Showing posts with label Demand Media. Show all posts
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Monday, June 7, 2010

re 6/6/10 MondayNote.com: Mediocrity is king; Katharine Weymouth and the Future of Newspapers on NPR's Diane Rehm Show at 11 a.m.

Came across this excellent piece of analysis at MondayNote.com while looking for something else. Isn't that the way it always goes late on Sunday nights?

http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/06/06/mediocrity-is-king/

Mediocrity is king



My favorite excerpt from above:
By allowing such a degradation in its premium advertising space (a home page is supposed to be just that), the HuffPo acknowledges that its content is, in fact, cheap. It therefore admits that volume, rather than targeting or relevance, drives the value of its content.

Of course, I like that because it tends to correspond to my intuition about the HuffPo, but... on the other hand, I actually read Arianna's book on Picasso when it first came out over 20 years ago, when she had a very different persona.

FYI: On NPR's Diane Rehm Show on Monday at 11 a.m.

Katharine Weymouth and the Future of Newspapers

Her great-grandfather bought the Washington Post during the Great Depression. Her grandmother brought it to prominence during Watergate. Katharine Weymouth on the challenges she faces as publisher of the paper in the digital age.

You also may want to check out this
Aspen Institute event at FORA.tv/
Washington Post CEO Katharine Weymouth on Future of News

http://fora.tv/2008/11/24/Washington_Post_CEO_Katharine_Weymouth_on_Future_of_News#chapter_02


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