Below are the stories I covered for this bi-weekly edition of the OPA intelligence report. Follow the links to read individual stories or click here for full coverage of the top online media news. Any comments are welcome below. Intelligence Report – 8/02/2010 By Mark Glaser and Corbin Hiar NEWS Yahoo Japan picks Google over [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
Sales booming for iPad, as Amazon slashes price on Kindle
Posted in Online Publishers Association, tagged Amazon, Business, Facebook, Foursquare, FTC, Google, iPad, Kindle, Media, NY Times, Wikipedia, Yahoo on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Writers Talk About Working the Hyper-Local Beat
Posted in PBS MediaShift, tagged Journalists, Media, Music, Pay, Washington DC on July 23, 2010 |
This is my second piece for PBS MediaShift, which is again looking at new opportunities for journalists. Although the quotes I got were much less explosive than in the previous piece, I still managed to work in a great anecdote about dropping inappropriate Sarah Palin references into blog posts to drive traffic. In my first [...]
Writers Explain What It’s Like Toiling on the Content Farm
Posted in PBS MediaShift, tagged AOL, Demand Media, Journalists, Media, Pay, Yahoo on July 21, 2010 |
This is my first piece for my new employer, PBS MediaShift. It is my first of two contributions to our week-long series, Beyond Content Farms. The site is examining the rise of farmed and hyper-local content, with my pieces focused on what it’s like to work in these areas. (For an introduction to content farms [...]
Apple iPhone 4 woes lead to free bumpers–but no recall
Posted in Online Publishers Association, tagged Business, Media on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the many things I help out my boss at PBS MediaShift with is his work for the Online Publishers Association, a media research organization founded and financed by some of the biggest names in news after the dotcom crash. He has written a weekly intelligence report for them for over a decade. The [...]
The Odd Case of the Newseum
Posted in More Intelligent Life, tagged Media, Washington DC on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I hope this wasn’t lost in my critique: I really did enjoy the Newseum. But more as Disneyland for news junkies than as a museum. I do recommend it, with the caveats listed in the More Intelligent Life article. One of Washington, DC’s most popular attractions is also its most unwittingly moribund Walking up historic [...]
Iceland: Offshore Haven for Journos?
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged Business, Environment, Law & Order, Media, Recession, Taxes on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Below is my last MoJo blog post. I concluded my internship at the DC bureau of Mother Jones on Friday and had an editor publish the post for me at the beginning of this week. Next stop Reykjavík? (If you have any better ideas, leave me a comment.) Could Iceland soon be to journalists what [...]
The NY Times Paywall: Worth the Wait
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged Advertising, Media on January 20, 2010 |
This morning, Kevin commented on the announcement by the New York Times that it intends to build a paywall around its content… starting next year: This is sort of odd. Why wait until 2011? The technology for tracking visits isn’t very hard to implement. And why announce this without answers to basic questions like “how [...]
American Hikers to Face Trial in Iran
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged Activism, Foreign Policy, Media, Scandal, Travel on December 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For some reason the editors-in-chief, who have been closely following this case because Bauer last wrote for Mother Jones, wanted me to chop the last two paragraphs. I’ve included that upbeat bit added-value reporting to this version of the post. (The Daily Show segment I link to at the end is funny, fascinating, and highly [...]
A Story Requiring More Than 140 Characters
Posted in More Intelligent Life, tagged Humor, Media, Politics, Republicans on November 16, 2009 |
I originally wrote this for Hiar Learning without any intention of publishing it for a wider audience. But before I posted it I showed it to the editor of MIL, who decided to publish it–even though she described it as “self-indulgent.” Guilty as charged: I had fun with this one. So maybe you don’t do the Twitter. [...]
