As their printed editions’ circulations decline, the publishers of newspapers like to conflate daily print and monthly online readerships. They add their newspaper’s daily circulation number to the numbers of people who visit their newspaper’s Web site at least once per month. This conflated total purportedly shows the total readership of their [...]
I am 54 years old today and admit to feeling infuriated by the news industries — notably the newspaper industry.
Ten years ago, when many newspaper companies were reaping record profits despite their declining print circulations and when their Web sites each year were doubling in numbers of monthly users, a few pioneers [...]
My 'New Things' Corollary of Moore's Law
“So, when is all this change going to end?” – Newspaper editor (2009)
“Will what I’m learning here at school about the Web, Facebook, and Twitter last me a lifetime?” – Journalism student (2009)
I’m constantly amazed [...]
I spent most of the (northern hemisphere’s) summer in South Africa at Rhodes University’s Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership and working on three projects:
Teaching the New Media Business to a class of 20 graduate students. Teaching an executive education seminar about the same topic to a dozen South African media executives, [...]Similar to how the wireless features of Amazon.com’s Kindle devices don’t work outside North America, too many North Americans who work for media companies don’t realize that even the newest Kindles are already obsolete and that the future of e-paper isn’t for reading books, magazines, and newspapers.
I write this because [...]
I advocate that media companies need to implement Individuated technologies for publishing and broadcasting if those companies want to succeed. Individuation can be described as customization on a mass scale.
Here is an example of individuated publishing from a project that I doing in South Africa this year. Home [...]
In my university classes, I tell my students there are only two things they need to know about the widely misunderstood and overhyped terms Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0.
First, there are no decimal points. After all, there is no Web 1.7 or Web 2.3. The real terms should [...]
Let’s clear the confusion about these terms:
New Media is a proper noun and has a specific meaning. Yet new media isn’t a proper noun and instead colloquially refers to any media that is newer than another. The difference between New Media and new media is crucial, and it isn’t just about [...]
Speech to 228 Masters Degree Candidates
Graduate Convocation
Newhouse School of Public Communications
Syracuse University
July 6, 2009
You will expect me to tell you that you are special. It’s a standard thing to say in a masters’ class convocation speech.
Indeed, if I told you that you are a special [...]
Dean Singleton Addressing Individuated Newspaper Conference
Today and tomorrow I’m in Washington, D.C., attending the third annual Individual Newspapers Conference. Although I’m a bit too busy at it to write anything reflective about it yet, here are some highlights:
Dean Singleton, the founder [...]I’ve overwhelmingly tempted to quote words written for the Michael Corleone character by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola in their 1990 movie and novel The Godfather III:
“Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.”
Except that I’m no gangster, and I’ve somehow always expected to [...]
I’m spending much of the Southern Hemisphere’s winter (Northern Hemisphere’s summer) in the Republic of South Africa where I’m helping that country’s leading journalism school in what I hope will be a notable advance in how journalism and news publishing are practiced in the 21st Century. I’ve not previously written [...]
For the next three weeks, I’ll be lecturing on Digital Media Management at the Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership, at Rhodes University’s School of Journalism and Media Studies, in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. These lectures will be based upon the New Media Business graduate school course [...]
Despite its complication, a game of chess is basically a three-act play. So too is our current, transitional era for media companies. Each has an opening, a middlegame, and an endgame. My latest Digital Publishing biweekly column at ClickZ.com tells where in the game media companies are.
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Ryan Scholin guest-lecturing in my New Media Business class at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communicatinos
My biweekly Digital [...]
Photo courtesy Scurzuzu@flickr.com
I continue to teach New Media Business classes at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Tuesday will be the first day of a new semster and new students. In September, the school opened this graduate school course to upperclassmen, too. It was oversubscribed last semester, with students [...]
I continue to teach New Media Business classes at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Tuesday will be the first day of a new semster and new students. In September, the school opened this graduate school course to upperclassmen, too. It was oversubscribed last semester, with students turned [...]
If you work in New Media, the answer should be obvious. Nevertheless, there are still many newspapers that don't understand why. Some merely offer online video as a novelty featured under the title 'Multimedia.'
Video news should be an integral part of any newspapers online news efforts now that [...]
If you work in New Media, the answer should be obvious. Nevertheless, there are still many newspapers that don’t understand why. Some merely offer online video as a novelty featured under the title ‘Multimedia.’
Video news should be an integral part of any newspapers online news efforts now that online [...]
Abel Girón Morales (1979-2008)
Shot from a crossbow, the plastic and metal arrow struck him in the chest, shattering one of his major arteries. The 29 year-old victim, a graphic layout artist, had left home his home on the outskirts of the city, was walking [...]
Ian Alexander Davies, 49, of Topcroft, Norfolk, U.K., a husband, father of two, newspaper and magazine New Media expert, and an ardent private pilot, died Wednesday when the two-person aerobatic biplane he was aboard collided with a crop-spraying tractor as the biplane was approaching the runway at [...]
(Kegs photo by Jeramey Jannene via Flickr. No endorsement by him of this posting is implied.)
Do the executives who manage America's major daily newspaper publishing companies think they know what they're doing? They'll assure you the answer is yes. But how obvious does the evidence have [...]
(Kegs photo by Jeramey Jannene via Flickr. No endorsement by him of this posting is implied.)
Do the executives who manage America’s major daily newspaper publishing companies think they know what they’re doing? They’ll assure you the answer is yes. But how obvious does the evidence have to [...]
In case anyone reading this is interested, the Newspaper Department at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, seeks an experienced journalist with strong multimedia skills to join a department committed to preserving core journalistic competencies while teaching students to tell stories in online media. Work in [...]
