Saturday, May 19, 2007

Proof I'm Not Alone

Jon Friedman's MarketWatch Media Web commentary Friday had a great profile on new media pioneer Elizabeth Spiers.

Friedman writes: "Old media have suffered self-inflicted wounds, Spiers contends, because they prefer to jump on a trend instead of trying to come up with something wholly original. Their mentality seems to be to throw money at a problem, rather than daring to be different."

Amen.

Read it all here:

Blogger Spiers knows where old media go wrong

More later,


Mark

1 comment:

Suzanne said...

I've often touted Debbie Galant, former Jersey columnist at The New York Times as someone who'd created a successful hyperlocal news source.

www.baristanet.com

Read all about it here:

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/01/16/gl_brsta.html

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