A new study out by the Pew Internet and American Life Project tells us how consumers get their news. No surprise: 92 percent of Americans use multiple platforms (television, newspapers, radio, the Internet) to get news on a typical day. But…

Apparently, the newspaper industry has finally had enough – or at least the New York Times has. Word came out on Wednesday that the New York Times would start charging for its online content.

The Times has tweaked its model from all-everything…

In October I wrote a post about the fact that the majority of newspaper and magazine publishers were entertaining the idea of charging for online content. The biggest problem for all publishers of online content is finding a magic bullet, not…

I’ve periodically written about the plight of print publishers and their reluctant move to the digital world. One of the looming issues for these publishers when they make the transition to online content is how to get consumers to pay…

A few short years ago, who could have imagined how precarious business conditions would be for traditional newspapers and magazines. As 2009 comes to a close, it marks the end of another dismal year for print media. Symbolic of the…

When Steven Colbert recently suggested that newspapers should just add porn sections if they were serious about competing online, it was funny and sad at the same time. Newspapers serve an important part in any healthy democracy. But if they’re going…

As has been noted both in this space and elsewhere, traditional news media is in trouble. Not only have papers like the Seattle Post Intelligencer and the Rocky Mountain News shut down their presses, but other big names are cutting…

Unless you have been living under a rock, you are aware of California (and other) states efforts to copy New York and collect sales tax on affiliate initiated transactions. Collection of sales tax is important, and states are right to…

The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) just shut down after 150 years, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased print operations, and the Philadelphia Inquirer went bankrupt. Countless other printed newspapers, large and small, are on the skids.

All of them have been caught with their presses down.…

This whole issue is one of doublespeak. Net Neutrality is really free and open access for all, yet the opposition calls it excessive regulation of the Internet. Senator Ted Stevens kicked this off back in 2006 when he said, “Until somebody tells me what net neutrality means, until they can give me a definition, I don’t want it in there. Right now, nobody knows what it means, so why put it in the bill?”