Publishing

Archive of blog posts on the publishing industry and news media best practices.

Why the News Business Isn’t Profitable

September 10, 2010

This is a guest post from Aaron Goldman, author of Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google. Aaron is doing a blog tour in support of the book launch (covering 30 blogs in 10 days) which I thought was an interesting concept. I’ve been through the book and it’s a good read; for [...]

Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging

May 12, 2010

I was reading Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam’s piece on his time at Newsweek in the 1970s and this passage caught my attention: For me, Newsweek was like an upside-down journalism school, where I learned an astonishing number of bad habits, e.g., having someone else check your facts. We poached material constantly, from newspapers, from [...]

The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough?

April 8, 2010

The cease and desist letter and the ensuing war of words between The Wrap’s Sharon Waxman and Newser’s Michael Wolff is getting a lot of industry attention this week. To me the real question is: when one site aggregates another’s content, how much attribution is enough? The value and legitimacy of content aggregation is a [...]

Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much

March 12, 2010

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch was on Fox Business yesterday talking about the business model for media content on the Internet. Here’s what he said he had to say about search engines:

AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001?

February 23, 2010

There is an interesting article in BusinessWeek on how AOL is utilizing software and analytics data in an effort to match content with user interests and monetize it more successfully. Are you sure you want to write that article, Dave?

10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News

January 28, 2010

Now that the first wave in the Apple iPad crazy-a-thon has past, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of what people are saying about the iPad from the perspective of the news media. You can view this in the spirit of Robert Scoble’s To create or curate?, or catch on that I’m on a [...]

Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall

January 20, 2010

Today The New York Times made it official that they will be introducing a metered model starting in 2011. There is additional information in the NYTco press release, and Jim Romenesko and others have published the staff memo. Since the NYT is giving themselves a year to work out the details before implementing the paid [...]

Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate

January 14, 2010

As the devastation and human tragedy caused by the Haiti earthquake grows, people are flocking to the news media for information, and more importantly to learn ways that they can help. I’ve been impressed by how much attention the media has given to promoting ways that people can make donations. Aid organizations are racing against [...]

PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting

January 11, 2010

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today of the modern news ecosystem, examining a week of news activity in Baltimore, MD. You can get the details from the study itself but I wanted to point out a couple things that caught my attention. Of the stories in Baltimore that [...]