Items by By DAVID CARR
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The Media Equation: The Times-Picayune, New Orleans and a Doomed Romance
Posted: May 27th, 2012, 9:30pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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In a city where not much of anything works, The Times-Picayune does, and nothing got print romanticists more dewy-eyed than the announcement of its reduced schedule.
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The Media Equation: The Atavist Matures as a Publisher and a Platform
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 9:50am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The Atavist, which helps produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices, has a content management system that has turned into a business opportunity.
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The Media Equation: TV News Corrects Itself, Just Not on the Air
Posted: April 22nd, 2012, 7:19pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Newspapers run corrections all the time, but a mistake on television news, like NBC’s misleading editing of an audio clip by George Zimmerman, is often followed by silence.
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The Media Equation: Theater, Disguised Up as Real Journalism
Posted: March 18th, 2012, 11:19pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” was a fine bit of theater, but it worked less well as journalism, which was how it was represented in January on “This American Life.”
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The Media Equation: Guidelines Proposed for Content Aggregation Online
Posted: March 12th, 2012, 1:13am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Two approaches to giving credit where credit belongs online were announced at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin.
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The Media Equation: Twitter Is All in Good Fun, Until It Isn’t
Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:00am EST by By DAVID CARR
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Especially for companies that encourage its use, Twitter creates an ongoing tension between boss and employee as Roland Martin of CNN recently discovered.
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The Media Equation: At BuzzFeed, the Significant and the Silly
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:40am EST by By DAVID CARR
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The Web site is trying for pollination: providing the kind of content that will have visitors passing along links from one person to the next, that will in turn bring them around to BuzzFeed.
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The Media Equation: Twitter Gives Glimpse Into Rupert Murdoch’s Mind
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 12:00am EST by By DAVID CARR
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While many modern executives live behind a wall of communications operatives, Rupert Murdoch, the chief of News Corporation, is openly expressing his opinions on Twitter.
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The Media Equation: Twitter Gives Glimpse Into Rupert Murdoch’s Mind
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 12:00am EST by By DAVID CARR
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While many modern executives live behind a wall of communications operatives, Rupert Murdoch, the chief of News Corporation, is openly expressing his opinions on Twitter.
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Television: HBO’s ‘Luck,’ Starring Dustin Hoffman
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 10:29am EST by By DAVID CARR
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In “Luck,” starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Michael Mann, horses, and people, jostle for position.
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The Media Equation: How Esquire Survived Publishing’s Dark Days
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 12:20am EST by By DAVID CARR
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David Granger, Esquire’s editor in chief, departed from standard design templates and modernized the magazine, helping to revive a publication many had left for dead.
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The Media Equation: Hollywood Techniques at Play in Politics
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 9:08am EST by By DAVID CARR
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A documentary-style film relentlessly attacking Mitt Romney has unnerved some in Hollywood with its attention to form.
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The Media Equation: Rules for the New Ways of Watching - David Carr
Posted: December 25th, 2011, 9:17pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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The inertia that has kept consumers from bolting from traditional content providers is beginning to erode.
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The Media Equation: Rules for the New Ways of Watching - David Carr
Posted: December 25th, 2011, 1:09am EST by By DAVID CARR
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The inertia that has kept consumers from bolting from traditional content providers is beginning to erode.
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The Media Equation: Reporter on British Phone Hacking Is Entangled in Story
Posted: November 27th, 2011, 11:55pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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Amelia Hill, a reporter for The Guardian in Britain who helped expose phone hacking by newspapers there, found herself questioned by the police.
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Media Decoder Blog: Steve Jobs: An Uber-Nerd Who Made Even Business, and the People Who Cover It, Seem Cool
Posted: October 6th, 2011, 5:33pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Steve Jobs changed how business journalism is perceived, adding glitz and esteem to a subject that had often been associated with faceless conglomerates or Wall Street excess.
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The Media Equation: News Consumption Tilts Toward Niche Sites
Posted: September 12th, 2011, 12:43am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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As news surges on the Web, news giants are being outmaneuvered by smaller sites that have passionate audiences and sharply focused information.
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The Media Equation: Bringing Comfort Food to Print Fans
Posted: August 1st, 2011, 11:59am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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A new food magazine co-created by the owner of Momofuku breaks many of the conventions of magazine journalism and is even a pleasure to hold.
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The Media Equation: Troubles That Money Can’t Dispel
Posted: July 18th, 2011, 12:53am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The willingness of the News Corporation to spend millions in settlement costs to make problems go away provides a useful window into its larger culture.
