…the same decision, to offer [The Times] website for free. Many people have said that this was a good decision. Many people have said this was a terrible decision. There are people, in fact, who we’ve interviewed, that are on both sides of that. I jus…
…nline. Moreover, at the largest newspaper-owned websites like nytimes.com, there was concern that a pay model would significantly erode the audience and accompanying advertising revenue that had been garnered over the past 15 years. Ultimately, The Ti…
…arrative simply because they are business-news companies. Net, I think Bloomberg was a crucial piece of the evolution of the Internet and news. Bloomberg provided a test of the value of news to an important consumer/customer base; it was an experiment…
…direct connectivity to the public and now-commercialized Internet in a service that would come to be known as Roadrunner, named for the speedy cartoon character from the Warner Bros. stable. Walter Isaacson It worked pretty well. We created something…
…often viewed by those marketers as a cost-of-sale expense, rather than an advertising investment. This encouraged people with ad budgets to look for more ways to throw money at Google. Tim Armstrong, now CEO of AOL, but then Google’s first head of ad…
…n exploiting this new medium. Digital ad revenue was rocketed up through the late 1990s — until 2000. Source: IAB. In retrospect, though, during the mid-1990s the old-line publishers were mostly repurposing their print products and not investing much…
…striking a deal with Microsoft for a dot-com news play. Tom Rogers, an attorney by training, was head of NBC Cable at the time. Explore our full interview with Merrill Brown Merrill Brown founding editor, MSNBC Explore our full interview There were…
…ent. It’s not. Obviously not. Still wheat-to-chaff ratios. But a lot of it is very good. You’ve got a very open system. You also have opportunities, but it does require, as I said, us, when we look at the future of journalism, to rethink all the model…
…n England, was a wire service whose main competitors were financial news companies like Dow Jones and Bloomberg. It had relatively few clients among U.S. newspapers, many of whom were members of the Associated Press. Graves, along with two other execu…
…w Sullivan Arianna Huffington Tim Berners-Lee No, I think the media companies are in that business. They have content, and they move it out. You’d be doing that with physical paper, or you’d be doing that with TV. Then you look at the web, and obvious…
…t dimes and quarters and dollars from us in an automated and painless way. Journalism needs its E-Z Pass.) Bruce Sagan, Publisher, Hyde Park Herald, Chicago, Illinois….
…t’s a successful technology at all, it becomes commonplace. People accept it as part of their everyday lives. A Viewtron user in south Florida, 1980. The message on the screen: “Doug I like you very much. I want to know which of us you like better, Ka…
…15 years before Apple introduced it. The company was the first journalism company to partner with AOL, the first to work with Netscape at the Mercury Center, the first to follow Christensen’s prescript to break out a separate digital operation. Yet, i…
…-million-dollar [investment] into two-and-a-half billion dollars. [Authors’ Note: Leonsis says $4 billion.] But it was a hedging strategy….In retrospect, we could have cut a deal there. We could have owned and controlled those channels on AOL. As it p…
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