66 million euros). The total (...)

23 Jun. 2009 | | NYFP

Media

Boston Globe on Verge of being Shutdown

It seems newspapers are falling like dominoes, and quite honestly I think it is going to get much worse for other papers nationwide. If your like me, during the weekdays I simply do not have time to read the paper I get my news fix online. On Sunday I (...)

4 mai. 2009 | | Geek News Central

Media

Newspapers : more creativity, please

As many people probably know by now, Google came out with another of its Google Labs features on Monday : a Google News timeline view, which gives users the ability to see and scroll through headlines, photos and news excerpts by day/week/month/year. The (...)

22 avr. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram

Comment

There’s a Reason They Call Him the “Supreme” Leader

Matt Duss makes the excellent point that we could probably do with less close-reading of Iranian political developments : Yesterday, the New York Times reported that one of former Iranian president - and current presidential candidate - Mohamed (...)

12 mar. 2009 | | Matthew Yglesias

Media

Save the newspapers, save the world

Today marks the first day that the Calgary Herald is published in its smaller and more compact broadsheet format. I commend the makers of the newspaper for this crucial step towards moving their paper into the 21st century. For years I have decried the (...)

2 mar. 2009 | | Werner Patels

Media

Moral Equivalence in the New York Times

"A picture is worth a thousand words," goes the old saying, and the four pictures used by the New York Times today, in its article on the Dimona suicide bombing, made the following statement : that there is moral equivalence between the victims (...)

6 fév. 2009 | | Mediacrity

Media

Are Newspapers Dinosaurs ? Does it Matter ?

Food for thought on a glorious, it’s-good-to-alive Sunday morning is an article by John Honderich in the Toronto Star about the future of newspapers and whether new models can continue to make them viable. As someone who has spent most of his career (...)

2 fév. 2009 | | Mark Evans

Media

Should Yahoo buy the New York Times ? Puh-leeze

As everyone waits to find out how new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz plans to resuscitate the struggling Internet giant, in the meantime, the stress of watching Yahoo bungle one thing after another - such as coming within inches of a merger with Microsoft, only to (...)

28 jan. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram

Comment

Grand Forks Herald Worships John Hoeven

This is got to be one of the most sycophant passages the Herald has ever put in one of their editorials. Gov. John Hoeven has shown himself to be a skilled steward of state government. You don’t inherit a state with no budget reserve and then (...)

10 déc. 2008 | | Rob Port

Business

Loser Pays

Marie Gryphon has a paper out from the Manhattan Institute advocating the adoption of a “loser pays” model for civil litigation : The United States struggles with a uniquely costly civil justice system. The direct costs of tort litigation, in (...)

4 déc. 2008 | | Matthew Yglesias

Comment

How Newspapers Can Turn Problems Into Profit

A few weeks ago I wrote about the perfect storm facing print media. Robert Scoble started a similar thread on Friendfeed over the weekend. This week in my AdAge column I look at the same trends, but this time through the lens of potential solutions to the (...)

6 aoû. 2008 | | Steve Rubel

Media

Why blogs are better than newspapers

There has been a lot of talk over recent years about how online classifieds like Craigslist have been the cause of the decline in the overall revenue and profit of the newspaper industry (some papers still thrive). I do not believe that this is the whole (...)

16 jui. 2008 | | Geek News Central

Media

The programmable New York Times

“Yes, the audience (gasp) talks back, and they often prefer talking to each other than simply consuming the news that media professionals decide to dole out.” And that’s about the best summation we’ve seen on how the Net is (...)

28 mai. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Media

Moral Equivalence in the New York Times

6 fév. 2008 | | Mediacrity

People

Britney’s news are that important?

Even though we all know that all the "stars" calls up our and media attention, are Britney’s news that important?, shouldn’t we pay more attention to other subjetcts rather than spending all that energy which could be much more (...)

16 Jan. 2008 | | micmac08USA

International

Why is the European press more pessimistic than the American press ?

Paul Krugman points this out, for instance read today’s FT article, titled in the print edition "Investors Fear New Turmoil : Credit markets Expect Recession in US." InTrade gives about a fifty percent chance of recession in the U.S., so (...)

27 nov. 2007 | 1 comment | Marginal Revolution

Comment

Brave new world

In the 24th century, Starfleet personnel will write up their reports, read books and do a host of other things on small devices known as PADDs - in the world of Star Trek, that is. Thanks to online bookseller Amazon, we are now a step closer to the world (...)

22 Nov. 2007 | | Werner Patels

Media

Tradeoffs

Apparently The New Yorker now runs web-only articles (who knew ?) and one of them is this great James Surowiecki piece about the Laffer acolytes of the world. Since I’ve sort of blogged this general subject to death already, though, it’s worth (...)

25 oct. 2007 | | Matthew Yglesias

Media

’The Newspaper Became Ours’

Steve Garfield got the last word in the opening session of the networked journalism summit, which focused on local initiatives. John Wilpers had been talking about BostonNow, the Boston-based newspaper that focuses on citizen journalism content. Wilpers (...)

11 oct. 2007 | | Andy Carvin

Media

New York Times uses story, neglects to mention blogger is the source

Yesterday we did a post on a breaking story about popcorn lung. It’s not just workers. Consumers are also at risk, although how much risk is hard to say. Casual consumption of microwave popcorn using the artificial butter flavoring diacetyl is (...)

7 sep. 2007 | | Effect Measure

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