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The Media Equation: Troubles That Money Can’t Dispel
Posted: July 18th, 2011, 12:53am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The willingness of the News Corporation to spend millions in settlement costs to make problems go away provides a useful window into its larger culture.
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The Media Equation: A Tabloid Shame, Exposed by Earnest Rivals
Posted: July 11th, 2011, 12:40am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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For Rupert Murdoch, newspapers have been useful in wielding influence and are the very thing that brought his company into the cross hairs.
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Magazine Preview: America’s Favorite Talking Hothead
Posted: June 15th, 2011, 2:35pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The Keith Olbermann career plan: Clash with employer. Get new job for millions. Repeat as necessary.
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The Media Equation: TV Justice Thrives on Fear
Posted: May 23rd, 2011, 12:53am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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On Nancy Grace’s television show, the presumption of innocence has found a willful and angry enemy.
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The Media Equation: At Gannett, Furloughs but Nice Paydays for Brass
Posted: April 11th, 2011, 1:07am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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There’s a dissonance between furloughs and layoffs for employees while chief executive compensation doubles.
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Media Decoder: AOL Buys Another Crack at a Future
Posted: February 7th, 2011, 5:31pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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By buying The Huffington Post, AOL will get a unique identity after veering from one approach to another.
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Media Decoder: AOL Buys Another Crack at a Future
Posted: February 7th, 2011, 5:31pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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By buying The Huffington Post, AOL will get a unique identity after veering from one approach to another.
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The Media Equation: Ridiculed, an N.F.L. Owner Goes to Court
Posted: February 7th, 2011, 4:39pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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An article in November in the Washington City Paper ridiculed Daniel M. Snyder, the owner of the Redskins, and his response was to bring in the lawyers.
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The Media Equation: Ridiculed, an N.F.L. Owner Goes to Court
Posted: February 7th, 2011, 4:39pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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An article in November in the Washington City Paper ridiculed Daniel M. Snyder, the owner of the Redskins, and his response was to bring in the lawyers.
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The Media Equation: MTV’s Naked Calculation Gone Bad
Posted: January 23rd, 2011, 11:10pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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MTV clearly erred when it decided that conjuring a show out of semi-nude teenagers would be harmless fun.
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The Media Equation: MTV’s Naked Calculation Gone Bad
Posted: January 23rd, 2011, 11:10pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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MTV clearly erred when it decided that conjuring a show out of semi-nude teenagers would be harmless fun.
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The Media Equation: Publishing, Without Publishers
Posted: January 17th, 2011, 12:41am EST by By DAVID CARR
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Some brands are reaching out directly to consumers, cutting luxury publications out of the process.
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The Media Equation: A Sacrifice to Appease NPR’s Gods
Posted: January 10th, 2011, 2:00am EST by By DAVID CARR
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NPR fires a commentator. NPR receives 23,000 e-mails about said firing. An NPR executive resigns. But will one sacrifice appease the angry gods?
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The Media Equation: The Great Mashup of 2011
Posted: January 3rd, 2011, 12:30am EST by By DAVID CARR
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As the media landscape continues to change, a look at some of the developments that will make news in the coming year.
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The Media Equation: A Lesson for Wall St. About Failure
Posted: December 20th, 2010, 12:43am EST by By DAVID CARR
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“The Company Men” manages to use a bunch of rich guys losing their jobs to reach a fundamental question of this economic age.
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The Media Equation: WikiLeaks Taps Power of the Press
Posted: December 13th, 2010, 11:39am EST by By DAVID CARR
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With each successive release of information, WikiLeaks has become more strategic and has been rewarded with deeper, more extensive coverage of its revelations.
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The Media Equation: To Beat ‘Today,’ Look to Tomorrow
Posted: December 6th, 2010, 12:00am EST by By DAVID CARR
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At the CBS “Early Show,” the entire team got fired. Better to stop playing a well-nigh unwinnable game.
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The Media Equation: A Media False Alarm Over the T.S.A.
Posted: November 29th, 2010, 1:00am EST by By DAVID CARR
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An outcry about airport security became a story about a story, the noisy sound of a news system feeding on itself.
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The Media Equation: A Media False Alarm Over the T.S.A.
Posted: November 29th, 2010, 1:00am EST by By DAVID CARR
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An outcry about airport security became a story about a story, the noisy sound of a news system feeding on itself.
