I was reading Redbook over the weekend…yes, the actual magazine. Not the digital version. I’m a diehard fan of the hard copy. I don’t have a Nook or a Kindle. They don’t interest me. I just can’t give up that feeling of curling up with a good story and reading it from cover to literal [...]
Just when you think the media business is dwindling and dying, along come a bunch of beacons of hope, some from the most unlikely of sources. We’ve written again and again and again about the contraction of print media, but it seems some won’t go down without a fight. Consider just a few recent examples: [...]
Once again, Stephen Colbert has blurred the lines between real news and “fake news”: In the two weeks since Newsweek has redesigned, the magazine’s editors have sent out a statement that they intend to sever any and all connection to the turgid, dusty newsweekly of yore. And Jon Meacham, the magazine’s editor, is trying to [...]
One of the questions I get a lot from friends who ask me, “What’s new in your biz?”…upon hearing my answer about the evolution of print media and emergence of social media…is, “Can newspapers really go away? Where will we get our news?” My answers are “maybe (sadly)” and “everywhere.” To jump to the chase, [...]
It is one thing to posit the unraveling of print media when discussing local community newspapers shuddering, or to examine how major local dailies are evolving away from the print model in favor of online delivery, but it is especially eye opening to see rumors that a venerable news publisher and one of the nation’s [...]
