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Online Activism 1.7: Lessons Learned in Copenhagen

Kevin Grandia | Posted 12.27.2009 | Technology

Read More: Social Media, Internet, Copenhagen 2009, Online Campaigning, Online Activism, New Media, Activism 2.0, Blogging, cop15, Old Media, Technology News
Kevin Grandia

While social media played a role like never before in the run-up and during Copenhagen, there remain issues that must be overcome before activism fully utilizes the power of social media.

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Joe Foote's Plan to Save Journalism

Al Eisele | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: University of Oklahoma, Journalism School, Old Media, New Media, Carl Albert, Oklahoma, Journalism, Joe Foote, Gaylord College, Media News
Al Eisele

While we ink-stained wretches agonize over the uncertain future of journalism, Joe Foote and the University of Oklahoma are trying to make sure that it survives and thrives in the 21st century.

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The Irrelevancy of Network News

Judith Ellis | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Rams, Rush Limbaugh, Hot Air Balloon, Breaking News, Balloon Boy, Old Media, New Media, Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, Nfl, Wolf Blitzer, The Ed Show, Media News
Judith Ellis

Arianna was right to question the networks about their "balloon boy" coverage. Does anybody really wonder why old media is becoming more irrelevant, while new media continues to pave a new path?

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The Boston Globe's Future Unclear As Sale Deadline Passes

nytimes.com | RICHARD PEREZ-PENA | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Newspapers, Boston Globe, Old Media Death Watch, Death of Print, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Platinum Equity, Newspaper Industry, Old Media, Media News

Prospective buyers of The Boston Globe faced a Friday deadline for submitting firm bids, but it remained unclear what would happen next -- or even whe...

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Top "10" Green Twitter Tweeters (Who You Should Follow)

Waylon Lewis | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Summer Rayne Oakes, Twitter, Mnn, Green, Web, Old Media, Community, Media, Treehugger, Ecofashion, Shea Gunther, New Media, Huffington Post, Waylon Lewis, David Burdick, Elephant Journal, Communication, Media News
Waylon Lewis

Just three active months on Twitter later, I've gained 4,900 followers -- and, more importantly, Twitter is among my web site's top ten traffic sources.

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Reliable Sources (and the People Who Love them)

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Michelle Obama, Perez Hilton, Economics, Opinions, New York Times, Old Media, Death of Media, Big Thinkers, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Newspaper Business, Media News
Richard Laermer

I'd rather the Times continue publication of the weekend City section than employ Krugman and other columnists to tell me things I (normally) already agree with.

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Jobless But Not Jokeless in Journalism

Dave Astor | Posted 04.30.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Journalists, Newspapers, President Obama, Editorial Cartoons, Wireless Connection, Old Media, Newspaper Reporters, Alexander the Great, Wage Freeze, Journalism, Layoffs, Egyptian Pharoahs, Online, Iraq War, Journos, Blogging, Time Machine, Comedy News
Dave Astor

Many Americans don't care that newspapers are hemorrhaging jobs, but laid-off journalists wandering the streets could become a quality-of-life issue.

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I've Decided to Move to Print... for a Day

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Boston, Geoff Canada, Metro Newspapers, Print, New Media, Harlem Children's Zone, Philadelphia, Metro, New York, Old Media, Media News
Arianna Huffington

When Metro US asked me to be guest editor of their daily newspapers in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, it immediately reawakened my early love affair with print, going back to my school years in Athens when my father was a newspaper editor and paper after paper that he ran kept going out of business -- but that's another story. It was great fun working with the Metro staff picking which stories to feature. Here are links to some of the stories we selected, and my take on them. READ MORE What If Jon Stewart, Instead of John King, Interviewed Dick Cheney Someone needs to kidnap King and take him to a journalism deprogramming center -- preferably one run by Jon Stewart and his team. READ MORE

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Colorado Congressman: Demise Of Old Media Mostly For The Better

AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Old Media, News Media, Rocky Mountain News, Jared Polis, Media News

DENVER — A Colorado congressman told bloggers that they and other new media are responsible for the demise of the Rocky Mountain News and other ...

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Why America Needs a Jade Goody

Michael Wolff | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Jade Goody Cervical Cancer, Britain, Reality TV, Class Warfare, Media, Jade Goody, Old Media, Media News
Michael Wolff

How come the Brits are far crazier about reality TV than we are? You would have thought we'd have had a monopoly on outsized vulgarity -- but we've been so seriously trumped.

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Journalism Does Not Need To Be Saved, Newspapers Do

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Editorials, Tribune Company, Chicago Tribune Bankruptcy, Political Debates, Old Media Death Watch, Magazines, Technology, Reporting, Media News, The Internet, Wall Street Journal, Old Media, Old Media vs. New Media, Micropayments, Journalism, Television, Websites, Political Writing, Trivia, Op-Ed, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Death of Newspapers, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, World Wide Web, Walter Isaacson, Economy, Newspapers, Saving Journalism, Media News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

I see editorial writing in U.S. mainstream media, with a very few exceptions, as propaganda deprived of intellectual reflection. The public senses this as well, distrusts the media instinctively.

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Why Television Is An Old Media Medium That Still Shines

New York Times | RANDALL STROSS | Posted 03.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, New Media, Old Media, Television Resilient, Media News

And yet television stands out as the one old-media business with surprising resilience. Though we are spending a record amount of time online, includi...

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Jay Rosen And Glenn Greenwald On Whether Old Media Is Sustaining Old Politics (VIDEO)

PBS.org | Posted 03.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Old Media, Media, Jay Rosen, Bill Moyers, Glenn Greenwald, Media News

Is the old media sustaining the old politics? News and analysis with NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen and political journalis...