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The Media Equation: A News Corp. Newspaper, but Not in Print
Posted: November 22nd, 2010, 2:10am EST by By DAVID CARR
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Rupert Murdoch is building The Daily, a newspaper for iPads that, unlike most news sites and apps, will be published each morning in one great heave, like a newspaper.
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Media Decoder: Condé Nast Futuregram
Posted: October 28th, 2010, 4:08pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Conde Nast announces major re-org in memo that may have more digital jargon per inch than a Silicon Valley PowerPoint.
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Media Decoder: Statutory Realignment at Tribune Company
Posted: October 28th, 2010, 9:21am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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At Tribune Company, "Bureaucratic Shuffle," a much-loathed symbol of previous management, gets its walking papers.
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The Media Equation: When Salacious Is Irresistible
Posted: October 18th, 2010, 7:50am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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A blog paid for a lewd story about Brett Favre, and then mainstream outlets followed.
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The Media Equation: When Salacious Is Irresistible
Posted: October 18th, 2010, 7:50am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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A blog paid for a lewd story about Brett Favre, and then mainstream outlets followed.
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Media Decoder: Tribune Memo Lands With a Thud at Headquarters
Posted: October 13th, 2010, 12:02pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Memo from Tribune executive with tawdry links lands with a thud.
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The Media Equation: Film Version of Zuckerberg Divides Generations
Posted: October 4th, 2010, 2:20am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The film about Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, can be viewed as a cautionary tale or something to applaud.
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Film: A Zillion Friends, and a Few Enemies
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 11:51am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The thoroughly modern story of Facebook told by “The Social Network” is built on ancient themes.
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The Media Equation: Retooling in Response to Politico
Posted: September 13th, 2010, 1:10am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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In October, Nationaljournal.com will begin offering content from The National Journal, Congress Daily and Hotline on a free site in a bid to fend off online competitors.
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The Media Equation: The Glut of Shows Unwatched
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 12:30am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Television, which was once the brain-dead part of the day, has become one more thing that requires time, attention and discernment.
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The Media Equation: Time Warner Puts Faith in Its Cross-Platform ‘TV Everywhere’
Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 1:13am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Jeffrey Bewkes of Time Warner isn’t worried about competition. When all videos are on all screens, he expects his company’s brands like HBO, TBS and TNT to stand out.
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Fareed Zakaria Moves to Time Magazine
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 10:20pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The magazine’s stable continues to get thinner now that Fareed Zakaria will do much of his work at Time magazine and CNN.
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The Media Equation: New York Magazine’s Lessons for Harman and Newsweek
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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New York magazine was a success for Bruce Wasserstein, offering Sidney Harman a rough blueprint for reviving Newsweek.
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The Media Equation: The Provocateurs as Journalists in the Sherrod Case
Posted: July 26th, 2010, 12:39am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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A new activist-journalist churns out information in real time, and the damage is done before anyone has time to check.
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Gaps in Watchdog Journalism Reflected in News From a Trial
Posted: July 5th, 2010, 2:10am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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At the end of a Chicago trial with roots two decades old, a reporter is again out of a job in journalism.
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Police Torture Reporting Brings Verdict, But Who Will Do the Work Next Time Around?
Posted: June 30th, 2010, 2:24pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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A long-running story on police torture in Chicago yields a verdict, but John Conroy, the reporter whose work got the investigation started, no longer has a job.
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Bounce in Ads Returns, but Skips Newspapers
Posted: June 17th, 2010, 12:26pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Rising ad tide seems to be leaving one boat, made out of newsprint, stuck to the bottom
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The Media Equation: BP’s Managing of Information on Gulf Oil Spill
Posted: June 14th, 2010, 12:31am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Weeks into the oil spill, public information seems to be controlled by BP, in whole or in part.
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The Media Equation: How to Save Newsweek
Posted: June 7th, 2010, 12:10am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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It’s easy to throw rocks at an industry dealing with a digital competition and a fractured culture. Here are a few (helpful) ideas.
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The Media Equation: Bids for Newsweek Due This Week
Posted: May 31st, 2010, 12:29am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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In a publishing landscape filled with the infirm, weeklies are the most profoundly challenged, but three classes of long-shot buyers might consider Newsweek as bids come due for the magazine.
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The Media Equation: News Sites Look Beyond Grants
Posted: May 23rd, 2010, 10:25pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Generous donations from the Knight Foundation have helped the news site MinnPost.com to get its bearings. Now it is trying to achieve business viability.
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The Media Equation: How Gizmodo Monetized an iPhone Spectacle
Posted: April 26th, 2010, 2:14am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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When the gadget blog Gizmodo paid $5,000 for an iPhone prototype, questions were raised about publishers providing money for information.
