Steve Safran
Annual report: local media audience in rapid decline
The annual Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism’s “State of the News Media” report is out, and it is a compendium of discouragement for anyone tied to the media. Here are just some of the top lines:
Local TV news audiences fell by an average of 5-6% in the past year, depending upon the hour of [...]
California Watch rewards civility – with iPods
The genius of this… California Watch is having a contest and all you have to do is comment on the site. The site is giving away a free iPod Touch each month for the next six months. (Seems they got the Touches free when they bought computers and wanted to put them to good use.) [...]
Notes: All SXSW “Spring Break for…” edition
Noted, while wondering how you’d pronounce “SXSW.”
SXSW is “Spring Break for nerds,” writes CNN. Don’t be ridiculous. Nerds wouldn’t go on a road trip.
SXSW is “Spring Break for music lovers,” counters The Atlantic.
SXSW is Spring Break for conference badge lovers. All you’d ever want to know about the event’s attendee badge, including proper badge etiquette [...]
Forget SXSW – Come to NXNE!
Yeah, all the hipsters are at SXSW. But forget Austin and come to Boston! LR Friend and Social Media Goddess Rachel Happe (@rhappe, whom you should follow) is putting on NXNE, a Tweetup in nearby Cambridge. If you’re in the area and want to hang with the real cool nerds, sign up. From the [...]
Avoid cliches like the plague: WGN’s banned words
The list has already gained infamy. A writer for NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Blog Me used them all in one sentence. Now we’ve got it – the list of 119 words and phrases that Tribune CEO (that’s right – CEO) Randy Michaels has banned from the airwaves of WGN-AM. It’s a little troubling that a [...]
Msnbc.com slideshow gets 78 million page views
We believe strongly in the power of slide shows, both as narrative devices and page view drivers. Msnbc.com investigative reporter Bill Dedman recently produced a slide show called “The Clarks: an American story of wealth, scandal and mystery,” and in addition to being an excellent work of journalism, it has garnered 78 million page views. [...]
CNN’s Klein says he fears social networks
At a press event in NY today, CNN chief Jonathan Klein says he fears social networks more than his TV competition. “The competition I’m really afraid of are social networking sites,” he said. “That threatens to pull people away from us. The people you’re friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on [...]
KSTP to launch hyperlocal network in Minneapolis
KSTP (ABC) in Minneapolis-St. Paul is launching a network of 80 – 90 hyperlocal sites in the region. KSTP, owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, is going to use the DataSphere technology – the same platform that powers the KOMO hyperlocals in Seattle. Paul Gaulke, creative services director of KSTP, tells MinnPost:
“A lot of the news that [...]
ABC restored to NYC Cablevision subscribers
A deal has been reached, and ABC is back on in New York City for Cablevision subscribers. As a result, New Yorkers only missed the first 13 minutes of the Oscars (I can inform them they didn’t miss much). Earlier on Sunday, ABC pulled its New York affiliate, WABC-TV from Cablevision in a fight over [...]
IB CEO David Lebow: The Lost Remote Interview
The folks at Internet Broadcasting (IB) have been keeping busy. Recently the company announced that three of its equity parnters were re-upping with the company. This week, we have learned, it will announce a strategic partnership with Mashery, a provider of API solutions, to help its clients extend their services to mobile platforms. We spoke [...]
ABC pulls signal from Cablevision in NYC
Just hours before the Oscars are set to begin, ABC has pulled its affiliate, WABC, off Cablevision in New York City. ABC parent company Disney and Cablevision are in a dispute over how much money Cablevision should pay. Three million New Yorkers are affected by the move. Disney wants Cablevision to pay $1 per month [...]
Notes: Iraq election, NYC bloggers, UK Hyperlocal
Noted, while wondering why I wake up earlier on Sundays than any other day of the week…
NYTimes.com is liveblogging the Iraqi elections
NYC issues press passes to bloggers for the first time. (journalism.co.uk)
Hyperlocal in UK under attack from established paper (AboutMyArea)
Notes: Microsoft Tab, ShatnerSpace, YT Captions
Noted, after watching “Alice in Wonderland” and giving it a C…
Whole bunch of pictures of the Microsoft Tablet at engadget. Coolness abounds.
Shatner creates his own social network at MyOuterSpace.com. A Sci-Fi social network. Could he have owned this space (as it were) if he thought of this years ago, or what? (Geekosystem via Mediaite)
Oscar advertisers [...]
Notes: ProPublica, CNC, WaPo’s $1.99 app
A “reporting recipe” to dig up dirt like ProPublica (Nieman)
Chicago News Cooperative has some impressive talent (AJR via Romanesko)
Index pegs Facebook at $11.5B, Twitter at $1.4B, LR at 2.2 B(eers) (BizJournals)
A year of the WaPo for $1.99? Gotta admit, that sounds reasonable. (PaidContent)
And, to go with this week’s theme of hyperlocal alcohol, enjoy a hyperlocal [...]
The ‘Glue’ that holds together more social networking
There’s another social networking site out there now. That may be a ho-hum way to begin an essay, but stay with me for a moment because the new site does many things well. “Glue” works because it takes a new approach to sharing – that is, the sharing of things you like, in large lists. [...]
RTDNA to FCC: Success comes from reinvention
RTDNA President Emeritus Barbara Cochran speaks at the FCC’s “Future of Media” workshop today, and she brings a message about transformation and reinvention. Barbara uses many examples of the good work that local stations are doing as they transform themselves:
“To continue to provide high quality news for their communities at a time when revenues are [...]
Raycom to add neighborhood sites
Add Raycom to the growing list of companies partnering with DataSphere on neighborhood blog sites. In a press release, the company announced it will launch local sites in 35 towns and cities, using DataSphere’s LocalNet service. DataSphere is hot right now, having raised almost $11 million in funding recently.
Raycom, which owns 46 television stations, [...]
Heaton: ‘Kicking butt with Continuous News’
LR Blogger Emeritus (and my business partner for three years) Terry Heaton writes about why Continuous News is the way to go in his blog entry “Kicking butt with Continuous News.” Continuous News, for the uninitiated, is the publication of news as it comes in, rather than in the traditional style of having a conventional [...]
Notes: Facebook ads, NBC to stay broadcast, WiFiPads
Facebook ads: sometimes, a little creepy (NYT)
Comcast says it has no plans to move NBC to cable. (Ad Age)
AT&T thinks people will favor the WiFi-only version of the iPad and not the 3G version. Or, at least, it really hopes so. (ReadWriteWeb)
Comedy Central pulls “Colbert Report” and “The Daily Show” off Hulu. (Good Morning Silicon [...]
E.W. Scripps blames low online advertising on print
There’s an interesting tidbit to be found in the latest quarterly earnings report from E.W. Scripps. Nieman points out that the company seems to be blaming its lower online ad revenue on its newspapers. Nieman found this telltale quote:
“The decline in online revenue…is attributable to the weakness in print classified advertising, to which roughly half [...]
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