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Why newspapers are losing subscribers: “failure of the last mile”

by David | Aug 18, 2014 | newspaper crisis, Newspapers

Web-native companies strive to eliminate “transactional friction.” Newspapers? Not so much. I’ve been a subscriber to the LA Times for as long as I’ve lived in Los Angeles, and I’ve watched as the big beast evolved from a gray morass of...

State of Media in East Africa: “Mover and Shakers” Interview for AfroFM

by David | May 28, 2012 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Video

UPDATE: The first video below was erroneously a duplicate of video #3. I blame the shoddy connection I had – I am thrilled that the videos made it up to YouTube at all, frankly, and it took me an hour and several tried to get this post to publish, so I had some...

Jarvis & Weaver’s $1,000 Bet: Kum-bay-yah in 4, 3, 2 …

by David | Dec 27, 2008 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch

Been a while between posts here – I’ve had writing deadlines, presentation deadlines and a dauntingly ambitious editing task to try to manage.  Anyway, despite this being the Christmas season, oft-assailed  gadfly & jilted lover of newspapers...

Viral Video Hits: Campaign ’08 Edition

by David | Nov 2, 2008 | new media, Online Video, Politics & New Media

Now that we’re finally approaching the end of a presidential campaign season that started way back in May 2007 … and as an aside, allow me to observe that it used to be that declaring for the presidency the December before the Iowa caucuses/New Hampshire...

What Automakers (and Newspapers?) Can Learn from the iPhone

by David | Jul 16, 2008 | Digital Migration, journalism, Lemmings, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

This is going to have to be another “quick hit” because I’m struggling with Premiere Pro’s shakiness on the Mac platform – and yeah, I know, I should be using Final Cut Pro, but I’m trying to once again use myself as a guinea pig to...
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