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Audit Integrity Announces Results of Corporate Bankruptcy Study; Identifies
2009-09-21 12:00:00 CBS, Sirius, Libert Media... etc. More About: Study , Results , Corporate , Bankruptcy , Audit
Reducing media bias through regulation ¦ Vox [del.icio.us]
2009-09-18 14:22:00 [W]e show how advertising can seriously interfere with the quality, accuracy, and breadth of content and programming in the media (Ellman and Germano 2009). Bias ed content is most likely when competition amongst media outlets is limited or when advertisers are large and can threaten to withdraw their advertising business from the media. The analysis extends to media dependence on any business or state actors that can substantially affect media company profits. Analysing the delicate interaction between advertisers, financiers, media outlets, and media audiences within a two-sided markets framework generates new insights for policymakers. Our work points to the need for independent media and makes the case for promoting competition and public funding. More About: Media , Regulation , Media Bias
Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom? | Technology Review [del.icio.us]
2009-09-16 23:18:00 Kostakos studied voting patterns on Amazon, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and the book review site BookCrossings. The research was presented last month at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. His team looked at hundreds of thousands of items and millions of votes across the three sites. In each case, they found that a small number of users accounted for a large number of ratings. For example, only 5 percent of active Amazon users cast votes on more than 10 products. A handful of users voted hundreds of items. More About: Technology , Review , Wisdom , Trust , Crowd
Frankl: He who has a WHY can bear any HOW | Andreas Kluth [del.icio.us]
2009-09-16 13:25:00 Brief, and to the point: "[M]y critique of logotherapy is really the same as my critique of religion: Sure, it might be helpful to see meaning (= believe in God), but that does not mean that there actually is meaning (=God). Sartre might be right after all." More About: Andreas
The Story Behind the Story | Mark Bowden [del.icio.us]
2009-09-16 13:00:00 "I would describe their approach as post-journalistic. It sees democracy, by definition, as perpetual political battle. The blogger?s role is to help his side. Distortions and inaccuracies, lapses of judgment, the absence of context, all of these things matter only a little, because they are committed by both sides, and tend to come out a wash. Nobody is actually right about anything, no matter how certain they pretend to be. The truth is something that emerges from the cauldron of debate. No, not the truth: victory, because winning is way more important than being right. Power is the highest achievement. There is nothing new about this. But we never used to mistake it for journalism. Today it is rapidly replacing journalism, leading us toward a world where all information is spun, and where all ?news? is unapologetically propaganda. In this post-journalistic world, the model for all national debate becomes the trial, where adversaries face off, representing opposing points of... More About: Story , The Story , Mark
Washington Post's Katharine Weymouth steps in it again | Jack Shafer [del.i
2009-09-16 07:41:00 [A] boss needs to be careful when he tells a random guy in the lunchroom that he likes ketchup on his hot dogs lest an executive overhear him and ban mustard from the premises. If a boss wants mustard prohibited, he should say so unequivocally. Otherwise, he should just order his hot dog, eat it, and shut up. More About: Washington , Jack , Katharine
Africa desperately needs trade links: a pictorial essay | Aid Watch [del.ic
2009-09-16 00:35:00 In all the debates about free trade, we can forget sometimes that international trade is not optional for a very small, very poor country. If there are any kinds of returns to scale at all in many sectors, and casual observation and much research suggests there are, then a tiny domestic market will rule out any serious domestic production in many, many sectors (is the Gambia going to be making refrigerators any time soon?) So trade will be a necessity, specializing in what each small, poor country can do, and importing everything else. And what continent is full of small, poor countries? Africa , of course. More About: Watch , Pictorial , Links , Trade
Quant models. Forgotten variables? | socia.izing finance [del.icio.us]
2009-09-16 00:32:00 [T]he history of quantification is not just a story about doing better statistics by adding factors to combat incompleteness; rather the progress of models has involved the rise of novel type of quantification methods that have changed the nature of the world that these techniques presumed to model. More About: Finance , Models , Variables , Forgotten
