The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
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…
December 10th, 2008
Once again I’m including this snippet in my “Good News Report.” According to a December 8th press release from the Pulitzer Prize website, “The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, which honor the work of American newspapers appearing in print, have been expanded to include many text-based newspapers and news organizations that publish only on the Internet,…
November 12th, 2008
The title of this entry is pulled from an article in the New York Times by David Carr published ages ago: October 28th. Titled “Mourning Old Media’s Decline,” the piece allows me to create an entry on this blog that summarizes the sorry state of newspaper and magazine publishing, thereby avoiding what was starting to…
September 20th, 2008
Wow! Jeff Jarvis, whose BuzzMachine blog is one of the best there is, went to town in a September 17th entry sparked by the lawsuit of the journalists at the Los Angeles Times against their controversial new owner, Sam Zell. I think you could say that he really let the journalists have it. The second…