Riptide on the Road
With the launch of Riptide’s second essay by John Geddes, we went back out to talk about the project at a few events around the country. If we’re in your city, we’d love to see you. Completed: Monday,...
View ArticleRiptide Event at Boston University – October 26
Please join us at BU on Monday, October 26 at 5:30PM for a discussion of the Riptide project, including new interviews conducted by John Geddes, Ex-Managing Editor at The New York Times We will hold...
View ArticleVol 2 — The Tech Beat and Site Changes
Writing the second act, when you didn’t write the first is always a challenge but I got lucky on three counts. The tech reporters I talked with were, as the interviews show, uniformly chatty, fun and...
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Tech Beat: Reporters Covering the Digital Era Assess the News Business’s...
Attendees at the annual PC Forum, Phoenix, Arizona, February 5-8, 1984. Among those pictured are, standing from left, Michele Preston, from L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, Bill Gates, from...
View ArticleYahoo, Marissa Mayer and the Future of Journalism
Nicholas Carlson’s piece in The New York Times Magazine this week attempts to answer the question: “What happened when Marissa Mayer tried to be Steve Jobs?” It’s a blistering critique, characterizing...
View ArticleCould Business Information Services Have Saved Newspapers?
Early on in the Riptide project I suggested to John Huey and Paul Sagan that we develop a “sidebar” in the area of Business Information Services. My thought was that newspapers were among the early...
View ArticleMr Penny-and-a-Half
Henry Blodget’s Riptide interview is one of my favorites. In a sea of mostly negative prognostications about the future of quality journalism, Henry stands almost alone as an unrelenting optimist. His...
View ArticleHBS, the NYT and the Star System
My first post on the excellent New York Times article about business model disruption at the Harvard Business School compared the School’s attempts to sustain its existing economics with similar...
View ArticleChristensen versus Porter and The New York Times
The New York Times is running a brilliant article today about the Harvard Business School and the emerging Internet technologies that might destroy its business model. In it, the authors turn to two...
View ArticleThe Great Unwatched
The trend of analog marketing dollars becoming digital dimes supporting online content isn’t abating. Earlier this week, David Segal in The Times literally undressed the online video ad market and...
View ArticleWill evolving rules around net neutrality further hamper creating new models...
It’s difficult to miss the current debate over what’s known as net neutrality, or the rules that govern how the Internet works. Last week the New York Times proclaimed, “F.C.C., in a Shift, Backs Fast...
View ArticlePublisher as Platform – A Perspective from Jonathan Glick
Jonathan Glick, the founder and CEO of Sulia, wrote a terrific piece on the idea of publisher as platform for Recode today. (Full disclosure: I am on the Sulia Board of Directors.) Glick begins with a...
View ArticleThe Bubble’s beside the point (Part II)
Today, The New York Times reports a “major expansion” at the Washington Post. We spent a lot of time interviewing folks at the Post for Riptide. We went back to their earliest online investments in...
View ArticleThe Bubble’s beside the point
The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times all ran articles this week on the rapidly changing digital news landscape. All explore whether the recent funding of several digital...
View ArticleBuzzFeed, Vice and the next generation in serious news?
Noteworthy story in The Independent by Ian Burrell pointing out the investments being made at Vice and Buzzfeed to fund original journalism, including full-on investigative reporting. The opportunity...
View ArticleGolden Age
Henry Blodget offered the most optimistic point-of-view among our interviewees with regard to the state of modern journalism. His basic premise is that there has never been more good information...
View ArticleThe Washington Post Relies on Riptide to Explain the Forces that Forced the...
When we started working on Riptide last winter, we hoped it would be a future resource for researchers and reporters alike trying to understand what happened to the legacy news business when it ran...
View ArticleAnother Take on the “Original Sin” of Publishers
We spend a great deal of time in the Riptide interviews and essay looking at what’s been called the Original Sin of the news business. That is, when news business owners (mainly newspaper and magazine...
View ArticleA thoughtful critique in paidContent
Mathew Ingram’s thoughtful article in paidContent on this project raises the question of whether we, the authors, seek to absolve industry leaders (and, by extension, ourselves) of responsibility for...
View ArticleWho we interviewed
We started by identifying the institutions that we believed were central to the Riptide story — the change of news through the rise of digital technology, beginning around 1980. Then we sought to...
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