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 [...]
Tags: big data, data, election, nate silver, print, publishing
November 13 2012
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October 19 2012
For those who missed it yesterday, Tina Brown, editor-in-chief and founder of the Newsweek Daily Beast Company, and Baba Shetty, chief executive, announced that Newsweek would end its print edition at the end of the year. Citing a recent Pew study, Brown and Shetty wrote, “In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at [...]
Tags: digital, magazines, Newsweek, print, publishing
Tags: digital, magazines, Newsweek, print, publishing
The future of mobile news
Even with the popularity of apps, browsers rank supreme
October 12 2012
Every morning before I leave the house, I do a quick scan of the top news stories on Flipboard. Later during the evening, as I’m watching TV or making dinner, I’ll check Flipboard again but this time for the more interesting and “cool” stories. I assumed that most mobile news readers generally had the same [...]
Tags: Apple, apps, browsers, news, print, smartphone, tablet, websites
Tags: Apple, apps, browsers, news, print, smartphone, tablet, websites
September 26 2012
Who says out of home advertising is becoming less useful as people spend more time on mobile devices? Sure, I have a Kindle which I read on my daily commute, but you can’t read while walking (or I can’t.) In fact, I look forward to the advertisements inside the trains and in the subway stations [...]
Tags: advertising, newspapers, print, USA Today
Tags: advertising, newspapers, print, USA Today
Seeing past the PDF
Why tablets aren’t for preserving the printed artefact
July 6 2012
To many publishers, the iPad has looked like the cavalry coming over the hill – a last-minute rescue for a threatened industry. Surely this is no less than a glorious new start for the printed product in all its carefully crafted packaging and design beauty? Well, the relief may be short lived, at least for [...]
Tags: Future, magazine, PDF, print, publishing, T3, Total Film
Tags: Future, magazine, PDF, print, publishing, T3, Total Film
June 21 2012
When we wrote the business plan for the Festival of Media in 2007 – an event designed to bring global advertisers, media agency CEOs and media vendors together in order to trade and debate – we predicted that about 40% of the festival’s income would come from print media owners. This logic flowed from the [...]
Tags: Brazil, festival of media, football, magazines, print
Tags: Brazil, festival of media, football, magazines, print
