Month: January 2007

  • Media trends 2007

    Deloitte has been generating some coverage with its predictions for media trends in 2007. They reckon user-generated content will become more mainstream. So what did they predict in 2006? The music industry should continue the digital revolution Digitization will continue Blogs will be big My prediction for 2008? Media trends surveys banally restating ‘the bleeding…

  • Don’t email Joel Stein

    Not everything should be interactive … If Martin Luther put his 95 Theses on the wall and then all the townsfolk sent him their comments, and he had to write back to all of them and clarify what he meant, some of the theses would have gotten all watered down… The LA Times‘ Joel Stein…

  • The mordant and very readable Jeff Matthews, strays into media and blogs on the new WSJ.

  • Making news pay…

    In contradiction to the old nostrum that you can’t make money out of news, Fox News has just upped its income per subscriber, according to TV Week: Terms of the overall business deal were not disclosed, but Fox News has been receiving an average of about 70 cents per subscriber per month in recent deals.…