Circle me on Google+Big media might be cumbersome and occasionally numb-skulled when to comes to digital, but they’ve got deep pockets, and they’re not totally stupid. They hire smart young minds, who know what’s going on. They realize that digital offers a huge opportunity and a challenge. And they’re acting on it."
— Hamish McKenzie, It’s Time to Stop Talking About the Death of Big Media | PandoDaily
The way I do most of my posts is I think, how can I get someone to press ‘like’ on this?"
— BuzzFeed writer Matt Stopera on writing for sharability, via Businessweek
Aggregating and rehashing stories might trick Google’s algorithm, but for a story to move on Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, or Reddit, actual human beings need to think the piece is worth sharing. That is a higher bar but that is great for journalists who already hold themselves to higher standards of quality."
— Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed founder, quoted by Forbes
Digital First Media editors’ description of the impediments to “getting the job done,” summed up in a word cloud (via A Lot Still To Do | Digital First)
Perhaps instead of killing stories he didn’t like about the sale of the company and trying to be seen as some sort of digital visionary by holding press conferences at the Academy of Natural Sciences, giving free rent to start-up companies who play ping pong on the 5th floor at 400 N. Broad, creating a poorly-launched tablet and worrying about apps that make a few dollars, [CEO Greg] Osberg should be focused on properly staffing the newspapers in a manner that will allow more copies to be sold."
— Philadelphia newspaper guild leaders, protesting 19 layoffs today, after 21 buyouts
Google made $37.9 billion in 2011; Newspapers made $24 billion in advertising and about $34 billion overall.
More and more newspapers are erecting paywalls, thinking they are zoos filled with scarce, exotic animals when in reality they’re more like puppy mills in a land of strays."
— Wayne MacPhail, Giving up on newspapers
