Sep 21, 2011
Following a panel discussion at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong on social media and journalism, Marketing Interactive did a quick video interview. They summed up my comments as: “Social media is a bigger threat than opportunity.”
Apr 8, 2011
Yahoo Southeast Asia appears to have developed a rather successful formula for mixing old-style journalism with new media. ComScore ranks the portal as number one for news in four of five Southeast Asian markets. The key to this success has been reach and diversity of content, according to the site’s managing editor, Alan Soon. I
Feb 21, 2011
Apple’s move to charge publishers 30 percent for subscriptions has raised a lot of interest around the business models for those selling content. A recent report on e-readers by Bain and Company opens with the above graph of declining turnover seen by the music industry. (UPDATE: Came across an interesting critique of this chart on
Sep 16, 2010
Flattered to notice that my blog has made it into the Power 150, a ranking run by Ad Age of the best marketing blogs on the web. They use a range of metrics to determine the rankings.
Apr 19, 2010
My friend Jennifer Corriero of TakingITGlobal asked for a quick contribution for an exhibit she is putting together about change and how it happens. She asked me to write about how journalists see crisis relating to change. My quick thoughts: Journalists spend their time going against the crowd. When there was an earthquake in Taiwan,
Oct 12, 2009
Gawker has a striking and ever growing memoriam page for magazines that died in the US in 2008/2009. (No, Time magazine is not dead. That is Time Style and Design)
May 9, 2009
Last night, my frustration about the casual deletion of the IHT archives and links to articles boiled over into an open letter to The New York Times publisher, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. No word from Mr. Sulzberger or the NY Times yet, but I have been heartened by postings of support from fellow bloggers and
Mar 21, 2009
Christine Brendle is the Managing Director of Dow Jones Consumer Media Group in Asia. Based in Hong Kong, she has management responsibility for the commercial operations of The Wall Street Journal Asia and the regional web site asia.WSJ.com, the monthly Far Eastern Economic Review, the Chinese-language web site Chinese WSJ.com, and spearheads business development initiatives
Mar 21, 2009
The global economic crisis has added new and unprecendented pressures to the media industry. Already reeling from the pace of change brought by the Internet, media companies around the world now face further economic pressures. What will happen and what can media companies do? I look forward to moderating an event in Hong Kong on
Feb 1, 2009
The International Women’s Media Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2009 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, which is open to women journalists who focus on human rights and social justice. Applications deadline is 15 April 2009. The fellowship allows one woman journalist to spend the academic year of September 2009 to May 2010 in a tailored
Jan 27, 2009
When not updating his buzzmachine blog or writing a media column for The Guardian newspaper, Jeff Jarvis is a professor and director of the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. In the course of these activities he has lately been thinking a lot about What Would Google Do – so much so
Jan 27, 2009
Jennifer Schenker recently quit Businessweek to found Informilo, a media website linking big technology companies with startups. The site aims for maximum global reach – Informilo means ‘news bulletin’ in Esperanto and Schenker is pioneering journalism 3.0 with a focus on what she calls the global innovation pipeline. A journalist for over 25 years, she
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
