Tag Archives for hyperlocal
This Week in Review: The New York Times’ fees and free-riders, and tying community to local data
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 25, 2011.] Debating the Times’ pricing structure: There was really only one big news story in the media world this week: The New York Times’ paid-content plan, which … Continue reading
This Week in Review: ‘Mosques’ and SEO, Google’s search and social troubles, and a stateless WikiLeaks
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 27, 2010.] Maintaining accuracy in an SEO-driven world: Apparently the future-of-news world isn’t immune to the inevitable dog days of August, because this week was one of the … Continue reading
This Week in Review: Patch’s local news play, Facebook takes location mainstream, and the undead web
[This post was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 20, 2010.] Patch’s big hyperlocal news play: AOL’s hyperlocal news project, Patch, launched a site in Morristown, New Jersey, this week — not a big story by itself, but … Continue reading
This Week in Review: The Times’ blogs behind the wall, paid news on the iPad, and a new local news co-op
[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 26, 2010.] A meter for the Times’ blogs: Plenty of stuff happened at the intersection of journalism and new media this week, and for whatever reason, a lot … Continue reading
Why ESPN keeps growing while most everything else falls apart
For virtually every other American old-media company, this decade has been one of collapse, of downsizing, of a steady chipping away of authority. The theme of this decade in news media could easily be Yeats’ line, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”
Yet for ESPN, this has been the decade of expansion, of hegemony, of steadily mounting authority. Continue reading