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Community Reporting Is Still A Backbone, But It Belongs To Someone Else Now

Hyperlocal is heating up. MSNBC.com this summer acquired EveryBlock, which feeds crime reports, restaurant health inspections and other data to news organizations' Web sites. AOL Inc. recently acquired the local-news network Patch. According to The Wall Street Journal, CNN will begin to republish Outside.in dispatches on its own Web site--the biggest push into local news so far by one of the most popular national …

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John Byrne Focused on Content, Curation and Community

John Byrne, former editor of BusinessWeek.com and Fast Company, is being swept out in Bloomberg's takeover of the business title. Like many other media pros, Byrne isn't looking for another old media structure to save his butt. He's intent on building something new and hoping, like his fellow entrepreneurs, that he builds something to last. On his new company's new blog, C-Change, Byrne explains: I passionately …

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The Emporer Wears Some Tattered Clothes

David Carr of The New York Times reflects on what it means to be in the traditional media business today: For those of us who work in Manhattan media, it means that a life of occasional excess and prerogative has been replaced by a drum beat of goodbye speeches with sheet cakes and cheap sparkling wine. It's a wan reminder that all reigns are temporary, that the court of self-appointed media royalty was serving at …

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Autocontentmatons And Advertisers In The Newsroom

According to The Wall Street Journal, AOL is betting it can reinvent itself with a numbers-driven approach to developing content, based on what Web-search and other data tell it is most likely to attract audiences and sponsors. AOL says its technology streamlines the process of assigning, editing and publishing stories by using a series of algorithms to predict the types of stories, videos and photos that will be …

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TV Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That

Dear traditional ad man, you are still in the game. But you knew that all along, didn't you? Whether your confidence waned or not, here's some sweet music for your ears from Los Angeles Times: After pummeling traditional media companies for nearly two years, the advertising recession is showing signs of a recovery. TV networks -- including Fox, CBS and ABC and such leading cable channels as TNT, TBS, USA, Bravo and …

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Human Vitality Raises The Bar Considerably

Robin Sloan of Snarkmarket believes in generative events, or events that generate media. The great virtue of events today, in the dawn­ing 2010s, is that their value seems durable in a way that the value of super-abundant copies of dig­i­tal media does not. They pro­vide "embod­i­ment," to use Kevin Kelly's taxonomy--and that's some­thing you can still charge for. I like the idea of the event as a fun­da­men­tal unit …

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McSweeney’s Is Celebrating Newsprint In A Big Way

San Francisco Panorama is an upcoming 300-plus-page, single-edition newspaper from McSweeney's, the indie publishing house founded by author Dave Eggers. Six months in the making by McSweeney's staff based in San Francisco's Mission District, the Panorama will comprise a main news section including investigative reports, arts and sports sections, a magazine, a book review section, pull out posters and comics. The …

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This Print Is Jumpin’

Sometimes a demo is just what the doctor ordered. This is one of those times. Andrew Bell of Barbarian Group explains how the project came together. This is all the result of a three-way collaboration between the editorial staff of Esquire, the uber-talented designers at Psyop, and us. It was awesome getting to see first-hand all the exceptional talent that gets poured into an issue of the magazine, and …

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