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A short movie trailer on journalism
Mindy McAdams on how mainstream media is much like a movie theater of her youth. It’s like the movie theater in the small town where I grew up. A small, family-owned theater, it only played second-run movies. It was open only on Friday and Saturday. There was one screen, and one new movie each week.…
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Gee, you think a network effect would work on the Internet
My reading of this is Jay Smith believes in the network effect and sees that as one of the remaining opportunities for newspapers. Below is an excerpt from an email from retired Cox Newspapers chief executive Jay Smith to former Rocky Mountain News Editor John Temple that Temple posted with permission on his blog. While…
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Local video content sharing continuing to spread
Pooling video resources among competing TV stations has come to Dallas. Barry Shlachter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram takes a look a month into local video sharing in that market Participating are Fox’s KDFW, NBC’s KXAS and Tribune Co.’s KDAF. (KDFW and KXAS also agreed in January to share a helicopter.) “Three or four years…