Category Archives: Media

There really can’t be any doubt about this one: World Finance splashes Sir Allen Stanford all over the cover of its Jan/Feb 2009 issue. And the prose couldn’t be any more glowing, or more ironic: World Finance’s 2008 Man of … Continue reading →

Josh Marshall points to a classic case of people talking past each other, when Nassim Taleb and Nouriel Roubini appear on CNBC to talk about big-picture economic crisis, while the anchors in the studio are interested in things like why … Continue reading →

I’m not sure why the micropayments-as-the-savior-of-journalism meme seems to have taken off of late, but I’m glad there are lots of people trying to squash it: I’d particularly recommend Gabe Sherman and Clay Shirky. But in the case of Steve … Continue reading →

There’s an interesting quote buried near the end of the NYT’s article on the NYT: Across the Internet, “we have a glut of unsold inventory every single day,” said Kelly Twohig, the digital activation director at Starcom, which buys media … Continue reading →

Marion Maneker gets an astonishing admission from Jonathan Wald, the man in charge of news at CNBC who’s now leaving the station: "Conflict is king in cable television," Wald says. "You want more than one guest at a time. You … Continue reading →

Walter Isaacson has a big article extolling micropayments as the future of the publishing industry — despite the fact that, as he admits, the technology simply doesn’t yet exist to make them easy enough to be workable. What’s more, the … Continue reading →

Ray Pellecchia is right: if Harry Markopolos had taken all of his evidence about Bernie Madoff and put it on a blog, instead of submitting it to the SEC, there’s a good chance that would have been the end of … Continue reading →

Bill Keller’s musings about online subscriptions are causing something of a storm in the blogosphere, and even making the MSM. But I’d highly recommend you read the long version of Keller’s comments, rather than the soundbite version. Keller spends 2,164 … Continue reading →

Jonathan Weber is not a fan of the nonprofit newspaper. Why not? I think it’s a vague sense that being nonprofit is un-American, a bit like bank nationalization: That newspapers should be run as nonprofit organizations strikes me as a … Continue reading →

Many thanks to Ashley Huston in the Dow Jones PR department for chasing down answers to the questions I posed last week when I asked whether the WSJ was rewriting old articles. In the case of the article about John … Continue reading →

When I had lunch with the FT’s Rob Grimshaw, we spent all of our time talking about two sources of revenue: advertising, on the one hand, and subscriptions, on the other. Little did I imagine there was a third coming … Continue reading →

Steve Coll, reacting to David Swensen and Michael Schmidt, picks up the nonprofit newspaper meme and runs with it: Not to pick on any one institution, but, from a constitutional perspective, how did we end up in a society where … Continue reading →

I just had a long lunch with FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw. He’s been in the job for about six months now, and I was interested to hear his take on everything from subscription firewalls to RSS feeds. It was … Continue reading →