The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the Internet because it is fighting the link and the link is the basis of the Internet. From Richard Perez-Pena's New York Times story today:

Tom Curley, The A.P.'s president and chief executive, said the company's position was that even...

The New York Times has accepted free stories from ProPublica. It has endorsed a journalist getting help from the public via Spot.US to underwrite a story that might appear at NYTimes.com. And Poynter's Bill Mitchell says the paper is even wondering about foundation support for its work...

Mike Masnick on techdirt points us to some dangerous and incomplete thinking from Judge Richard Posner on his blog. At the bottom, Posner writes:

Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without...

An alarm went off on some desk at the New York Times business section: Oh-oh, time to slam blogs again. But the latest assault reveals as much about The Times and the culture of classical journalism as it does about bloggers. Like the millennial clash of business models in...

I have been painting myself in a corner -- or rather, I fear that media and journalism are:

I've been arguing that charging for content online - news content - is futile and that print as a vehicle for advertising and a source of profit is unsustainable. Thus, online...

Warren Buffett would not buy newspapers "at any price." According to PaidContent, Buffett said today:

The current environment is accentuating problem in newspapers -- but it's not the basic cause. Charlie and I read five a day. We'll never give them up. We would not buy them at any...

The Newspaper Association of America is meeting in San Diego this week and they're preaching up at their own choir loft with angry, self-righteous fire and brimstone about their plight. They need to hear a new message, a blunt message from the outside. Here's the speech I...

The AP reports that Huffington Post is announcing the creation of a $1.75 million fund with various donors to pay for investigative reporting. First target: the economy.

This, I've long held, is where foundation and public support will enter into the new ecosystem of journalism: not by...

"Criticism of CNBC is way out of line," NBC President Jeff Zucker said at the BusinessWeek media summit at McGraw-Hill's headquarters today. "Just because someone who mocks authority says something doesn't make it so." It sounds as if he's trying to beat up Jon Stewart for bloodying his boy, Cramer....

At the end of my Davos week, I finally saw tiny notes of hope - faint LEDs at the end of a long tunnel - and they came not from the business, government, and journalistic leaders here but instead from technologists, entrepreneurs, and educators.

I ran a session in...

The media machers at Davos got together yesterday with three economists to ask what went wrong in financial coverage that did not warn of the crisis.

Like others leaders from other segments of society here in the meeting of the machers, they did not don hairshirts. I believe that...

Maybe in some session at Davos or over some dinner table, someone's discussing substantial ideas and plans for ending the mess. But I haven't been there. Instead, I was in a CNBC debate this morning as representatives from business, government, markets, and multilaterals were supposed to argue the point. And...

The crisis the world is suffering through now is a failure of leadership. The leaders of the world are in Davos. If the world is watching what happens here this week, it will be to hear solutions and see responsibility and accountability. I'd say that's not off to a great...

David Westphal reports an important and historic crossing of the Rubicon for a major newspaper, recounting a discussion with LA Times editor Russ Stanton at USC: "Stanton said the Times' Web site revenue now exceeds its editorial payroll costs."

I've long been asked by newspaper people - as a...

In the snarkoff recently about my holding journalists to account for the state and fate of journalism, commenters asked with good reason when I say journalism will be done, how we're going to watch the government, and where the money will come from. I don't have answers to those...

Sorry, Arianna, but your much vaunted presidential mash-up debate has been made into a pathetic insult to the voters thanks to Yahoo's decision -- as reported by Wired.com -- not to allow us to remix the raw video. I urge you and Slate to force Yahoo to...

I'm as much of a media wonk as anybody, but the Times outwonked me today devoting an entire story to The Wall Street Journal changing the name of a section from Pursuits to Weekend.

Who could possibly give a damn? And why would they?

What's even more amusing...

It does my democratic heart good to see the system work, as it did yesterday when an appeals court defended the First Amendment in the face of the FCC's "arbitrary and capricious" attempt to punish Fox for the fleeting expletives.

The most entertaining aspect of the decision: The...

On HuffingtonPost, there has been much coverage of the debate over NBC's release and airing of some of the Virginia Tech murderer's multimedia manifesto and Joan Blades and Richard Gizbert come out squarely here against releasing them, arguing that if we air those images, the terrorist...

ParkRidge47, aka Phillip de Vellis, the guy who made that Hillary attack ad and who was unmasked by reporting by Arianna Huffington et al, is interviewed on video by YouTube's editor of news and politics,...