Irony of ironies
In this week’s NPR’s On the Media, co-host Brooke Gladstone interviewed NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg, who has written about past disasters, most notably in his 2002 book, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy...
View ArticleWhy do mainstream media outlets devote so few resources to media criticism?
For my PBS MediaShift piece this week, I interviewed a Temple University Professor who wrote a paper juxtaposing the volume of media criticism before and after the rise of the web, arguing that a...
View ArticleNews websites need to provide contact info for their journalists
Earlier today, I wanted to send an email to Steve Krakauer, who blogs for Mediaite. The only problem? Mediaite, like thousands of other news websites, only includes a general contact info email address...
View ArticleDid the White House Correspondents’ Association really snub World Net Daily?
Yesterday, the Washington Examiner reported that Arianna Huffington was extremely displeased with the White House Correspondents’ Association, the reason being that in its first year attending the...
View ArticleShould all social media startups offer their services for free?
In a post today at Gigaom, Ryan Kim explores the success story of Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper (an app that allows you to save articles to “read later”). Arment pushes back against some...
View ArticleHow will AOL’s purchase of Outside.in enhance Patch?
Ken Doctor explores the newsonomics of AOL’s $10 million acquisition of local news aggregator Outside.in. When the service launched a few years ago I signed up for it and then promptly forgot about it....
View ArticleWhat Murdoch’s The Daily lacks
Let’s face it: No matter where your opinion falls on pay walls, nearly everyone agrees that a paywall is a barrier. And even those who firmly believe in the existence of a market for paywalled content...
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