Media Industry Archive

When historians get around to chronicling the convergence of print and mobile technologies in the media industry, they’ll duly note today’s development. Artist Jorge Colombo drew the cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine on his iPhone, using an app called Brushes, “while standing outside Madame Tussad’s Wax Museum in Times Square.” The magazine playfully...

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Finally, a story that explains how it is that the singing phenomenon, and YouTube sensation Susan Boyle hasn’t been reaping monetary rewards above and beyond the normal for the companies who produce “Britain’s Got Talent,” the British talent show on which she made her name. To me, this story in The New York Times is a classic tale of old methods of media monetization not...

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If classified ads were a backbone of the newspaper business, then the very center of the spine was the public notice. Mandated by laws and courts, these often long recitations of detail were to give official notification, to any who were interested, of the legal intents and actions of both government entities and companies that found themselves under some appropriate regulation. But the town of...

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David Weir noted the recent advertorial from the Newspaper Association of America. David ably points out how the financial health of some bellwether newspaper properties flies in the face of the Pollyanna-like pleadings of NAA CEO John Sturm. But I found myself struck by how delicately constructed the claims were, and so decided to deconstruct the piece. More than 104 million adults read a...

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“Dear Home Delivery Subscriber, “Effective Monday, June 1, there will be an increase in the price of the home delivery of The Times…We regret having to raise rates at this time of financial challenge for so many cross the nation. It is, however, one of a number of steps we must take in order to secure the core qualities that define The Times and make it so highly valued buy...

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The impending death of the newspaper industry is vastly overstated, according to John F. Sturm, President and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America. In a recent advertorial, he offers this evidence: More adults read a newspaper every day than watch the Super Bowl, and more than four times as many who watch American Idol. Sixty-one percent of 18-34 year olds read a newspaper every week....

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(Note: This post has been updated and corrected. The NiN performance I incorrectly identified as happening last night at the Shoreline Amphitheater is in fact occurring tonight, even as I key in these words. My apology. My conclusions about its likely impact, however, including the role played by Google employees, remain in place.) Can Rock and Roll plus social media save a dying young...

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Apple rumored to release Web tablet in 2010 — Apple is rumored to be working on a lightweight tablet computer that would be an intermediate step between a mobile device, such as the iPhone, and highly portable “netbooks.” The highly secretive company’s recent technology purchases, patent filings and hints in the iPhone operating system’s code have lead many to...

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The latest potential shift in a game of programming musical chairs that’s been going on this week is that TNT might pick up the sitcom “My Name Is Earl” which has been the subject of a “Twit-ition” to keep it on air. (In a delicious side note, when NBC decided to drop the series, “Earl” producer, Greg Garcia, likened it to “being thrown off the...

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About a week ago, former CNN anchor (and current Internet correspondent) Veronica De La Cruz launched a Twitter campaign to try and help save her 27-year-old brother Eric’s life. (He is dying from a rare condition and needs a heart transplant to survive. On Twitter, The Expert picked up on Eric’s cause, which in turn sent the issue up the quirky Twitter hierarchy to those who have...

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