Ug…The blog hasn’t been as active this summer because as I previously noted, I’ve been busy with just a few things! Hope to gear it up again soon.
Newspapers are finally beginning to truly embrace change. They are creating structures and processes that allow them to break news online all day (here is one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In a comment on my last post about “verification communities”, my good friend and very wise former journalist with 18 years of experience in the newspaper biz Doreen Marchionni mentioned a new strategy for online newspaper advertising that I wanted to take a moment to highlight because I think it makes some very interesting food [...]
The New Yorker piece on the demise of the American newspaper by Eric Alterman has been buzzing about among most folks I know for quite awhile now, so I’m assuming that many people have read it.
My favorite part of the article — and maybe this is for no other intellectual reason aside from the [...]
Although Vogue is clearly not a news publication, its controversial new cover raises some important organizational issues relevant to media organizations, and speaks to the importance of fostering open communication and an inclusive decision-making process.
Good friend and fellow organizational scholar Elizabeth Hendrickson and I were chatting about the issue this morning. Elizabeth has 10 [...]
Many people probably saw Jack Shafer’s Slate column published on March 14 on copy editing changes at the Washington Post (he also posted an internal Post memo on the changes). Obviously, the Post has a massive desk and more resources than most papers, but it still presents some interesting ideas on how one might [...]
Reporter Steve Lahor deals a blow to technological determinism and speaks to the importance of managing change well in an interesting, and, I think, hopeful article in the New York Times today.
Pointing to mainframe computers and radio as examples of “survival technologies” that have lasted long past their predicted demise, Lahor writes:
“It is the business [...]
According to The New York Observer, NBC and MSNBC were partners more on paper than in fact until recently when MSNBC’s staffers were moved from Secaucus, New Jersey to the Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York. Proximity can improve communication — a key aspect in any organizational change.
Another factor in getting buy-in for change is [...]
