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
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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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