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The Media Equation: How Gizmodo Monetized an iPhone Spectacle
Posted: April 26th, 2010, 2:14am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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When the gadget blog Gizmodo paid $5,000 for an iPhone prototype, questions were raised about publishers providing money for information.
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The Media Equation: Brian Tierney’s Odd Role Defending Philadelphia Newspapers
Posted: April 12th, 2010, 4:35pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Brian Tierney, a former public relations executive, is the last man standing in a fight to keep Philadelphia’s newspapers out of the hands of lenders.
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The Media Equation: Sarah Palin’s Lucrative Career in Mainstream Media
Posted: April 5th, 2010, 1:43am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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When Sarah Palin’s bid for the vice presidency failed, she quit her day job and proceeded to become a one-woman national media empire, with the ratings and lucre to show for it.
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The Media Equation: Google’s Not Creating Content, Just Protecting It
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 12:11am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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When Google said it would leave mainland China, it struck a blow for free speech — and set a high standard for itself.
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The Media Equation: Location Is Being Redefined for the Digital Age
Posted: March 21st, 2010, 11:24pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla were the talk of the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Tex.
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The Media Equation: Talking Back to Your TV Set, Endlessly
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 1:54am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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With social media, a traditionally passive form of entertainment could someday become a conglomeration of professional production and multiple conversations.
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The Media Equation: Breaking the Story That Isn’t
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 9:10pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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Reporters have always kept an eye on other reporters. But in the Internet age of instant publishing, what if watching your competitor becomes your whole story?
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The Media Equation: Inviting In a Brash Outsider
Posted: February 15th, 2010, 9:10am EST by By DAVID CARR
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Vice magazine’s libertarianism and cultural literacy brings to mind Playboy in its prime, mixing nudity with in-depth reports from the world’s most troubled spots.
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The Media Equation: Plentiful Content, So Cheap
Posted: February 7th, 2010, 8:21pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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Demand Media pays $15 to $20 on average for an article — videos are about $30 — but the company has no trouble finding steady contributors.
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The Media Equation: In Leno Fiasco, a Window to the Midlife Crisis of NBC
Posted: January 10th, 2010, 11:22pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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Not since New Coke has a storied brand been so thoroughly maimed, and the situation suggests that networks mess with viewing habits at their peril.
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Why Twitter Will Endure
Posted: January 1st, 2010, 9:56pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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So you’re drowning in a sea of information. Perhaps the answer is more information.
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The Media Equation: Tilting Rightward at Journal
Posted: December 13th, 2009, 11:32pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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There are growing indications in the news pages that Rupert Murdoch, a lifelong conservative, is looking to use The Wall Street Journal to play politics.
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The Media Equation: Reality TV’s Glare Hits High Office
Posted: December 7th, 2009, 3:11pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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After the covert atmosphere of the Bush years, the openness of the Obama White House was refreshing. It’s time to close the curtain a bit.
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The Media Equation: Taking Aim at Student Muckrakers
Posted: November 15th, 2009, 8:59pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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A subpoena seeks to test whether Medill students who investigated the murder conviction of Anthony McKinney were actually journalists.
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The Media Equation: Of Layoffs, Bankruptcy and Bonuses
Posted: October 4th, 2009, 10:00pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The Tribune Company wants to pay managers up to $66 million in bonuses, which would be the highest ever paid, even as the company struggles.
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To Cover World, CBS Joins With a News Site
Posted: September 27th, 2009, 11:14pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The news site GlobalPost, which has correspondents in dozens of countries working for it part time, will receive a monthly fee from the network.
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The Media Equation: The Moguls of Mirage, Now Muted
Posted: September 27th, 2009, 11:03pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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They have mystical reputations for lording over huge media conglomerates and our cultural consciousness. But this has little to do with their ability to return value to their shareholders.
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The Media Equation: Investment in a City of Struggles
Posted: September 21st, 2009, 12:57am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Reporters from Time Inc.’s magazines and Web sites are spending a year in Detroit — a city that’s been punished by the implosion of the auto industry, but that began failing many years before.
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The Media Equation: A Struggle Taming Any Debate
Posted: September 6th, 2009, 11:51pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The consumer Web and many traditional media outlets seem to amplify every debate into a frantic broadcast scrum.
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The Media Equation: You’re Gone. But Hey, You Can Reapply.
