Sep 9, 2011
This November the Global Editor’s Network will bring together a great lineup of news editors and speakers from around the world. (Disclosure: I am speaking at the conference, but I am not an organizer.) Among them are friends like Joi Ito, who now heads of the MIT Media Lab and who launched my blogging career
Jul 6, 2010
The Associated Press content charging machine is up and running. To excerpt the words “financial terms were not disclosed” from an article about about Amazon buying Woot, the AP wants me (or any blogger) to pay US$17.50. To me, this raises quite a few legal questions: Does that mean that I need to pay for
Apr 27, 2010
Attending Hong Kong University’s International Media Conference today. Below are some snippets from a panel I took part in on the sustainable models for journalism. (We did not find the answer). Impressive team from HKU has been throwing up multimedia as it happens. Behind the team has been Diane Stormont using Cover it Live as
Feb 24, 2010
Speaking at the WAN/IFRA Editor’s Forum in Singapore today, along with Reg Chua, editor of Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post. In his speech Reg highlighted three interesting sites worth checking out for the way they relate to the future of news gathering: Living Stories: An experimental Google site that aggregates articles around news as
Jan 19, 2010
Just came across this photo from the 2004 US presidential campaign. I followed Kerry, Cheney and Edwards. In order to inject some fun into the extreme level of travel (sometimes 3 cities in a day) we started a game of Airplane Wheel Roulette. Here’s how it works: You chalk off the wheel into numbered sections
Jan 11, 2010
While at Le Web last month, I met up with Marissa Mayer backstage, where we chatted about the future of newspapers in the era of Google Newspapers need to become more “webby” to keep up in an increasingly disrupted news industry, Marissa said. Consumers demand hyper personalised news streams and digital portability, so newspapers need
Nov 29, 2009
Although I now spend my time living and writing about Social Media, when cut my veins still bleed ink. Newspaper ink. Newspapers are often called the first draft of history, but they also occasionally rise to the quality of poetry. This is The New York Sun’s editorial on Lindbergh’s remarkable, courageous and foolhardy solo flight
Oct 20, 2009
This chart is taken from the fascinating WAN IFRA research report on the state of newspapers in China, India and Southeast Asia. Not surprising to see Hong Kong off the charts, with a combined paid-for and free daily circulation of 590 copies per thousand adults. What is interesting about Hong Kong is that a huge
Sep 30, 2009
Eric Weiner, a friend, bestselling author of Geography of Bliss and fellow former foreign correspondent lists the options for our breed. This list was originally composed thinking in terms of a 40-something foreign correspondent who had spent enough years living rough out in the field. Now, with the slashing of newsrooms and foreign budgets, some
Sep 30, 2009
Len Apcar, Asia editor of The International Herald Tribune, invited the Asia advertising director of the IHT, Dominic Ciafardini, and myself to join his class at Hong Kong University for a discussion about social media and the future of newspapers. Great discussion! Thanks to all who took part. This is a video taken of the
Jul 30, 2009
The Social Media space for Economists on Twitter reveals an interesting Bubble around Paul Krugman. (Please note: There is an important – and amusing – update at the bottom of this posting.) 1- Many followers Among the top 20 economists on Twitter, it appears that Paul Krugman is the most important, by rank of followers.
Jul 4, 2009
There’s a number of interesting e-reader experiments going on in Asia: 1. Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun teamed up with Fujitsu to experiment at a Tokyo Cafe earlier this year. According to TechOn, customers of “Termina Kinshicho Fujiya Restaurant” could pick up one of four Fujitsu Frontech “FLEPias” (pictured here) for free between Feb 4 and 13,
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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...
