Shutting down of the online IHT and merging it into New York Times made me sad – I read both online and paper versions when based in Jakarta, Singapore, Amsterdam and Milan: In August, ad revenue at the New York Times Media Group, including both the Times and Tribune, dropped 15.1% from the same period last year. Internet advertising revenue increased 7.9% for the company’s entire news media group, driven in part by display advertising gains. Still, the company’s overall advertising revenue fell just over 1% between the first and second quarters of the year, from roughly $432.2 million to Continue Reading…
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:52 pm Tagged with: Advertising, Benchmark Co., display advertising gains, Edward Atorino, heritage media, Internet advertising revenue, New York Times Media Group, news media group, newspaper analyst, Online Communities, overall advertising revenue, Social Media Australia, social networks, social web, the New York Times, The Times, Tribune, USD
Oct 112008
And they say Heritage Media is not dead! Pfft. It’s pretty rough when even the newsreader would rather be on a social media site than read the News: 3AW presenter misses bulletin for Facebook THE team at 3AW have been instructed to watch their computer usage after the radio station missed an hourly news bulletin because the newsreader was on Facebook. Last Sunday at 4pm the news theme was broadcast but was followed by a series of advertisements. According to an insider, a producer raced to the newsroom to see what was happening and found the reader on the computer. Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:04 am Tagged with: Facebook, heritage media, Jane Metlikovec, Megan McNaught, Megan Miller, Online Communities, producer, Radio, social media, Social Media Australia
Oct 082008
I’m listed as #4 in Australia in B&T Online (p 34) that is one of those locked down page turn-ey things. And my link is wrong, as are most bloggers because it uses heritage media hypens to break the line. (for the record, its laurelpapworth.com not www.silkcharm-blogspot.com) I wonder why ProBlogger fell off the list – which is clearly based on Advertising Age global Power 150, and quite different from Julian’s original list. Problogger is #1 blogger for Australia – streets ahead of the rest of us, in fact #36 in the world and not just marketing. Darren Rowse has Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:59 pm Tagged with: advertising age, Darren Rowse, heritage media, social media, Social Media Australia, www.silkcharm-blogspot.com
Oct 072008
I’m a bad bad blogger – it’s been nearly a week since my last confession. Errr, blog post. A picture of Citizen Journalism: Photo on Flickr by Yea I Knit – under creative commons (by, no $, =) Note: 2,062 Diggs brought in 85,000 views. Confirming that a very small percentage bother to vote, though many, many click through. Tags: Citizen Journalism, social media, social networks, web 2.0, Online Communities, heritage media
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:45 pm Tagged with: heritage media, Online Communities, social media, social networks, web 2.0
Sep 252008
This week’s Media Report (Radio National) is on ensuring civility on blogs and social networks. The page Listen Now Download The question we were asked to address was this: how do you encourage civility between commenters on your blog? Margaret Simons starts with a Taxonomy of Blog types. 1. Pamphleteering2. Digest3. Advocacy4. Speciality, niche5. Exhibition6. Gatewatcher – media watchers7. Diary8. Advertisement9. News blog – sourcing real news. I think she missed a couple. The Event based blog (short term, for a specific event or ritual, such as a wedding). Education or course blogs with an index and activities, such as Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:23 am Tagged with: Andrew Bartlett, George Megalogenis, heritage media, journalist, king, laurel papworth, mainstream media, Margaret Simons, media watchers, Online Communities, Queen, real journalist, Senator, social media, Social Media Australia, Social Network Strategist, social networks, working journalist
Sep 032008
Brilliant article from Mark Day today: I’ve just grabbed a few paragraphs, read the whole thing yourself ) Fairfax media puts future of newspapers under spotlight There are three kinds of news: happening, manufactured and revealed. Happening news is a jumbo jet explosion at 10,000m or a car crash at peak hour. It can be of great consequence, affecting the lives of many, or it can be inconsequential by dint of it being far away, on another continent. (more) Manufactured news is, at its most important, the outcome of, say, a prime ministerial press conference to announce a tax cut Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:39 pm Tagged with: Facebook, heritage media, journalist, Online Communities, reporter, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks
Sep 032008
Clipping: Heritage Media have a cake fundraising day. Revenues are tight. I made Duncan Riley giggle the other night by calling Mainstream Media or Old Media or print/tv/radio media “Heritage Media”. It’s not my term – but I forget where I heard it first. But it stuck. (Duncan Riley’s Forget MSM or Old Media, Heritage Media is the Term post) It actually is quite nice – one thinks of listing The Australian and Fin Review on a heritage National Trust list, volunteers manning (personning?) the desks and strict injunctions against changing anything – the masthead, the font, the bylines. Perhaps Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 4:31 pm Tagged with: Bronwen Clune, Citizen Media Proprietor, duncan riley, Fin Review, heritage media, media/digital barbarians, National Trust, Online Communities, print/tv/radio media, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, Sydney, The Australian and Fin Review, the Term post
Jul 162008
How strange! I was reading Stilgherrian‘s rant – or, open letter – to traditional journalists: Dear Journalists, how can you spout all that stuff about “standards” and then go back to your mucky business? Oh, that’s right. You’re a proper journalist. It’s all the others… Actually, I know why you’re so bitter about “those bloggers”. You worked hard on that student newspaper or street rag while living in uni-student poverty, put up with the abuse of grumpy old chain-smoking subs who bawled you out over trivial spelling mistakes, put up with the unpredictable patronage of editors who promoted everyone else Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:06 pm Tagged with: BONAFIDE JOURNALIST, Di, food reviews, For Us All, heritage media, journalist, mainstream media, Online Communities, Princess, Roy Morgan Did, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, stilgherrian, travel guides, travel writers, Twitter, unethical traditional media behavior
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