In looking over our data for this year's Newspaper Report due out later on this month it’s easy to see American newspaper studies are in dire straights. With subscription rates falling and more people getting their news online newspapers have had to revamp their old business model. No American newspaper seems to be taking a more proactive attitude towards the threat of the web then The New York Times....
Continue ReadingTime Magazine is running a poll on their website in conjunction with their annual naming of the Time Person of the Year. Twenty five finalists are presented, and users are encouraged to rank each person on a ten point scale. Following in a time honored tradition, supporters of scientist Douglas Melton have apparently hacked the poll,...
Continue ReadingThough I was not in attendance at this year' Web 2.0 Summit in sunny San Francisco, most of the content is available online for anybody to check out (I love how efficiently information disseminates when you put on a convention chock full of web 2.0 nuts). Featuring some highly influential speakers including Al Gore,...
Continue ReadingTwitter is a micro-blogging platform that allows users to communicate with one another through short, concise, messages of no more than 140 characters. Part of the attraction of Twitter is its immediacy, which makes it ideal for sharing articles and breaking news. Given the news focus, it is no surprise a journalists have taken to the tool,...
Continue ReadingChuck and I recently attended the 6th Summit on Measurement, sponsored by the Institute for Public Relations (IPR). This year the location was Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the festivities began with a meet-and-greet in Strawberry Banke. Tours of local restored houses and mansions were provided while conversation began among PR,...
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