Andrey Mir’s previous book, “Human as Media”, was a little masterpiece that accounted for the large transformations brought about by the “emancipation of authorship” in the internet. His latest book, “Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers”, may be the most… Read More ›
Newspapers are in decline because of economic and technological factors, but their life span is measured by demographic factors. They will exist as an industrial product for no longer than the mid-2030s. Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization… Read More ›
Traditional media owners may still control the news media, but they no longer control the news. Under the idea of ownership as a filter of the Propaganda model, Herman and Chomsky grouped together three intertwined factors: “size, ownership, and profit… Read More ›
The news has broken that the Correspondent (De Correspondent’s English-language site), is shutting down on December 31.[1] The case of The/De Correspondent was the biggest, after the Guardian, example of the membership model. And while the surrogates of membership that… Read More ›
On the internet, advertisers never know what dramatic headline will be placed next to their advertised brand. Therefore, ad money, when given a choice, would prefer not to deal with this content at all. Media buyers confirm that, Brands don’t… Read More ›
Bad news plus good crowd makes good engagement. A teaser on the main page of the New York Times’ website on May 14, 2020 read: Almost 3 million U.S. workers filed for unemployment last week. Although the weekly tally has… Read More ›
“What happens when journalism is everywhere?”, Mathew Ingram asked in 2011. Nine years and one Trump term later, the answer is here. On November 15, 2011, soon after midnight, the New York riot police started a raid to evict the… Read More ›
Having lost their traditional business to the internet, the news media are forced to sell ‘something else’. But selling something else, not content or ads, makes them sellers of something else, not the news media. Years ago, resort photographers had… Read More ›
On the podcast this week, Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers: The Media After Trump by Andrey Mir. Next time: Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann and Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid,… Read More ›
By the end of the 20th century, the business model of the media took its last and most optimal form: the media sold news downwards whilst simultaneously selling the audience upwards, to advertisers, creating a “supportive selling environment” (Herman) or… Read More ›
