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Majority of Media and Entertainment Revenue Will Come From Digital by 2015, Study Finds -- TheWrap.com

rowlikeagirl — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:30:40 -0400

For traditional media companies fighting to stay on top in the internet age it may no longer be a case of forgoing analog dollars in favor of digital pennies just to stay ahead of the pack.

Media and entertainment companies say that 47 percent of their overall revenues currently come from digital products, according to a new report by professional services firm Ernst & Young. Further, they project that by 2015 a majority of their income, or 57 percent, will be generated from digital sales.

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To arrive at those numbers, Ernst & Young surveyed more than 550 senior executives at technology, gaming, publishing, film, broadcast and cable and social networking companies.

Read full story: Majority of Media and Entertainment Revenue Will Come From Digital by 2015, Study Finds

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rowlikeagirl — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:40:08 -0400

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rowlikeagirl — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:28:39 -0400

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motherjones:

foulmouthedliberty:

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And the highest paid public employee in your state is…

Just be you, Vermont.

We’re guessing that this map, when viewed by anyone with a negative, apathetic, or in-perspective attitude towards sports, is probably a good way to spike your blood pressure. Still, nice to see that as in so many ways, Vermont is an island unto itself.

poynterinstitute: When police wouldn’t release a gang map,...

rowlikeagirl — Sat, 04 May 2013 11:53:45 -0400

poynterinstitute:

When police wouldn’t release a gang map, Toledo Blade crime reporter drew her own

Early in 2013, Dungjen and photographer Amy E. Voigt got tired of waiting. They began driving around the city, asking people if they knew anything about gangs.

“That got us nowhere,” Dungjen said.

So she tweeted out requests for help — a strategy that worked. People put her touch with former gang members, with people who worked in prisons, and even with current gang members.

fox35news: The World Chili Eating Challenge is taking place...

rowlikeagirl — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:40:59 -0500

fox35news:

The World Chili Eating Challenge is taking place this weekend as part of the Orlando Chili Cook Off, and champion competitive eater Joey Chestnut joined Good Day Orlando to help us with a hot dog-eating contest of our own!

SEE MORE PHOTOS: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/21084517/joey-chestnut-joins-good-day-orlando-anchors-for-hot-dog-eating-contest

fox35news: Nik Wallenda walks a 200-foot-high tightrope —...

rowlikeagirl — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:02:09 -0500

fox35news:

Nik Wallenda walks a 200-foot-high tightrope — without a harness or net — across U.S. 41 over downtown Sarasota on Tuesday, January 29, 2013.

fox35news: Lanes of westbound I-4 were closed this morning for...

rowlikeagirl — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:17:45 -0500

fox35news:

Lanes of westbound I-4 were closed this morning for an investigation into a crash that killed a driver and spilled thousands of court documents across the roadway. [SEE MORE]

The newsonomics of Tribune’s metro agony -- Nieman Journalism Lab

rowlikeagirl — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:44:00 -0500

In every way, metros under-perform smaller, community-sized papers — as many community publishers point out to me when they complain (justifiably) about media coverage that uses metro papers’ woes as a proxy for the entire daily industry.

Why do metros underperform? They are caught between the national/global players and community dailies. Community dailies — think those with 75,000 or less circulation — cover smaller geographic areas. More of their coverage is expressly local, meaning the stories may touch neighborhoods and issues known to readers. They also typically face less competition for readers and for advertising.

Read the entire report at NiemanLab.org.

L.A. Youth: A paper produced by teens for teens is no longer pressing ahead -- LATimes.com

rowlikeagirl — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:43:00 -0500

Over the years, it grew to have an office of its own, where students would come to produce a newspaper that was distributed to the classrooms of more than 1,200 teachers across Los Angeles County. It had a circulation of 70,000 and an estimated readership of 400,000, Myrow said.

But L.A. Youth struggled financially in recent years, reeling from the loss of foundation grants and corporate donations that were a primary source of funding. After the paper almost ran out of money last year, narrowly surviving through last-minute gifts, its board of directors decided it had run out of options and voted earlier this month to cease publishing.

Read the full story at LATimes.com.

Across world, money to support journalism startups comes from a variety of sources -- NiemanLab

rowlikeagirl — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:33:00 -0500

In the U.K., we found a few journalistic startups who’ve experiment with business models and have found somewhat unexpected revenue streams — including money made selling something other than their journalism, most often technology. One British example is Tweetminster, which gets its name from a mashup of Twitter and London’s Westminster. Tweetminster automatically curates what experts in U.K. politics and current affairs think is important, based on data and without human intervention. For its clients and partners, however, the company produces analysis of particular industries, topics, or markets — all based on what experts of those fields are paying attention to online. “Everything we do outside of politics we charge for. We sell a license to use our software. It’s an API, so as the clients make more calls, the price goes up,” CEO Alberto Nardelli said.

Blottr is a U.K.-based citizen journalism news service, but its income also comes mainly from its technology.

Read the full report here.

Chicago Tribune resumes work with Journatic after 5-month suspension -- Poynter.org

rowlikeagirl — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:55:00 -0500

In a note to staff and in a story published on the paper’s website, the Chicago Tribune announced it is resuming work with Journatic after suspending relations following a range of ethical breaches at the Tribune and other publications.

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The Tribune, an investor in Journatic, suspended work with them in July after discovering plagiarism and fabrication in a story published for TribLocal, a hyperlocal news network serving Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs. Prior to that discovery, “This American Life” revealed that Journatic used fake bylines and took other ethical shortcuts.

Google: Surveillance 'is on the rise' -- The Hill's technology blog

rowlikeagirl — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:47:00 -0500

“From January to June, Google received nearly 8,000 requests for user data from the U.S. government. The search company said it “fully or partially” compiled with roughly 90 percent of them. That’s up from the 5,950 requests for user data that Google received from the U.S. government during the same period a year ago.”

