Sometimes it’s good to get perspective. Approaching the newspaper business from the point of view of an economist is exceedingly interesting. In this post, I present a the thoughts of a college student economist and my summary reactions.
Continue readingThere’s been a growing feeling that the AP is not our friend in the media industry, but this week, that feeling seemed to bubble over. We’ve got some rough numbers to show that they’re not helping us, and with the rise of ESPN local sites, the AP is rapidly loosing it’s marketplace. I don’t know if I’m ready to sign their death sentence yet, they do seem to have some smart people working for ‘em (I look to the New Model for News study and their iPhone app). Yet, it’s painfully obvious (after the youtube fiasco) that the AP is a classic case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing.
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Mobile is the present and the future landscape for the media industry. In this part of the Nieman Labs series of excerpts from an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Alan Murray talks about their new iPhone app.They’ve got it all wrong, by modeling their app after a print model, but I’ve got a better idea. Continue reading