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Con Games: Time For Newspapers Is Past

Michael Conniff | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Aspen Institute, Micro-Transactions, Newspapers, Web, Media, Time Magazine, Walter Isaacson, Old Media vs. New Media, Old Media Death Watch, Death of Print, New Media, Death of Newspapers, Old Media, Media News
Michael Conniff

Print publications in general don't have a direct relationship with the individual customer. They don't know who their readers are and they don't know what they want.

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Where Is The New York Times Going?

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Gray Lady, New York Times, Newspaper, Media, Carlos Slim, Red Sox, News, The Times, Sulzberger, Old Media vs. New Media, Old Media Death Watch, The New York Times, Ochs-Sulzbergers, Old Media, Media News
Ashley Rindsberg

Today, the paper runs the most sophisticated, resource-rich, and usable news website in the US (and probably the world) but is bleeding cash and readers. Why?

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A Bold, Old Idea for Saving Journalism

Walter Isaacson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Newspapers, Bloggers, Amazon Kindle, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, Amazon, Old Media, Television, Kindle, Old Media Death Watch, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Technology, World Wide Web, Myspace, Blogging, Amazon.com Kindle, Magazines, Citizen Journalists, Steve Jobs, Napster, Paypal, Old Media vs. New Media, Jeff Bezos, Citizen Journalism, Aspen Institute, Websites, Death of Newspapers, Apple iTunes, Amazon.com, Itunes, New York Times, Videos, Media News
Walter Isaacson

I hope that 2009 will be the year when creators of valuable content start charging and readers begin paying for the journalism they want.

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Newspaper Editors To Generation Y: Drop Dead

Diane Tucker | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Tim Luckhurst, Myspace, Chris Freiberg, Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish, The Guardian, Msn, The New Republic, Recession, Forbes Magazine, Death of Newspapers, William Howard Russell, National Buy a Newspaper Day, Diane Tucker, Facebook, George Steer, Newspaper Industry, Silicon Alley Insider, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Peter Kafka, The Atlantic, Watergate, Huffington Post, Old Media vs. New Media, Old Media, Old Media Death Watch, Media News
Diane Tucker

Doesn't the best online journalism still depend on old media outlets? What happens when we lose all those print reporters, the ones who file history's first draft?

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Why Old Media Can't Deny New Media

Ari Herzog | Posted 02.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Janis Krums, Television, Newspapers, Twitter, Online Media, US Airways Crash, New Media, Aviation, Media News, Journalism, The Internet, Us Airways Hudson River, US Airways Plane Crashes, US Airways Crash Photos, Plane Crash Hudson River, Hudson River, Plane Crash in Hudson River, Old Media, Iphone, Internet, New Jersey, Old Media Death Watch, Hudson River Plane Crash, Technology, Hudson River Crash, Citizen Journalists, Old Media vs. New Media, US Airways, Citizen Journalism, Tweets, Plane in Hudson River, Portland Oregon, Media News
Ari Herzog

Twitter is a subset of new media. Your evening news and morning papers aren't quite there, lacking internet technologies, commenting, and synchronous interactivity.

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The Final Jack Myers Media Business Report. It's Time to Get Into the Game.

Jack Myers | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business

Read More: The Internet, Old Media vs. New Media, Web, Websites, Media, Business, TV Advertising, Old Media, Internet, Advertising, Online Advertising, Old Media Death Watch, Online, New Media, Facebook Advertising, Technology, Business News
Jack Myers

Our industry is faced with an advertising depression, a rapid acceleration of media fragmentation, and audience shifts to non ad-supported media.

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Is the Axe Headed for Newspapers?

Marisa Treviño | Posted 01.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Newspapers, Old Media vs. New Media, The Death of Newspapers, Old Media Death Watch, Death of Newspapers, News Industry, Media, Newspaper Industry, Old Media, Media News
Marisa Treviño

When I hear industry professionals say that people don't like to read these days, I have to wonder just how detached they are from what's going on in the world.

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Newspapers Still Viable

Doug Schoen | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Newspapers, Traditional Media, Journalism, Old Media, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Doug Schoen

So what can newspapers do? Focus on their credibility to continue to draw a quality audience, which in turn helps draw in advertisers. And then innovate. And do it faster than they're doing it now.

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: China Milk Scandal, Journalistic Bias, Yao Ming, Old Media vs. New Media, Chinese Culture, Food Politics, Old Media Death Watch, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, China, New Media, Bill Nye the Science Guy, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Old Media, Media News
Chi Tung

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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Laura Ingraham: "The Old Media Blew It!"

Huffington Post | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media

Read More: New Media Panel, New Media, Old Media, HuffPost New Media Panel, Laura Ingraham, Media News

At HuffPost's new media panel at the RNC, Laura Ingraham declared: "The old media blew it", and, as a result, the media landscape will never be the sa...

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Selling Your Old Media Now: Internet Whiz Says To Get Out

DealBook | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Television Industry, Newspapers, Marc Andreesen, Looking Around the Corner to the Future, Film Industry, Old Media Death Watch, Sun Valley, Newspaper Industry, Old Media, Business News

Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, who now runs the social networking site Ning, kept up his death watch for old media Wednesday morning. In a morning...

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The Great Failed Twitter Debate of 2008

Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Twitter Debate, Old Media, New Media, Obama, Twitter, Mccain, 2008 Presidential Election, Home News
Natasha Vargas-Cooper

Typical: old dogs, new tricks. I know folks are trying in earnest to get some fusion going between the presidential election and social media, but this type of trash misses the point entirely.

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