Our colleagues at The Economist have an informative infographic on the rise and fall of American newspaper circulation. As the video shows, some newspapers have done a better job at growing their circulation than others. Publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have managed to increase their circulations (which includes [...]

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Tags: ads, digital, New York Times, newspaper, Wall Street Journal

Earlier this year I kept hearing friends say Facebook wasn’t cool anymore. They were complaining that the social network had lost its edge. My 16-year-old nephew said that he hardly even bothered to log on any more. But my 14-year-old niece remained obsessed and her wall continued to be filled with phrases like “Ur so [...]

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Tags: Facebook, Sandy

Just as publishers were starting to get a handle on how to monetize the web, mobile devices exploded in popularity. Now mobile traffic from smartphones and tablets is challenging the business models of publishers and tech companies alike. To make sense of this transition, Muck Rack and the Financial Times (part-owner of The Economist Group) [...]

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Tags: Financial Times, FT, mobile, Muckrack, publishing, Rob Grimshaw

I’m sad to say that I will no longer be writing for Lean Back 2.0, and as such, this last post will be on a new survey that’s very much relevant to this blog’s raison d’etre: tablets! A frequent question tech critics have raised is whether the iPad Mini will cannibalize sales from the original [...]

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Tags: Apple, iPad mini, reading, tablets

While the US has been focused on the relatively pricey iPad Mini, India has turned its attention to the launch of the cheap, yet powerful, Aakash 2 tablet computer. Millions of students across India will soon have access to what’s been hailed as “the world’s cheapest tablet”, manufactured by the UK-based company Datawind. The Indian [...]

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Tags: Aakash, e-learning, education, India, tablet, tablet education

Amid all the post-mortems on media coverage of election 2012, one phrase jumped out at me as best encapsulating the shift that is currently taking place in digital media. In a comprehensive round-up piece at Nieman Lab, CNN’s Marissa Gallagher’s used “purpose-driven design” to describe the new tools being utilized, and the shifting media consumer [...]

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Tags: big data, data, election, nate silver, print, publishing