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  • Ad Age/Nat Ives: It's Back: 25 MORE Media People You Should Follow on Twitter
    25 media types worth following on Twitter.
  • Ad Age: Why So Many Media Companies Stumble Globally
    The few news brands that have succeeded, to greater or lesser degrees, arguably include CNN, Bloomberg, People, Thomson Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times and The Economist. Other contenders are the Associated Press, the BBC, ABC, NBC, maybe CBS, National Public Radio, News Corp. and the top U.K. dailies, said Ken Doctor, the newspaper veteran who's now an analyst at Outsell. "If a news-media organization sees itself as covering the wider world, sees it as its foundation, that in and of itself differentiates it from all the local media -- newspapers, TV, radio -- out there," he said. "If, in addition, it has substantial reporting and editing resources, then it can play. The tough part is the part we're in: Who wins the race to ubiquity and can make it pay off?"
  • NYT: If The Globe Were Sold, What Price?
    “The best guesstimate of the real price: a buck. The best of an announced price: between $50 and $100 million,” he wrote in an e-mail message. The devil will be in the details of the obligations that a buyer would assume, he said, adding that “a buck essentially represents a gentleman’s agreement: I take a liability, headache and a distraction off your hands.” He said that the Times Company could hang on to some pension liabilities or other obligations in exchange for a higher purchase price, a number that would give the appearance that it was getting something for the more than $1 billion it paid 16 years ago. He added that no bank would be interested in financing a deal given how other deals have blown up, so “the owner’s own money is immediately at risk.”
  • Economist: It isn’t just newspapers: much of the established news industry is being blown away. Yet news is thriving
    Ken Doctor of Outsell, a research firm, reckons that the Kindle appeals to baby-boomers who would otherwise read a paper magazine or newspaper. The young prefer their iPhones and their aggregators. Indeed, the top four magazines on Kindle, according to Amazon’s website, are the New Yorker, Newsweek, Time and Reader’s Digest. Not much of a youth market there.
  • Forbes: San Diego News Shoot-Out
    "The Union-Tribune is cratering. That opens a hole in the market and the opportunity for some unconventional business models."
  • BizTimes.com: Journal Sentinel faces daunting choices
    “There’s no strategy – this is panic. What we’re likely to see this year (around the country) and what we’ll see in Milwaukee too is (publishers asking) how much they need to cut back and how much they can do to still hold their place in the market. For publishers, it’s about ‘How do we stay alive and stay profitable until we can get to some sort of breathing period?’ (Economic) recovery will not bring back their old business, but it will give them some breathing room.”
  • AP: Threat to shut Boston Globe shows no paper is saf
    The threat to close the paper "sends a very clear message to all employees and unions of surviving newspapers — that this is not business as usual. This is uncharted territory....Newspapers all "have a sword over their heads," said Doctor. If the industry wants to survive, he said, "everyone has to give some blood."
  • Guardian: Seattle mourns the last day of its venerable Post Intelligencer
    "There's a lot less reporting happening, on a national scale. For the 1,500 or so daily newspapers, it's just a matter of getting smaller and smaller."
  • Seattle Times: Seattle's oldest newspaper goes to press for the final time
    "They're bringing the full force of their national relationships and content to bear on Seattle. They [Hearst] could sustain this experiment indefinitely. If it makes a million or loses a million, that's nothing to a company like Hearst."
  • AP: Hearst hopes Web-only Seattle P-I will turn profit
    "It [online-only PI] definitely can make money. They have a head start in terms of the brand and (Web) traffic. They have to run like hell to create a new identity."

What's On My Netvibes

  • Steve Goldstein
    Fellow KR alumnus Steve Goldstein understands the research/info needs of end-use enterprise customers, and he's built a company that is helping satisfy them.
  • Peter Krasilovsky
    Centered on e-commerce of all kinds from Yellow Pages through classifieds and new ad models.
  • Mark Potts
    Mark Potts is an experienced journalist, observer of Internet journalism and an alumnus of the Backfence experiment.
  • John Blossom
    Thoughtful views on a wide-ranging mix of media change.
  • Jay Rosen
    Jay Rosen is a provocateur in the best sense, an NYU journalism professor deeply committed to keeping the press accountable and vibrant in the digital age.
  • David Meerman Scott
    David Scott understands web marketing of digital content. Check out his site and his new book, "Cashing In With Content"

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May 21, 2007

Why All Public Radio Will Be Streamed in the Future

KQED pledge drive, day 143, I believe. Like a lot of public radio listeners, I depend on the lifeline of in-depth news and witty features, and I hate the four weeks of the year or so that when that flow is interrupted by The Pledge Drive. I know it's not public radio's fault. Its "business model" demands the lowly pleading and rote readings of need, a town cryer crying for support. Why do I get the plea, I wonder? I've been paying into the kitty for a decade. Yet with broadcast media, I have to get the same appeal as the freeloader down the block. But what about customization? What about a customized stream, or least two streams? Say one stream for the members -- no hectoring, maybe just a single daily ask to increase giving -- and another for the freeloaders. Then, the freeloaders can end their pain, able to listen to the entirety of programs once they pony up. It's a method websites use -- pay for ad-free pages on Salon for instance -- and one that might work to everyone's advantage. And it's one stream that can't start flowing too soon.

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newsboy

Sorry - to hear about your 4 weeks of pledge drives a year. That is too much.
The public radio station I work for does pledge two weeks a year - and we try to be aware of the disruptions to the listener and, at least, make them less annoying.

And even though "pay for play" on public radio would make my life easier I don't want two streams of Public Radio; 1 for member supporters and 1 for listeners who don't pledge.
There is a slippery slope here - how much do you get for your dollar. Pay per show?
"For only $20 you get the tote bag and get to listen to Fresh Air."

Public Radio is community radio.
People pay for public schools even if they don't have children - because it's good for society.
You pay for public radio (and I hope you do)because it makes a city better.

We want people to know that pledging to public radio isn't going to change the radio station.
We are going to remain strong in the community and continue to air the quality programs the listeners love.
But giving to a public radio station changes the listener.
Now the Public Radio programs sound even better.
It's true - if you doubt me.
Give it a try - give to your public radio and undergo a personal transformation.

Posted by: newsboy | May 21, 2007 at 04:01 PM

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