Tag Archives: digital media

Google and the Big Two

Google, the Washington Post and the New York Times launch tool to group stories … as reported in the WP.

A Look at Paid Tweets

An interesting article in the New York Times about paid tweets …

WashPo on Twitter and the NFL

An interesting story in the Washington Post about how Twitter may affect the image of the NFL.

CJR Ponders “News in the Link Economy”

“What’s a fair share in the age of Google?” … that’s what Peter Osnos explores in an article in the Columbia Journalism Review subtitled “How to think about news in the link economy.” Fittingly, we are linking to it.

YouTube’s New Citizen Journalist Resource

If you are an aspiring citizen journalist, YouTube wants to help.  It now has what it calls its Reporter’s Center, “helping you report the news.”  The center encompasses videos by a variety of journalists, either well-known or with well-known organizations…

Bitter Brews for Coffee Chain’s Brand Image

Starbucks’ once-hallowed brand image continues to be under attack.   McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, and other competitors are aggressively pushing the quality and lower price of their coffee.  Consumers are cutting back on expensive lattes due to the economy.  And now Starbucks…

Pew Measures Seismic Shift in Classifieds

It goes without saying that the advent of free online classified sites have whacked a huge hole in newspaper revenues … but a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Pew Internet and American Life Project has a lot of…

It’s Official: Journalist Workload is Increasing

Most journalists say their workloads have increased in the past year, and the need to provide online content in addition to their traditional work is the main reason.  That’s one of the findings in the 2009 PR Week/PR Newswire Media…

Old & New Media Views at Yale

Some interesting comments by a former New York Times reporter and the founder of the Huffington Post at a get-together at Yale University, as reported by the Yale Daily News.  Thirty-year NYT veteran Linda Greenhouse, who has won the Pulitzer…