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A private equity firm focused on media predicts broadcast TV will surpass newspapers as the largest ad medium in 2008 and three years later “total Internet ad spend” will surpass broadcast TV.

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Twitter is happy to proclaim it’s ready to replace the Associated Press when it comes to breaking news. Twitter users beat AP by nine minutes with news of this week’s Southern California earthquake. While the quality or depth of the work may not be comparable to that of professional journalists, many people enjoy immediacy and [...]

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Twittering is getting from mainstream media buzz from places like USA Today. When a movement gets attention from such places, it often means it is beginning to move out of the techie-junkie realm into the field of vision of your average internet user.

The social networking site growing so fast that it is wrestling with the [...]

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Classified ads in American newspapers are quickly evaporating. So far this year, they are off 25%. At the same time, Craigslist is booming. Housing ads are up 85% from a year ago. Rental ads are up 120%. Even real estate are ahead 70%. , Craigslist charges a fee for employment ads in 10 [...]

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MediaStorm is a small company of just six people. But the “multimedia production company”s is having an impact on photojournalism by taking still images, video or audio tape, and then looking for a story to fit the material. After adding a narrative, you have a group of short chapters that do not follow any particular [...]

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Here’s a visual aid for feeling the pain in the newspaper industry of recent layoffs.  As management searches for a bottom, it is likely the cuts will be deeper than necessary just to make sure of a bounce back in the right direction. Problem is, until you find the point at which you are making [...]

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There’s a bill in Congress that would provide protection for journalists from naming those anonymous sources they come up with from time-to-time. Former newspaper guy Carter Wood thinks it’s a bad idea and he explains why in a Forbes article. Wood suggests the law could be used as a cover for illegal activity. Whether the [...]

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Is having to go to just one place (Google News) for searching any news (Thanks or no thanks to RSS feeds) help live the news providers for long. We definitely have seen the ad revenue’s failing for most news agencies. And recently Wall Street journal assessed Washington Post’s online experiment a failure.

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USA Today founder Al Neurharth offered a defense of newspapers in the Friday edition of the paper. He tells us the print industry has a “bright future”. Neurharth bases this on a few circulation figures. What he fails to mention is that these are the exceptions that prove the rule. Neurharth gives circulation numbers for [...]

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NPR’s Marketplace ran a story this week called Newspapers seek new business models. The idea: Newspapers are no longer in the newspaper business but in the information business. Gannett’s attempt to generate new revenue streams is leading its reporters to spend time “updating a blog. Assigning videos. Writing TV scripts” and “producing glossy magazines”. It’s [...]

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