Is Fast Flip Really the Best Google Can Do to Save the News? | RWW [del.ici
2009-09-15 22:45:00 The title says it all... More About: News , Google , The News , Fast , Save
How to Save Newspapers and Journalism ¦ Barry Ritholtz [del.icio.us]
2009-09-12 10:34:00 We know that the annual subscription model won?t work outside of finance. And that there will be numerous papers that won?t survive, either on or off line. Free content is going to continue to siphon off readers and ad dollars, albeit modestly. ?Revenue from newspaper classified ads is off nearly 50 percent in the past decade, a drop that comes to almost $10 billion. Only a fraction of this loss is because of Newmark?s company, but as the largest online classified site, craigslist is easy to blame,? says Wired. Total revenue (from all sources) fall last year was $7.5 billion. And this means that total (free) reader numbers will be going down in the future; Papers need to do the math to ensure the loss of advertising revenue from non-paying readers is offset by subscriber revenue. More About: Journalism , Newspapers , Save , Barry
Findings - A Clash of Polar Frauds and Those Who Believe ¦ NYTimes.com [del
2009-09-08 13:32:00 When we contemplate contradictions in the rhetoric of the opposition party?s candidate, the rational centers of our brains are active, but contradictions from our own party?s candidate set off a different reaction: the emotional centers light up and levels of feel-good dopamine surge. With our rational faculties muted, sometimes the unwelcome evidence doesn?t even register, and sometimes we use marvelous logic to get around the facts. More About: Polar , Frauds , Clash
Mobile phones vs. Telegrams: Journalism Morality Down the Ages
2009-07-09 14:31:00 Given Nick Davies’ story alleging mass mobile phone-hacking by journalists, it might perhaps be instructive to look back at the journalistic morals of another age. Here, by way of example, is ‘Journalism and Morality ’ by Silas Bent, published in 1926 in The Atlantic (and quoted in Can You Trust The Media?). Note especially - towards the ... More About: Mobile , Mobile Phones , Phones
Leaving
2009-07-09 11:05:00 Although I?ll be haunting College Building for the next week or so, today is my leaving drinks (or ?glad you?re gone? party as we used to call them). I?ll be keeping up a link with the place as a prof, and I?ll be trying to bash out a PhD. And I?ll also be giving a modest sum ... More About: Journalism
Newspaper subscription by algorithm
2009-06-16 11:26:00 My hunch? Not quite there yet… More About: Journalism , Newspaper
The New York Times via the Daily Show
2009-06-11 18:11:00 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c End Times www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Newt Gingrich Unedited Interview More About: New York , Journalism , York
Media vanity projects?
2009-06-11 10:29:00 This short paragraph from an obit of Fleur Cowles gives you some idea of why the tastes of media connoisseurs and the general public are not necessarily in synch (and of the source of creative motivation): Flair was a short-lived, loss-making, vanity project, meant to showcase the persona Fleur had invented for herself. Media professionals and students ... More About: Projects , Vanity
The redundant story: math and the future of journalism
2009-06-01 17:27:00 I have long argued the rather unoriginal position that journalism’s mission to inform has its roots in religious ‘infotainment’ both popular and intellectual - moralising editorials replaced moralising sermons, etc. But I’ve been struggling to express why that mission seems such a recurrent trope in history. The use of stories for entertaining and moral purposes is clear ... More About: Story , Journalism , Future , The Future , Math
Off topic: the language of advertising
2009-05-21 19:22:00 The IdeasBrothers blog has uncovered a novel written by an advertising planner. In a penthouse apartment on the right side of town, a 28?54 year old man called Dan tried to control his breathing. Someone or something was moving about downstairs. He listened intently. There it was again. In the inky dark, the sound had real ... More About: Advertising , Language , Topic
My new job?and yours?
2009-05-20 13:00:00 I am delighted and - yes, excited - to announce that I’ll be joining the World Economic Forum as Managing Director and Head of Communications from August. [More here.] In the new role I’ll be removing my commentary hat and travelling a lot more, so the blog will probably fall into abeyance - it’s been suffering from ... More About: Journalism
Obama: justifying a news media bailout?
