NBC's decision to move Jay Leno's talk show to prime time this fall was a calculated risk for the network. Would his loyal late night audience follow him to the earlier time slot? There's no longer much doubt that the answer is no.
by Gregg Palermo The message was clear: In this age of technological change and 24-hour news cycles, journalists have a relevant role to play in our society. We’ve heard that message a lot lately, especially in the face of tough economic times that have impacted every …
Everybody's looking for the magic formula. What, pray tell, is the business model that will keep independent journalism alive? A new report to be unveiled tomorrow at a Yale University conference has some suggestions, along with a fair amount of scary data about the current …
Tired of aggregators "stealing our content," News Corp's Rupert Murdoch is threatening to make his sites invisible to Google and other search engines. "They shouldn't have had [our content] free all the time and I think we've been asleep," Murdoch told Sky News, in a …
Paywalls are back but will they backfire? That's one of the biggest questions surrounding the move by some big media companies toward paid content online. Last week, Cablevision-owned Newsday made its full content accessible only to subscribers. Bloomberg News is considering charging up to $1,000 a …
If hyperlocal is the future of news, as we keep hearing almost daily, what can we learn from sites that have gone belly up? Mark Potts, who founded one of the original hyperlocal sites, BackFence, shared his top lessons for keeping a site afloat at a …
Imagine a national TV news program focused almost entirely on politics and economic news, with an anchor who reads from a paper script not a prompter. No one would watch it, right? Unless, of course, you're in Germany, where the 15-minute Tagesschau (Daily Show) at …
The recession may be bottoming out, but local TV stations aren't seeing much evidence of an economic recovery. The latest reports from several ownership groups are downright depressing. Operating income for the Fox owned-and-operated TV stations dropped 67 percent in the quarter ending June …
The decision didn't come as a total shock, but the timing was ironic. One day after accepting a prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia …
It’s grim out there. So many people have lost their jobs in television newsrooms that …
Whiplash or vertigo — call it what you like. It's the feeling you get from watching cable news try to cover …
A lot has changed in the 50 years since Edward R. Murrow made his now-famous speech challenging television news to live up to …
