The Media Equation: A Warning From Behind the Curtain
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Media consumers have been watching the writersâ strike from the sidelines, but they might take notice if the awards season is replaced by marches and pickets.
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Is it time to turn down the volume on TV news? A handful of developments this fall suggest a brewing backlash against opinionated news, most personified by those cable segments that set people up to argue political points, or outshout each other.
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The news media have always helped shape public perception of markets. But exactly how much the press influences mass consumer behavior is subject to debate.
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News sites may be tempted by an advertising scheme that lets them profit from ads linked to selected words within an article. But publishers who value a separation of editorial and advertising content should steer clear. By Adam L. Penenberg.
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The upcoming presidential election has become a media battle, which online has been playing a huge role in. Video distribution has been a dominating factor and a key component for presidential candidates.   Two videos of candidate Hillary Clinton have sparked great attention from TV and Radio media and got the most attention. One had [...]
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Paul Abrahams' comparison of blogs with the CB radio fad may or may not prove to be right, but too many of us are missing the wider influence of user-generated media.   It is not just bloggers who are influencing corporate reputations online.
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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Readers sound off on the latest headlines.
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The following is adapted from an article published Wednesday on CQ.com.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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Also: Distortion-free lens tech puts things in a negative light. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Behind the lens: A Times photographer's contemporaneous account from ground zero.
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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We all want to know about the hotel heiressâs time in jail. The question is whether news organizations should give her money to tell us. A media-ethics expert weighs in.
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The online news business has a curious imbalance: Far more men read news on the Web than women. For online publishers seeking to steal advertising money from TV, this is a boon. But editors are worried something is off-kilter with online news. By Laila Weir.
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It is always slightly amusing when journalists compose self-righteous articles on the evils of cocaine abuse. To put it no higher, the media do not exactly comprise a drug-free zone.
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The human beings behind the business headlines can sometimes become lost.