Category Archives: Mass Communication
Another Paper Cuts Back On Print – and Staff
An ongoing preoccupation among those of us who study the media industries is newspapers’ struggle to find a way to stay afloat financially in an online world. As has been noted here and other places, readers and advertisers are moving … Continue reading
Warren Buffett embraces newspapers … again
And now for today’s million-dollar question: What drives one of the world’s richest individuals and most respected investors to place a bet on the future of what some have argued is a dying medium? Correct answers will likely not be … Continue reading
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Tagged newspapers, Warren Buffett
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On a TV Binge
Online video content providers, like Netflix and Hulu, are moving into providing original content in hopes of drawing in additional viewers or subscribers. Examples of original content commissioned by online video companies include Netflix’s Lilyhammer and the upcoming revival of … Continue reading
Jenkins interview series
Henry Jenkins is a renowned expert on media and popular culture and one of my all-time favorite writers. Earlier this month, he started publishing at his blog a series of interviews with various scholars focused on the same subjects he … Continue reading
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Tagged Beth Coleman, Henry Jenkins, Jose M. Alvarez-Monzoncillo, media and popular culture, social media, transmedia storytelling
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Newspapers: Making online pay
Anyone who has been paying attention to the news industries knows that newspapers have been struggling to find a way to generate enough revenue from their online operations to offset declines in print advertising and subscription revenue, and thus keep … Continue reading
Newspapers today and yesterday
An article in today’s New York Times looked at the relatively recent trend of mega-wealthy individuals buying newspapers — a state of affairs that should cause at least a mild case of déjà vu for anyone conversant in the history … Continue reading
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Weighing the pros and cons of Internet activism
Writing for The New York Times, David Carr at first sounds a note of skepticism about causes advanced online, only to conclude that: … hashtags come and go, and the so-called weak ties of digital movements are no match for … Continue reading
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Overdone on being offended?
TV host Bill Maher offers his take on American hyperventilation over harsh language. His proposed solution: If you see or hear something you don’t like in the media, just go on with your life … When the lady at Costco … Continue reading
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