Posted: August 31st, 2009, 12:48am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Employees at The Journal News in Westchester County were told to reapply for their jobs, but in the end there would be 70 fewer positions.
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The Media Equation: Monocle: A Magazine, an Attitude
Posted: August 24th, 2009, 1:13am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Tyler Brûlé, an advertising executive and magazine editor, works with what he calls patrons to build up his travel publication.
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The Media Equation: AOL Blossoms as Print Retreats
Posted: August 16th, 2009, 10:16pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Its 300 producers in New York are backed by hundreds of freelancers and programmers across the globe who churn out copy and edit photos.
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The Media Equation: For Murdoch, It’s Try, Try Again
Posted: August 10th, 2009, 3:14am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The owner of News Corporation says he wants to go against the grain and “charge for all our news Web sites.”
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The Media Equation: 10 Years Ago, an Omen No One Saw
Posted: August 3rd, 2009, 2:27am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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When Talk magazine was introduced at a decadent party, no one knew what the Internet would do to the business.
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The Media Equation: 10 Years Ago, an Omen No One Saw
Posted: August 3rd, 2009, 2:27am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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When Talk magazine was introduced at a decadent party, no one knew what the Internet would do to the business.
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The Media Equation: 10 Years Ago, an Omen No One Saw
Posted: August 2nd, 2009, 10:06pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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When Talk magazine was introduced at a decadent party, no one knew what the Internet would do to the business.
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Seasoned Celebrity-Watcher Turns From Print to Web
Posted: July 17th, 2009, 12:52am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Bonnie Fuller, a longtime magazine chief, shelves plans to run her own company in favor of taking on a crowd of online competitors.
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A Hollywood Blogger Feared by Executives
Posted: July 17th, 2009, 12:31am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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On her influential blog, Nikki Finke writes about the business side of the entertainment industry.
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The Media Equation: Unhealthy Fixation on Jobs’s Illness
Posted: July 5th, 2009, 9:50pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Last week, Steve Jobs returned to Apple, precisely when he said he would, but that didn’t stop the prurient demands to know the details of his health.
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The Media Equation: A Publisher Stumbles Publicly at the Post
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 11:29pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Katharine Weymouth, the publisher of The Washington Post, has drawn criticism for a plan to hold sponsored salons at her home.
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The Media Equation: If The Globe Were Sold, What Price?
Posted: June 14th, 2009, 11:12pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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People with track records in valuing media properties were asked to assess The Boston Globe. Their answers were surprising.
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Even Forbes Is Pinching Pennies
Posted: June 14th, 2009, 11:11pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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The recession is testing Forbes magazine and the family behind it, long symbols of the fruits of capitalism.
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The Media Equation: In One City, Two Soirees Ages Apart
Posted: June 8th, 2009, 12:24pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
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In Midtown, a farewell to an era of print’s dominance, while downtown, the new titans celebrated their arrival.
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The Media Equation: Cast Out, but Still Reporting
Posted: June 1st, 2009, 1:04am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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At NewJerseyNewsroom.com, reporters pay for their own business cards but still do the work that they love.
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The Media Equation: Newsweek’s Journalism of Fourth and Long
Posted: May 24th, 2009, 1:23am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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, left, a classically cluttered general-interest magazine that covered the cultural waterfront. , right, minimally decorated essays with arguments that dive deep into Beltway machinations.Newsweek’s recent makeover cannot gild the cold fact that it remains a weekly magazine in a continuous news cycle.
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Portfolio Magazine Shut, a Victim of Recession
Posted: April 28th, 2009, 1:51am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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Portfolio, a business magazine that Condé Nast began publishing in April 2007 with much fanfare, will cease publication immediately.
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The Media Equation: A Disaster Still Raw, Years Later
Posted: April 6th, 2009, 7:38am EDT by By DAVID CARR
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“Treme,” an HBO series by David Simon, tells the story of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The series is separated by just enough time to offer insight without being overly detached.
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The Media Equation: This Just in: The Market Is Still Dead
Posted: February 16th, 2009, 2:34pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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Financial journalists still can’t figure out how to cover the recession.
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The Media Equation: Can Sundance Get a Break?
Posted: January 19th, 2009, 11:25am EST by By DAVID CARR
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While creator Robert Redford is criticized that the film festival is far too commercial, the knock on Sundance this year has been that it will not be commercial enough.
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The Media Equation: A Star Turn for a Sheriff on Fox TV
Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:39pm EST by By DAVID CARR
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With his reputation for being tough on crime and his way with a good quote, Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona would seem to be a reality show waiting to happen.