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• The quantum theory of media

  By Andrey Mir on January 16, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  “The future of the book is the blurb,” as McLuhan once said. The news teaser, not even the article, is now the quantum of media content. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). What is the unit… Read More ›

• Martin Gurri on “Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers”

  By Andrey Mir on January 6, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Scheduling the extinction of newspapers

  By Andrey Mir on January 3, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  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. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of… Read More ›

• Ownership of the media: it is not what you think it must be

  By Andrey Mir on December 28, 2020 • ( 8 )

  

  Traditional media owners may still control the news media, but they no longer control the news. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). Under the idea of ownership as a filter of the Propaganda model, Herman and… Read More ›

• Membership as a new business model and the failure of “The Correspondent”

  By Andrey Mir on December 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Advertising-driven media: merchants of happiness

  By Andrey Mir on December 7, 2020 • ( 7 )

  

  Digital advertising tools have simply and candidly exposed what was known in the industry long ago: advertising does not like the news because the news is often bad news. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). On… Read More ›

• Negativity bias takes the lead when news is paid by readers, not advertisers

  By Andrey Mir on November 27, 2020 • ( 8 )

  

  Bad news plus good crowd makes good engagement. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). A teaser on the main page of the New York Times’ website on May 14, 2020 read: Almost 3 million U.S. workers… Read More ›

• The news media: watchdogs prefer the paywalled garden

  By Andrey Mir on November 24, 2020 • ( 7 )

  

  “What happens when journalism is everywhere?”, Mathew Ingram asked in 2011. Nine years and one Trump term later, the answer is here. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). On November 15, 2011, soon after midnight, the… Read More ›

• Journalism in search of a cute little monkey

  By Andrey Mir on November 20, 2020 • ( 10 )

  

  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. A chapter from “Postjournalism and… Read More ›

• Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers on Podcast “Worker & Parasite”

  By Andrey Mir on November 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

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