In case anyone reading this is interested, the Newspaper Department at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, seeks an experienced journalist with strong multimedia skills to join a department committed to preserving core journalistic competencies while teaching students to tell stories in online media. Work in the [...]
In May, when after a year of teaching graduate school courses, I wrote a ClickZ.com column lamenting how resistant to change many media schools are about New Media, I was amused when my friend Jeff Jarvis tried to hijack my column and turn it into an advertisement [...]
In May, when after a year of teaching graduate school courses, I wrote a ClickZ.com column lamenting how resistant to change many media schools are about New Media, I was amused when my friend Jeff Jarvis tried to hijack my column and turn it into an advertisement for [...]
Defining what the term New Media means and its potential. Ten minutes from a New Media Business conducted at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on September 3, 2008, by Adjunct Professor and Senior Consultant about Executive Education in New Media Vin Crosbie.
Defining what the term New Media means and its potential. Ten minutes from a New Media Business conducted at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on September 3, 2008, by Adjunct Professor and Senior Consultant about Executive Education in New Media Vin Crosbie.
In the second part of my essay, Transforming American Newspapers, I mentioned several corollary effects that occur when the sheer number of Media vehicles radically increases. However, I inadvertently omitted two other corollary effects.
The primary business model of most Mass Media vehicles (newspapers, magazines, broadcast programs, etc.) is to [...]
In the second part of my essay, Transforming American Newspapers, I mentioned several corollary effects that occur when the sheer number of Media vehicles radically increases. However, I inadvertently omitted two other corollary effects.
The primary business model of most Mass Media vehicles (newspapers, magazines, broadcast programs, etc.) is to attract [...]
Expert at estimating and forecasting the amount of unexpected chores my clients might face when completing tasks, I can woefully underestimate and overlook the unexpected when I'm trying to complete my own. I'm now more than two weeks past when I promised to post the third part of my [...]
Expert at estimating and forecasting the amount of unexpected chores my clients might face when completing tasks, I can woefully underestimate and overlook the unexpected when I’m trying to complete my own. I’m now more than two weeks past when I promised to post the third part of my four [...]
If the major reason for the American daily newspaper industry's demise were its stories contained too many dangling participles, then the industry could more easily comprehend its situation than instead hearing that the reason was it had violated the' [...]
I'm back! I'd taken a year off for reflection.
After concluding that no daily newspaper executive in North America knows where their industry is headed, I went back to school approximately this time last year. I'd hoped that news media academics might have the answers. What I found was that,' [...]
Ignorance isn't bliss to the dying. Witness the pathos of American daily newspaper companies. Most have finally begun to realize that the deterioration of their businesses isn't cyclical but grave. Yet few, if any, understand why. Almost all grasp for the reasons.
Some attribute their grave condition to advertisers suddenly [...]
[My opening keynote speech at the Second Annual Global Conference on Individuated Newspapers, Denver, Colorado, June 26, 2008]
Some of you here know me. Since 1993 when I began working full-time in newspaper new media, I've given approximately 100 speeches at conferences. I've given speeches at E&P, WAN, Ifra, [...]
Thanks, David! Two linguistic notes before I begin.
First, please forgive my Yank accent. My great-grandfather Crosbie, who was born in London, would wince at it.
Second, doe anyone here speak Chinese? I ask because, after people who [...]
If you work in the media industries and are serious, ask yourself this questions right now: 'Where should I be working to have the most beneficial affect on my industry?'
If you aren't working there now, why aren't you?
Is it because of money? Are you working where you are because that [...]
"But Mr. Hiller said the paper was investing as much as it could, especially in its Web site, and the cuts were nothing more than an acceptance of reality.'Last year, our operating cash flow went down by about 20 percent,' he said.
'Can you solve the newspaper industry's problems by [...]
Hope and faith aren't business plans.
In an article entitled Online Salvation, American Journal Review, examines the continuing delusion among American newspaper executives that their industry's troubles are somehow 'cyclical,' that because newspapers were people's major source of news for centuries then newspapers will somehow continue to be that major [...]
Ole Werring, TV manager of Dabladet of Oslo, Norway, described to Ifra's annual Beyond the Printed Word online publishing conference how his newspaper has integrated video into its traditionally text news site.
Dagbladet initially began offering video on its site in 1999 but [...]
At Ifra's annual Beyond the Printed Word conference this afternoon, Atsushi Sato, deputy manager of the Digital Media Division of The Asahi Shimbun of Japan described how his newspaper operates its sites for mobile phone users.
His newspaper, which has a daily [...]
"People live locally," Ian Davies, director fo business development of the British regional newspaper publishing company Archant Ltd., this afternoon reminded attendees of Ifra's annual Beyond the Printed Word online pubishing conference. He said a recent survey by the (UK) Newspaper Society [...]
At Ifra's Beyond the Printed Word conference this afternoon, Rowan Barnett described how his monthly newspaper has a circulation of 100,000 without publishing a website or in print.
He is editor-in-chief of The Avastar, a virtual newspaper that circulates in the virtual world [...]
How what are the challenges in a popular tabloid creating user-generated content? Danny Dagan described some this morning at Ifra's Beyond the Printed Word conference in Dublin.
Dagan is head of online communities at News Group Digital, which puts online London's The Sun and [...]
At Ifra's Beyond the Printed Word conference in Dublin, Matthew Buckland, general manager of the Mail & Guardian Online of South Africa, has given a presentation about 'Integrating Web 2.0 tools into news sites.' He previously in his own blog [...]
