Media Industry Archive

Here’s the newest reason for companies in social media not to make money: because their competitors don’t, so they shouldn’t either. That’s the down-low from Nicholas Carlson’s latest post over at Silicon Alley Insider as to why Facebook didn’t hold an auction or seek other kinds of compensation in exchange for the vanity URLs it started to dispense on...

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Apparently, there’s not going to be any actual regime change anytime soon inside Iran, but that country is undergoing a fundamental revolution nonetheless. Thanks to social media — YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and a growing list of others — the ability of any government, let alone Iran’s, to control information has been permanently compromised. As of this hour,...

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It looks as though talk that the cancelled NBC series “My Name Is Earl” may live a new life on TBS is over, despite a Twit-ition of fans wanting to keep the show on air and talks between TBS and “Earl”’s producers about creating new episodes. The series will only appear on the cable net as reruns. There was never any real doubt that, should the show continue, it...

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The riveting coverage of the massive rebellion by what BBC estimates to be over a million people in the streets of Tehran continues over Twitter. In addition, European media have been providing active coverage led by eyewitness reports from reporters like Robert Fisk. Twitter users expressed outrage for much of the weekend that CNN, and other U.S. mainstream media outlets, were barely covering...

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Doing what some say it does best, it looks like Google is going to start piggybacking on Twitter, and other micro-blogging services, by introducing real-time search, probably incorporated into the core service itself.  This news shouldn’t exactly have any of us falling off our chairs; Google, along with the rest of us, has been nursing a severe Twitter obsession lately, and using its own...

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Yesterday may have been a slow news day in the U.S. but in Tehran and other major Iranian cities there was major rioting in response to the government’s announcement that reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had lost the Presidential election by a landslide to incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. For whatever reason, mainstream U.S. news media gave the street insurrection against the Iranian...

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NPR’s On The Media had an interview with Michael Arrington in wake of the New York Times piece on process journalism. But when I followed a link from Twitter about the story, blanket uninformed and unverified — and easily disproven — statements about the “dominance” of TechCrunch were the real surprise. Here’s the statement that smelled like week-old...

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The Associated Press announced today that it will begin distributing investigative reports from four nonprofit news organizations to its member newspapers beginning next month. The AP says this is a “six-month trial” to bolster the ailing newspaper industry, which by virtue of staff and budget cuts, has few resources left to pursue the long-term, expensive investigative projects...

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And so another week with almost no movement in the upfront market comes to a close. It’s now been three weeks since the last of the upfront presentations, and, after what is becoming my usual scan of the news on Friday afternoons to see if anything has happened to get advertisers signing big deals with the networks, I will report the following: it hasn’t. The most interesting story...

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USA Today’s publisher, David Hunke, is clearly aware of the emerging opportunity smart phones and e-readers present print publication companies like his. He’s also willing to continue experimenting with paid content models online — a far more daunting prospect. Hunke announced this week that, starting in August, USA Today will start charging $10/month for a new  e-edition of...

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