This Week in Review: TBD gets the axe, deciphering Apple’s new rules, and empowering more news sources
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news. This week: The demise of TBD; more reactions to Apple's subscription plans for iPhones and iPads; a debate over how to bring new sources into the news; the death and life of blogging; and this week's best reads about the...
Wait, everyone! TBD’s not dead, but changes coming with TV takeover
Big news for TBD today: The site, the Washington Post reported, is being taken over by owner Allbritton Communications' TV station, WJLA. (On its six-month birthday, no less.) This seemed, at first blush, dire news. (Jeff Jarvis: "I'm sitting shiva for TBD.com. So young.") TBD has been known, after all — despite its corporate owner...
This Week in Review: An objectivity object lesson, a paywall is panned, and finding the blogger’s voice
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. This week: Keith Olbermann and the meaning of objectivity; The Times (UK) releases more paywall numbers; Marc Ambinder says goodbye to blogging; a departure at TBD; and more.
The birth of TBD?
Jim Brady, daddy of metro/hyperlocal startup TBD.com, sent me pictures Tim Windsor sent him from our summit on new business models for news at CUNY two years ago. In the session on the new newsroom, Jim got up and started sketching the structure and size — little knowing, as he said in testimony before the...
Welcome, TBD.com
Listening in to most of TBD.com’s press preview today, I was kvelling like a proud uncle. I’m so delighted to see Jim Brady and company create so many of the things I’ve wishing for in journalism. Ken Doctor beat me to a great list of many of those things.
What makes me happiest is that...
Networks Aim to Solve Local Ad Puzzle for Hyper-Local Sites
Local advertising is back in style, at least among some big national media companies, and that attitude shift has fueled changes for hyper-local and micro-local news sites.
While small independents might not yet feel the financial benefits of an increased focus on local advertising, some site owners are seeing increased interest in the content they generate...
This Week in Review: Google’s content farm crackdown, Facebook’s new comments, more TBD lessons