Research on organizational change shows that its critically important for leaders to reflect on exactly what they reward and what they punish. Employees are closely attuned not only to what you SAY about change, about the future of news and what needs to be done in your newsroom, but also more explicitly what you [...]
Thought I would share a couple of things I’ve read out there on those darn Internets that have puzzled me lately.
First is Poynter’s Rick Edmonds calling for newspapers to substantially raise their prices, noting that US newspapers are much more of a bargain in the United States than in most places abroad, especially in an [...]
I’m reading a book (when I have time, which is clearly not very often) called The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen of Harvard Business School. It was recommended to me by my very smart friend and colleague Jonathan Groves. I’m not very far along, but thought I would share a bit of what I’ve [...]
I’m finding myself wondering what a new spirit of competition will mean for local news.
My research shows that it is finally dawning on newspapers that they can rev up that news engine that invariably is the biggest one in town and, with an increased focus on immediacy, compete with local TV news and radio at [...]
This is a question that I have heard debated fiercely in newsrooms. On the one hand, as the largest news engines in any given metropolitan area, newspapers want to start giving people their news in any medium they want it — and given the success of YouTube, many people feel that involves video. [...]
Journalists clearly aren’t the only ones dealing with major upheaval. According to this piece in CNNMoney.com, an interesting new study found that 83 percent of global CEOs see major changes ahead as they aim to retool their business models to better serve the “information omnivore,” a new breed of consumer that demands a wide [...]
I was interested to see a story by Janet Rae-Dupree in the New York Times about how you can change your habits and develop new skills hover on the most emailed list for quite some time - I guess this indicates that there is a real self-improvement fever out there somewhere. It also has some [...]
Today the well-known scholar and University of California San Diego professor Michael Schudson came to the Missouri School of Journalism to speak to an eager crowd of what I will fondly call a bunch of nerds, myself included. The room was packed with plenty of folks sprawled out on the floor and the PhD-student list-serv [...]