Read the entire report here.

Foxconn halts production at plant after mass brawl

rowlikeagirl — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:47:38 -0400

breakingnews:

BBC News: Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology, a major supplier for Apple, halts production at a plant in northern China after a fight broke out among workers.

Foxconn confirmed that a ‘personal dispute’ escalated into an incident involving about 2,000 workers, injuring 40 of them.

Foxconn has previously been accused of having poor conditions for its workers.

A Pink Palace of Proclivity...: "Last week, Newsweek launched a Twitter hash tag,

rowlikeagirl — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:42:47 -0400

A Pink Palace of Proclivity...: "Last week, Newsweek launched a Twitter hash tag,:

bigstarlet:

“Last week, Newsweek launched a Twitter hash tag, #MuslimRage, to spur chatter about its cover story. What followed may constitute the most inspiring revolt yet of new media against old. Scores of English-speaking Muslim Twitter users, offended by the magazine’s clichéd imagery, hijacked (“pun…

"Get a life, will you people! It's... It's just a phone!"

rowlikeagirl — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:26:00 -0400

All this hysteria over the new iPhone reminds me of one of my favorite SNL skits.

William Shatner SNL skit Get A Life 1986-12-20 by efly2020

"Today’s woman journalists are less likely to get massaged and smooched on the job. But 42 years..."

rowlikeagirl — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:05:38 -0400

“Today’s woman journalists are less likely to get massaged and smooched on the job. But 42 years after that lawsuit, women are still shut out: Men make up 60% of newspaper employees, write 80% of newspaper op-eds and author most articles in “thought leader” magazines such as the New Yorker, which last year had 242 female bylines, 613 male. The record for “new media” is better than print, though men and women are still nowhere near parity. In a report earlier this year, the Op-Ed Project said 33% of op-eds in the Huffington Post and on Salon were written by women.”

- Why do women still lag in journalism? - CNN.com

PITCH: Is Tumblr the Next Time, Inc?

rowlikeagirl — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:36:22 -0400

onaunconference:

Once upon a time, the jobs in journalism were all at what we would consider traditional outlets — Time, Newsweek, ABC News, the Washington Post, etc. But these days, journalists who’ve had their pick of those publications are flocking to tech companies like Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter to create stories — content that competes, in breadth and scope, with the highest-caliber traditional publications. As print suffers a slow and painful decline, it’s not just the web that’s changing journalism as we know it — it’s tech companies like Tumblr and Facebook who are launching what could be the new new media movement. But what does this mean for the future of traditional journalistic outlets? Can a journalist remain objective when she’s employed by a company? Are journalists’ future homes in places that aren’t primarily about journalism, and should it be?

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orlandosentinel: A young adult manatee comes to the surface for...

rowlikeagirl — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:54:18 -0400

orlandosentinel:

A young adult manatee comes to the surface for air in a black murky lagoon on the Little Econlockhatchee River at Jay Blanchard Park near Orlando, Florida. To get to Blanchard Park, the 7½- to 8½-foot-long animal had to travel 25 miles from the St. Johns River up the forest-lined Econlockhatchee River and the largely urban Little Econlockhatchee River. Not only do the two rivers twist and turn countless times, some stretches are often too shallow to float even a kayak. For now, the adventurer seems content to hang out less than 10 miles from downtown Orlando, by a YMCA. Surprised state authorities have never seen one of the endangered species there and are considering whether to catch and haul it back to the St. Johns River. Read the entire story here. (Photos by Red Huber, Orlando Sentinel)

When Freemium Fails - WSJ.com

rowlikeagirl — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:08:58 -0400

A growing number of new businesses are following in the footsteps of successful companies such as Dropbox Inc., LinkedIn Corp., and Skype Inc., by giving away their products and services free to build a customer base.

Yet for some, the “freemium” strategy is turning out to be a costly trap, leaving them with higher operating costs and thousands of freeloaders.

That’s what happened to Chargify LLC, a provider of billing-management software to small businesses, which used the freemium business model when it started out in 2009.

The Needham, Mass., company gave away its software to merchants that billed fewer than 50 customers a month. If a merchant wanted to bill more than 50 customers monthly, then the business owner would have to start paying $49 a month.

Most Chargify users never became paying customers. Within a year, the company was on the path to bankruptcy.

Chargify eventually put up a paywall for all users. Last month the 12-employee company became profitable, with more than 900 paying customers. The starter plan is $65 a month.

“The decision to move away from freemium was the best business decision we ever made,” said Lance Walley, co-founder and chief executive officer.

via online.wsj.com

When Freemium Fails - WSJ.com

rowlikeagirl — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:05:00 -0400

A growing number of new businesses are following in the footsteps of successful companies such as Dropbox Inc., LinkedIn Corp., and Skype Inc., by giving away their products and services free to build a customer base.

Yet for some, the “freemium” strategy is turning out to be a costly trap, leaving them with higher operating costs and thousands of freeloaders.

That’s what happened to Chargify LLC, a provider of billing-management software to small businesses, which used the freemium business model when it started out in 2009.

The Needham, Mass., company gave away its software to merchants that billed fewer than 50 customers a month. If a merchant wanted to bill more than 50 customers monthly, then the business owner would have to start paying $49 a month.

Most Chargify users never became paying customers. Within a year, the company was on the path to bankruptcy.

Chargify eventually put up a paywall for all users. Last month the 12-employee company became profitable, with more than 900 paying customers. The starter plan is $65 a month.

“The decision to move away from freemium was the best business decision we ever made,” said Lance Walley, co-founder and chief executive officer.

via online.wsj.com via @pattonroberta