Reflections of a Newsosaur

On March 4, 1978, the presses fell silent for the last time at the Chicago Daily News, an iconic and crusading newspaper that was unable to...

Publishers and advertisers have only themselves to blame for the revenue erosion caused by the rise of ad-blocking software. Now, it is up...

The newspaper publishers who put paywalls on their websites in the last few years should declare victory and tear them down before the barr...

The number of consumers actively blocking digital advertising has grown dramatically in the last five years, posing a difficult and dauntin...

Newspapers are so bad at digital publishing that they should just give up and focus on print.  That’s the bracing thesis of a recently pu...

With Apple, Facebook and Google promoting powerful news-delivery platforms, the best days may be in the rearview mirror for the dedicated n...

There are few industries where mobile is having as big an impact as the disruption it is bringing to retailing. This should make publishers...

The smartwatch market is so small that it only took a day or two for the Apple Watch to emerge as the biggest selling techno-timepiece in hi...

Any day now, we will cross another technological tipping point, as the majority of digital advertising purchases moves to mobile devices fro...

In 2009, David Boraks wrote an inspiring guest post here about the launch of his hyper-local news site in Davidson County, NC. Last week, ...

The natural order of the universe was disrupted yesterday when BuzzFeed, NBC News, the New York Times and a number of other prominent media...

The pending purchase of the San Diego U-T by the Los Angeles Times represents a synergy not of strength but of tsoris.   Tsoris, for the...