I fully expect that most television journalists will not have dived into a copy of Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting by Richard E. Caves. Freakonomics it is not.
But Caves is the guy (ok, Nathaniel Ropes Research Professor of Political Economy at Harvard) who suggested something that may be appealing to journalists when considering the news media’s current economic plight. Continue reading
For those not familiar with it, Britain’s Channel 4 News is probably what the Guardian would look like on television.
A very smart former Fulbrighter at Harvard KSG, Felicity Spector will be producing their road coverage of the US Presidential election. She’s an old chum and is blogging here. Worth checking out.
If you bought Chris Anderson’s Long Tail argument, you may want to read Anita Elberse’s demolition job in the Harvard Business Review. Continue reading