More Thoughts on U.S. Circulation Declines
I’ve more thoughts about the accelerating declines in circulations of major U.S. newspaper: Many newspaper executives are blaming the new Do-Not-Call anti-telemarketing lists for a large portion of...
View ArticleParis: World Association of Newspapers' Advertising Conference
My job at the World Association of Newspapers’ Advertising Conference isn’t to report here but to present there the situation in online newspaper advertising and to talk business with the 470 attendees...
View ArticleThe News Industry's Five Stages of Grief
In her 1969 book On Death and Dying, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 – 2004) postulated the now famous Five Stages of Grief that people undergo when faced with their impending death: Denial and...
View ArticleHundreds of American Newspapers Surrender
The boon and the bane of Digital Deliverance’s business of consulting about new-media to traditional media companies is that those companies change their chiefs of new-media so often. For example, the...
View ArticleWhy Should Newspapers Offer Online Video News?
If you work in New Media, the answer should be obvious. Nevertheless, there are still many newspapers that don’t understand why. Some merely offer online video as a novelty featured under the title...
View ArticleAn Apostate of Mass Media Greets Their Successors
Fourteen years ago, I took shelter from an inanity that has doomed a once hallowed media industry and which has resulted in today’s citizenry being much less informed than had their predecessors. I...
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