David is the founder and Director of Spot.Us. He has written for Wired, Seed, Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. While working toward his master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as the editor at newassignment.net, which focused on citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the social… [Read more…]
June 2, 2012
There’s no question the hyperlocal industry is bucking the national unemployment rate. Not only is there an explosion of companies, but the growing digital ad market, plus increased M&A heat and at least $117 million in fundingin April alone seems to be driving a healthy pace of hiring. Especially among those with ambitions to become… [Read more…]
May 31, 2012
When an entrepreneur launches a hyperlocal site, it’s not a cautious, toes-first endeavor — it’s sink or swim in deep, fast-moving waters. New sites launched by bigger networks like AOL’s Patch and the legacies powered by DataSphere begin well prepared with editorial templates, sales guides and turnkey technology. Now, in New Jersey, indie start-ups can… [Read more…]
May 31, 2012
WHAT’S WRONG with newspapers today? The same thing that’s always been wrong with newspapers: the people running them. We’ve become accustomed to bad news from the ever narrowing world of print journalism these uneasy days. Not just bad journalism, but bad business decisions. It’s as if the suits at Corporate HQ—or more likely a committee… [Read more…]
May 29, 2012
Postmedia Network Canada Corp., the owner of the several bigcity dailies across the country, said Monday it will cease publishing the Sunday editions of certain titles and fast-track a shift toward online distribution. The Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal and Ottawa Citizen will stop publishing on Sundays, the Toronto-based company said in internal memos to employees.… [Read more…]
May 28, 2012
He spent six years at Sky News before becoming a stay-at-home father and setting up a hyperlocal website, Saddleworth News, in February 2010. His is a salutary lesson to those who believe they can make a hyperlocal website work… I set up Saddleworth News for two main reasons. The first was pure selfishness. I didn’t… [Read more…]
May 28, 2012
In order to tell the story of Star Wars, George Lucas had to create a new technology company that was powerful enough to tell that story. The same thing has to happen in digital news publishing. That’s the conclusion of Jim Bankoff, CEO and Chairman of Vox Media, whose sites The Verge and SB Nation have… [Read more…]
May 28, 2012
Piano Media, the joint web news payment system operating in Slovakia and Slovenia, is preparing to launch in a third, larger market this summer, after recently taking funding for globalisation. “The third country we are launching in July will be much larger than the two we already have combined,” CEO Tomas Bella told me during… [Read more…]
May 27, 2012
Muchas críticas se han enarbolado en contra de The Huffington Post, el diario digital estadounidense que tiene un número reducido de redactores de planta y muchos blogueros que escriben sin retribución económica. El medio, creado por Arianna Huffington, ha ganado un Pulitzer, ha superado en número de usuarios a otros como The Washington Post y… [Read more…]
May 25, 2012
PANORAMA ARGENTINO – Mediante una cinematográfica acción callejera, al mejor estilo de la peor época de la Dictadura Militar, el Gobierno logró el miércoles pasado frenar la subida del valor del dólar en el mercado paralelo desde los $ 5,62 del martes a $ 5,50 al cierre de la jornada. Policías, agentes de la Prefectura… [Read more…]
May 17, 2012
Newspapers continue to dominate the local online media scene, making up 16 of the top 25 local online properties, according to The Media Audit’s annual local multimedia report. But television stations are gaining ground, the study found. Three of the top five properties and five of the top 10 were TV sites. Story continues after… [Read more…]
May 5, 2012
by John Bethune I’m sure there were at least a few journalists who took offense at Gap marketing chief Seth Farbman telling an audience earlier this week that marketers are more honest than journalists. In his former life as a journalist, Farbman said, “I always had the sense that I was creating information, but the… [Read more…]
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