The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
January 25th, 2009
I’m torn. A twitter can alert us to breaking news at speeds far faster than any newspaper ever could. Yet with its 140-character limit it surely cannot do much more than create an alert and a quick observation. There’s a huge gulf between a twitter and investigative journalism. In a perfect world, Twitter would eventually…
January 21st, 2009
That’s the title of a perversely amusing story in today’s New York Times. Apparently a certain Mr. Aleksandr Y. Lebedev, whose former career including spying on Britain for the KGB, has seen his personal fortune take a surprising turn for the better. He know owns the National Reserve Bank, 30 percent of the Aeroflot airline…
January 21st, 2009
This week’s New Yorker offers a gem of an article on the historic struggles that newspapers have endured to survive. While the article starts out in the present: “The newspaper is dead. You can read all about it online, blog by blog, where the digital gloom over the death of an industry often veils, if…
January 2nd, 2009
How did I miss this one from December 23rd? Mea maxima culpa! (From the Latin: “My most grievous fault.”) The source is most reputable: The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The news about the news continues its discouraging trend. This one ranks as a milestone. According to the press release: “The…
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…