Posted by Hal Varian, Chief EconomistIt is widely recognized that the news industry is facing financial difficulties, but there is little agreement about the source of those difficulties or what can be done about them. The debate about the role of...
Google’s economist-in-chief, Hal Varian, was the keynote speaker this morning at the Federal Trade Commission’s second round of hearings on the future of journalism. (The study is entitled “How will journalism survive the internet age?” Round 1 wa...
What is the state of online advertising? Not good, according to this Pew report: The prospect of an economic model for journalism online made only limited progress in 2009, even as the industry's eagerness to find new Internet-based revenue source...
Just a few weeks after NYT Co chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and president and CEO Janet Robinson discussed the company's forthcoming online meter system at paidContent's recent conference on the subject, the two executives took the...
Newspaper advertising revenue plunged an astounding 45% over the last three years forcing publishers to make drastic reductions to the actual size of the print edition, to the space devoted to news to the ranks of employees. Those findings are the...
Ever wonder how a site like Talking Points Memo can run AP content without an official relationship with the wire service? The answer is a site called Mochila, a syndication platform launched back in 2006. About 1,200 websites use the platform, cr...
Today I am testifying at an FCC hearing on “Serving the Public Interest in the Digital Era.” The purpose of the workshop is to explore: A brief history and overview of policies involving “public interest” requirements for commercial media and tele...
Just a few weeks after NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and president and CEO Janet Robinson discussed the company’s forthcoming online meter system at paidContent’s conference on the subject, the two execs took the ...
The Project for Excellence in Journalism is out with its annual "State of the News Media" report, chronicling three of the four most important aspects of news today: what's being lost, what's currently replacing it and how audiences are faring in ...
The Project for Excellence in Journalism is out with its annual "State of the News Media" report, chronicling three of the four most important aspects of news today: what's being lost, what's currently replacing it and how audiences are faring in ...
TechCrunch has an interview with Marc Andreessen in which the Internet boy wonder advises media companies to “burn the boats,” an analogy to the instructions Cortés supposedly gave his army upon landing in Mexico nearly 500 years ago in order to i...
