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Live at Mesh 07 @ 1409h: Should Old Media Be Afraid of New Media?, Part 2

by Tony Hung on May 30, 2007

More: CB: The nature of broadband providers make it such that things will be open and transparent Question: “What advice would you have for the old media institutions re: their conception of authority?” RS: The most important thing is to (…)

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Live at Mesh 07 @ 1340h: Should Old Media Be Afraid of New Media?

by Tony Hung on May 30, 2007

Panelist discussion with Loren Feldman, Rachel Skylar, Cynthia Brumfield: CB: broadcasters have never relied on on advertising revenues in the same way that traditional print media has; and yet they are loosing their audience to new and diverging media. Physical (…)

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The Trouble With “The Decline In News” Has Nothing To Do With Journalists

by Tony Hung on May 30, 2007

Grains of truth in an otherwise long rant about the changing face of journalism.

Road to Mesh: For Journalists, Where Does “Amateur” End and “Professional” Begin?

by Tony Hung on May 24, 2007

Medill’s Scholarship for a Master’s in Journalism got me thinking about the contiumm of what it means to be an amateur and what it means to be a professional — in terms of journalism anyway.

Has Google News Capitulated To Newspapers? (Is Sam Zell Celebrating Somewhere?)

by Tony Hung on May 20, 2007

My, my, my. Just a few weeks after the hew and cry over how idiotic and ludicrous Sam Zell’s comments were about trying to work “something” out with those “boys” at Google for Google News ripping off content at the (…)

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Zell Must Be Sharpening His Knives: Print Revenues Sink, While Google’s Go Gangbusters

by Tony Hung on April 21, 2007

Sam Zell gave himself two weeks — and in those two weeks there have been some pretty depressing numbers. The ball’s in your court Mr. Zell. What will you do?

Zell’s Blustering With Google Hides The Real Problem With Newspapers

by Tony Hung on April 8, 2007

Looks like billionaire real estate tycoon Sam Zell has jumped right into the newspapers “alive or dead” meme with his 8 billion dollar purchase of the Tribune media glomerate. There’s a lot of discussion roiling around the blogosphere about things, (…)

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