2009-05-11 11:23:00 If you wondered about the US government and the news media, and the possibility - the hint, flicker, barest glimmer - of some kind of bailout, then listen to the last few humourless minutes of Barack Obama 's speech to the White House press corps (it's from 2'50" in on the clip below). Is he merely playing to the gallery? Or is he providing the intellectual justification for future action? Or am I simply indulging my journalistic passion for over-interpretation? More About: News , Media , Journalism , A News
The opportunities and implications of BBC partnerships with local media
2009-04-28 23:00:00 A long time ago, I wrote the plan to run ITV News in London (replacing LNN), modelled on the operating structure for Five News. It involved reformatting shows and cutting staffing to the bare minimum required to get on air. More About: Media , Journalism , Local , Opportunities
Links for 2008-06-06 [del.icio.us]
2008-06-07 07:00:00 Coming To America - Zen Traveler "We are getting word that the U.S. Government is planning to implement a program that grants refugee status to selected Iraqis that have assisted the media and therefor may be in danger once the Coalition forces depart this country." My Neighbor Is A Nielsen Stooge - TV Board "I saw the two televisions he ?hid? from Nielsen during the installation. ?For when we want to watch stuff we don?t want Nielsen to know we watch,? he confided." More About: Links , 2008
The future of fixers in Iraq
2008-06-06 09:28:00 This from a US blogger in Baghdad: We are getting word that the U.S. Government is planning to implement a program that grants refugee status to selected Iraq is that have assisted the media and therefor may be in danger once the Coalition forces depart this country. As I understand it, these Iraqis, and their families, will ... More About: Future , The Future
Links for 2008-06-05 [del.icio.us]
2008-06-06 07:00:00 The Rise of Asymmetrical Competition Where Hillary?s strategists focused on the tired, industrial-era strategy of segmenting consumers to divide-and-conquer, Obama focused on crafting a message and a brand that cut across artificial divisions in market space. TV news channels in India: Falling prey to TRP! Stop me if you think...etc: "If you get bored of being entertained on news channels, you may be offered a small dose of news to quench your desire." Microsoft's Ballmer on Yahoo and the Future Which wil die first? Vista or print? Wikipedia’s Values Are The BBC’s Values We have to come down off our pedestals and realise that some licence fee payers are cleverer than we are. Anyone who shares the BBC values should be welcome to make or help make BBC content whether they are professional and paid by us or whether they are Season Finale: CNNs Ratings During Obama Speech Are a Milestone - TV Decoder - Media It is extremely rare for a cable news channel to draw hi... More About: Links , 2008
Westminster Media Forum 4 - live blogging
2008-06-05 13:51:00 Eve Salomon, Press Complaints Commission We need to know how to motivate users to take privacy on board - gives example of 17 yr old son and Facebook. Can a photograph not showing private behaviour be classed as private outside copyright issues? Even if material is private there can be good reasons to breach privacy, e.g. YouTube video of ... More About: Media , Blogging , Forum , Live , Westminster
Westminster Media Forum 3 - live blogging
2008-06-05 12:37:00 Chris Bryant MP, chair. Age old debate - public interest vs. interest of the public. Is there a difference between placing yourself in public domain, and being placed in it? New issues for legislators and regulators. Internet not tomorrow’s chip paper. Stories preserved for years. Media climate of permanent moral outrage has level of permanent vituperation. Blogs ... More About: Blogging , Forum , Live , Westminster
Westminster Media Forum 2 - live blogging
2008-06-05 12:10:00 David Evans, Information Commissioner’s Office We’ve had complaints about social media. Data is still ‘mine.’ IC is firstly about reminding people about possible dangers of revealing information online. Educating individuals, e.g. would you want mum, boss, teacher etc. to know this? 75% of people using soc media sites haven’t read privacy rules. If you’re tagging people you’re also dealing with ... More About: Media , Blogging , Forum , Live , Westminster
Westminster Media Forum - live blogging
2008-06-05 11:22:00 Gideon Benaim, Schillings Consensus is that elements of the press have gone too far? All private citizens have a right to challenge intrusions into their privacy. If press doesn?t rein itself in lawyers and govt will. Rhidian Wynn-Davies, Telegraph More requests from readers to remove stories ? view is they shouldn?t. Currently have a complaint in progress about content from Facebook. When ... More About: Media , Blogging , Forum , Live , Westminster
Links for 2008-06-04 [del.icio.us]
2008-06-05 07:00:00 Pan-Arab TV Talk Show Discusses Media-Terrorism Relationship - redOrbit "Let me give you an example of the Arab media's handling of terrorist acts: when the UN offices were attacked in Algeria, a major Arabic channel kicked off its evening newscast with an opinion poll and asked viewers if they support this attack." The Incredible Shrinking New York Times? - vanityfair.com Actually, more news and less ads. So much for churnalism? Israel army warns journos... - Yahoo! News "Reporters here take risks every day to cover this conflict and accept the risks. But that doesn't absolve the Israeli military of its responsibility, nor does it give Israel a free hand to do whatever it wants in Gaza." How to Kill Bad Projects What does a prediction market have to do with eliminating spin? ...by tapping anonymous input ?from people who aren?t normally asked their opinions, in samples large enough to filter out individual agendas.? Big Daily's 'Hyperlocal' Flop - WSJ.com &... More About: Links , 2008
Local schmokel
More articles from this author:2008-06-04 21:05:00 We live in a strange world. I work forty miles from where I sleep. The shopping gets delivered and the garbage gets taken away. The Atlantic and New Yorker arrive by post. Friends, work and everything else arrive via broadband. That’s my life. There’s not much local about it. Strike that. There really is nothing local about it. I’m ... More About: Local 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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