About a month ago, a New York Times columnist called Nicholas D Kristof penned an Op-Ed that said that Backpage.com, a website owned by New York's Village Voice Media. The article was one of several that accused Backpage.com of profiting from child prostitution and trafficking. Even though there is little evidence of that, and much of the supposed evidence turns out to be fiction, Village Voice Media is under pressure.
The New York Times was a leader in mass-market paywall concept. Now it's revising its plan. It marks a fundamental shift in the way that customers see news more than a shift in the way the NYT se...
Radio: Singapore's little-known independent radio service to closeThis writer is a very frequent visitor to Singapore and yet, until today, did not know that there was an alternative to the state owned MediaCorp for radio services. All the more surprising is th...
Media: Publisher v Republisher - who has the Rights?Today, Google News - as every day - "indexes" news articles. I takes extracts and republishes them. Newspapers are, for the most part, happy with the idea that a company spends its own...
Publishing: Jefferson Galt's novel "The Kiss" and the power of the free Valentine's Day GiftWhen Jefferson Galt's novel, "The Kiss" was published for the Kindle and other devices in January 2012, sales were slow. Galt is not a well-known author and his "Pete, Fay, Love&qu...
Media: the power of the misread blogBT.Com, the front-end of the megalith that the company formerly known as British Telecom, runs a kind of on-line attention grabber called a "portal." Part of that portal is that it enga...
Media: Headlines that say "oops.""Boyonce to play Micheal Jackson" screams the headline from London's Metro newspaper in the Google News section. Ju...
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