Category: Media

  • Publicly-funded journalism in the United States?

    Yesterday, Wall Street wiz Steve Rattner used the unlikely platform of the Wall Street Journal to appeal for publicly-funded journalism in the United States: We could create a pool of money (possibly from a license fee similar to how the BBC is funded). News organizations with an expensive but important project in mind could apply…

  • From the New York Times According to new data released yesterday by the Nielsen Company, people who own digital video recorders, or DVRs, still watch, on average, two-thirds of the ads. One big reason is that many people with DVRs still tune in to watch about half of their shows at the scheduled start time,…

  • Firing all your editorial staff and asking viewers for video? Say a big welcome to loser generated content.

  • Ghost Plane author Stephen Grey reviews the new 24.