During our recent Digital Publishing Summit in New York, I had the opportunity to slip aside and take a few moments to interview Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and more recently a founder of Journalism Online, a group created to enable news publishers to generate new revenues from readers and distributors [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Newspaper'
Interviews with Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal
January 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: News and Media · Newspaper · journalism
Mercury News Reaches Out For Help
September 14th, 2009 · 5 Comments
I’ve always enjoyed Mike Cassidy, one of a seemingly dwindling number of columnists at the San Jose Mercury News, the self-proclaimed newspaper of Silicon Valley. So I had to respect his cover story column in Sunday’s paper entitled It’s Time For a Frank Talk with Readers about The Mercury News. Excerpt: Newspapers across the country [...]
Tags: Newspaper · Silicon Valley
Gordon Crovitz on Brands and Newspapers
September 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Here’s a nice video clip of Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, talking about some of the peculiarities of the newspaper business and branding. I’ve seen Gordon speak several times and think he’s a fascinating speaker. We’re trying to get him to speak at our Digital Publishing Summit this Fall/Winter. Hopefully, we’ll [...]
Tags: Newspaper · Publishing · Publishing and Printing
Surowiecki on Newspapers
December 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Continuing my recent rants about newspapers, please see this interesting story in the New Yorker by James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, entitled News You Can Lose. On the source of the problems: There’s no mystery as to the source of all the trouble: advertising revenue has dried up. In the third quarter [...]
Tags: Marketing · Newspaper · Wisdom of Crowds · innovator's dilemma · strategy
