The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
December 24th, 2008
New York City, ever self-fixated, is treating the current downturn in the newspaper and magazine industries as a tragedy affecting mainly itself (oh yes, and a few folks in Chicago and LA), forgetting that this recession spreads far beyond its narrow borders. An article yesterday in Canada’s The Globe & Mail (the rough equivalent of…
December 23rd, 2008
Gosh am I slow on the uptake! Here I am in an unseasonably cold Vancouver, BC winter, each night placing kindling under the larger fire logs to ensure they’ll ignite. I just looked for a definition of kindle and find “kindled – ignited: set afire; ‘the ignited paper’; ‘a kindled fire.’” So is that the…
December 23rd, 2008
I’ve tried to remain as dispassionate as possible regarding the ongoing screeches over the death of the newspaper. I’m not in denial: I know the situation is serious. When folks like Mr. Zell bankrupt a communications empire, I do not necessarily regard this as a harbinger of things to come. But when the The Detroit…
December 13th, 2008
Where the …. is the outrage at what Sam Zell has perpetrated in his financial manoeuvrings that have brought The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and 23 television stations into bankruptcy? The aptly-named “Grave Dancer” has just dug a mass-grave for thousands of innocents who work these enterprises. The New York Times first report…
December 12th, 2008
Well, I must give kudos to Steve Rubel, “a marketing strategist and blogger …and senior VP in Edelmean’s Me2Revolution practice.” (What would a junior VP do there?) Mr. Rubel, has by my estimate, broken the 100,000 barrier on the number of essentially self-proclaimed experts who have grabbed at some superficial data points and decided that…