Feb 4 2010, 10:40 am by Derek Thompson Facebook’s page view explosion in the last months of 2009 — plus new evidence that it is becoming the major driver of news — has some analysts wondering whether the site is taking over Google News and personalized Google Reader accounts as America’s leading information hub. To me the issue [...]

There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models. As a nerd, I’m excited by the new tech, particularly mobile, including new display systems and pervasive connectivity. However, the tech is secondary, not nearly as important as repairing some current issues with trust and curation.As a news media guy, [...]

How to think about news in the link economy By Peter Osnos The buzz inside Google is overwhelmingly positive about what the company does and how we will all benefit from the results—including the embattled denizens of newspapers and magazines who increasingly see Google as an enabler of their demise. Barely a decade ago, Google received [...]

In a year when newspaper cutbacks have made their own headlines, strong evidence of the changing nature of media use in America may be found in a single statistic: Internet users report a large increase in time reading online newspapers, according to the eighth annual Surveying the Digital Future projected conducted by USC Annenberg’s Center [...]

De Krant: Het wordt nooit meer zoals het was Is lokaal nieuws onmisbaar? Jazeker: veel mensen willen weten waar die rookwolken gister vandaan kwamen, of er een nieuwe weg door hun achtertuin wordt aangelegd, wie er overleden is, wat de aanbiedingen bij de Aldi zijn, welke tandarts weekenddienst heeft en wat voor weer het wordt… [...]