Maybe Dan Abrams Is On To Something
Dan Abrams, the MSNBC talker and would-be PR counselor, has been taking some heat (from this blogger and elsewhere) about the stated strategy of his Abrams Research shop to use working journalists as moonlighting PR consultants to his clients. With journalism under siege and journalism jobs vanishing faster than you can say “Huffington Post,” it [...]
"Journalism Online" Revenue-Generating Scheme Is About 10 Years Too Late
Great idea — lousy timing. That’s my assessment of Journalism Online, the new venture that aims to wring some revenue for traditional media out of Internet users accustomed to getting free access. It’s a noble goal, but it’s woefully late. Internet users are WAAY past being willing to pay for stuff they’ve gotten used to [...]
All Together Now: Bloggers Are Real Media!
Thank you, City of Long Beach, CA, for giving us all another reminder that the world has changed and that there’s this new thing called the Internet and a new medium called “blogs” and that together they are “new media.” The story: An aviation blog called “The Cranky Flier” got a good little story: that [...]
The Online-Only SeattlePI.com Will Be a Media Relations Challenge
Take a moment and note that this is a landmark day in American journalism, and by extension, American public relations. A major American metropolitan newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has completely dropped its print edition and gone online only. It’s hard to imagine this not being the first of a trend, and perhaps even the beginning [...]
Physical Media is So Not Dead
I’ve been meaning to reply to Steve Rubel’s post of earlier this month for some time — namely, his thesis that within five years, non-digital media will be dead or almost dead. To wit: I want to make a bet with you today. By January 2014 I will wager that in the US almost all [...]
Thinking Like This Is Killing the Print Media
My copy of the San Francisco Chronicle this morning came wrapped in a page-and-a-half ad touting the beginning of Emirates Airlines’ new SF-to-Dubai non-stop luxury flights. A great ad placement in a difficult time for the print newspaper business. Inside the paper, on the top of Page B1, was a story critical of Emirates because [...]
Newspapers Are Still A $60 Billion-a-Year Industry
Great piece this morning on CNN.com/Fortune about the current state of the newspaper industry. Despite all the bad headlines, reports Richard Siklos, newspapers are still generating $60 billion in sales and still generating “decent profits.” Yes, public stock investors are unhappy with the performance of newspaper stock prices, but that’s another issue. And for sure, [...]