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January 5, 2009

I missed this from biz school prof Kevin Dooley back in August, 2008: [H]ow are polit­ical blogs the same or dif­fer­ent from MSM? Through Wonko­sphere, we have noticed that polit­ical blogs are con­sumed in much the same man­ner as main­stream media is, which indic­ates that read­ers treat polit­ical blogs not as sep­ar­ate from, but rather […]

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What would Jeff do?

October 13, 2008

In case you hap­pen to be a journ­al­ist and Jeff Jar­vis still has you think­ing that news­pa­per prob­lems are your fault, take a look at the New York Times from July, 1980 (and if you like catchy head­lines, they don’t come much catch­ier than this): First U.S. Exper­i­ments in Elec­tronic News­pa­pers Begin in Two Com­munit­ies; 13 News­pa­pers to […]

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Strategy at the New York Times? Goes a little some­thing like this…according to their earn­ings call: There are four key ele­ments to our strategy – intro­du­cing new products and ser­vices, both in print and online; aggress­ively man­aging our costs; rebal­an­cing our port­fo­lio of busi­nesses both by mak­ing acquis­i­tions and by divest­ing prop­er­ties that no longer meet their […]

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More Can You Trust The Media? trust fod­der from the Online Journ­al­ism Sym­posium. A paper titled “A Medi­ated, Inter­act­ive Call to Action: Audi­ence Per­cep­tions of Cred­ib­il­ity and Author­ity for a Times Journ­al­ist in Print vs. Online” picked on the NYT’s Nick Kris­tof and asked people to rate his cred­ib­il­ity as a colum­nist and video reporter. Guess what? […]

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