Press Row

In every news industry besides sports, blogs and websites are increasingly considered among the elite sources for information. In tech, some of the most influential outlets and journalists are bloggers or web-only, like Gizmodo, Engadget, and TechCrunch, to name a few of Technorati’s most popular blogs. The Huffington Post is one of the most read [...]

To the casual fan, the world of sports media looks stronger than ever.
Networks like ESPN/ABC and FOX offer unprecedented levels of coverage, both online and on television. (Just look at NBC’s projected coverage of the Olympics–a great read from The Globe and Mail in Canada.) The blogging realm gains more and more steam, with thousands [...]

Lost in today’s celebration of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s six newest members (including former 49ers great Fred Dean) was the 40th annual presentation of the Dick McCann Memorial Award.

Per the Pro Football HOF’s website: “The Dick McCann Memorial Award, which is named after the first director of the Pro Football Hall of [...]

Theory Post 1: The reports of my death were…actually, right on target (death of the newspaper industry)
I talked last time about the rapid decline of the newspaper industry, along with some interesting numbers to back up just how much hot water the print media is in.
This time, let’s think a little bit about the impact [...]

I suppose we can start here with a fairly obvious statement:
Newspaper readership is declining. Rapidly.
Even one of the biggest names in newspapers over the last 10 years admits the genre that made him famous is a goner. The industry is bleeding out their best talent, either through buyouts (Kornheiser, Sam Smith, Jackie Mack, probably tons [...]