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The New Establishment

by · May 31, 2011

Marshall Kirkpatrick passed me in a hotel corridor in March. He was rushing into his panel at South by Southwest in Austin. I was just leaving one. He nodded and said, “Check out the site. Just broke something potentially big.” The news of Google Circles wound up being not as big a deal as, say, Watergate, but in that moment I knew we were firmly planted in a New Establishment.

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Sorry Journalists, We Don’t Need You Anymore

by · December 19, 2007

The facts are these:

  • Paid newspaper subscriptions have been steadily declining by a 2-3 percent rate every six months since 2005 (Editor & Publisher)
  • Several major daily newspapers including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald and Dallas Morning News have experienced steeper declines in subscriptions in 2007. (Editor & Publisher)
  • Viewership for evening news has decreased one million viewers per year for 25 straight years (Nielsen Media Research)
  • 2007 featured the least-watched week in recorded history for the big four television networks (Associated Press)
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