Media Industry

On Piracy and Privacy

Greg Goldberg | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Commercial Media, Participation Industry, Media Industry, Sopa Pipa, Wikipedia SOPA, Sopa, Technology News
Greg Goldberg

When Google institutes a privacy overhaul in March, what are 350 million Gmail users to do? In the battle against SOPA/PIPA, Internet users got a glimpse of how powerful the participation industry has become.

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News for all the People: An Unflattering Portrait of Race and American Media

Art Brodsky | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Racism, Newspapers, Radio-Industry, News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, Mcclatchy, American Media, Knight-Ridder, Media Industry, Books News
Art Brodsky

These are the stories that seldom get told in the sweep of media history in this country. While books are written about the Hearst dynasty, or the Medills and Pattersons, press barons of their time, an entire vital chapter history has largely been given short shrift, until now.

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WATCH: Tamron Hall On Being A Reporter

Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Color Barrier, Msnbc, Television Anchors, Media Industry, Media Diversity, Msnbc Anchor, Blacks in Media, Tamron Hall, Black Voices News

Breaking down the color barrier in various industries seems to be a common thread among many African American professionals. For MSNBC news anchor Tam...

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The Virtual Breadline

Tom Davis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Media Unemployment, Future of Journalism, Media, Future of Media, Journalism, Media Industry, patch.com, Brick Township-New Jersey, Jersey Shore Patch News, jerseyshorenews.org, Jersey Shore News, Healthy Living News
Tom Davis

The Internet was supposed to make their lives better. Instead, it has taken away their job. Now, ironically, they use the Internet as their vehicle to vent, request and even beg and plead.

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Media Companies Hiring Again

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Jobs, Media News, Media Industry, Bloomberg News, New York Media, Wall Street Journal, New York, New York City, Media Market, New York News

After what's been an endless year for the city's ink-stained wretches, there's something thawing besides our grim winter: the job market. For the past...

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Audiences Don't Pay for Content

Mark McLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Media, Digital Media, Media Industry, Online Newspapers, Ipod, Kindle, Online Advertising, Digital Content, Technology, Media News
Mark McLaughlin

The media industry needs to get healthy but we won't get there if we think about the Internet as the reason that consumers have stopped paying for content.

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ABC News: Does Diane Sawyer Get a Flip Camera?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

Along with the great and convulsive changes that have come to the news business these last few years, here's another big one: The ABC network has anno...

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A Little Progress at the Chicago Media Future Conference

Ryan Blitstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Journalism Industry, Chicago Journalism, Future of Journalism, Journalism Innovation, Media, Media Industry, Chicago News Media, Chicago Media Future Conference, Chicago News
Ryan Blitstein

It's 2009, and the people in the room are relatively sophisticated -- don't waste their time asking five people to define "what news is."

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Prof. Schumpeter Comes to Hollywood

Chris Albrecht and John Penney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Academy Awards, Joseph Schumpeter, TV Viewership, Innovation, Media, Media Industry, Entrepreneurship, Media News
Chris Albrecht and John Penney

Dr. Joseph Schumpeter will never be the subject of a Hollywood-style biopic, but his ideas on the rise and fall of industries form the basis for the script the media business finds itself following today.

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