By: Martin Langeveld
Wow, that New Yorker piece is fabulous. I love this part: “Stand by to crash.”
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I am working with MediaNews on this project. A few points: – The totality of this service, both in technology and content, is not yet public and will anyway evolve over time. So comparing it to...
View ArticleBy: Matt Mireles
@Stephen I see your point, but I still don’t get the economic logic for the end user. Why in god’s name would a reader spend presumably hundreds (or even $10’s) of dollars to buy a piece of hardware to...
View ArticleBy: links for 2009-03-08 — contentious.com
[…] Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper” » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pus… It’s difficult to imagine a lot of enthusiasm greeting the i-News concept. Among the grounds for...
View ArticleBy: mnmears
Again, why are we reinventing the horse? If it’s true that printing and delivery of a newspaper is the biggest (or second biggest) cost for publishers, why aren’t they tapping into into home computers,...
View ArticleBy: Stephen Keating
Matt, A quick response on the economics, via Kevin Reichard on http://www.MinnPost.com, where this conversation is also taking place: “Giving the reader a customized news feed and selling ads around it...
View ArticleBy: Planuojama leisti individualizuotus laikraščius « Martynas Žilionis
[...] Pranešama, kad NewsMedia Group Amerikoje planuoja leisti individualizuotus laikraščius ir taip susigrąžinti bent dalį auditorijos, kuri nuolat mažėja dėl populiarėjančių naujienų portalų...
View ArticleBy: 090309 Newspaper Links | johnsumser.com: Recruiting News and Views
[…] Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper”"Haven’t we seen this before? Yes indeed. It was in 1939 that radio station W9XZY, owned by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...
View ArticleBy: Back to the future for newspaper delivery | SCOTT ANGER
[...] you can imagine, the announcement has been greeted by ridicule and snickers. The Neiman Journalism Lab mentions the efforts by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and its radio station to delivery the...
View ArticleBy: Saving newspapers with ‘print-at-home’ and custom PDFs | csmonitor.com
[...] the Nieman Journalism Lab’s Martin Langeveld pokes some holes in the plan, most notably that this model has been tried before – in the 1930s. Why on earth [...]
View ArticleBy: I-News: the newspaper you print at home « Virtualjournalist
[…] Posted by Anthony Salveggi on March 9, 2009 Big ups to Martin Langeveld, who critiques MediaNews Group’s initiative to create a customized newspaper for delivery on your p…. […]
View ArticleBy: Newspaper Company Wants to Gain Back Readers By Printing Customized Papers
[…] Martin Langeveld discusses the history – and failure – of personalized and faxed newspapers on the Nieman Journalism Lab blog in some more […]
View ArticleBy: Martin Langeveld
Stephen Keating writes: “Suppose that the newspaper your father loves stopped publishing on certain days of the week. But your father could get his favorite sections (or columnists, etc.) printed at...
View ArticleBy: Paid Content : MediaNews Touts 'Personalized' Newspaper Experiment;...
[...] post on the Nieman Journalism Lab blog offers a good deal more skepticism about MediaNews project, comparing it to previous ill-fated [...]
View ArticleBy: Print Your Own Paper « The Media Six
[...] this radical idea has not hit without its critics. The Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University has already voiced some opposition. (The author notes at the end of his criticism that he...
View ArticleBy: I-News Experiment To Print Your Own Newspaper At Home ~ The Blade by Ron...
[...] Old advertisement source [...]
View ArticleBy: Stephen Keating
Martin, You seemed more optimistic about the industry’s ability to innovate a year ago… “What’s great about the industry is that everything is done in real time. Tomorrow’s paper, we haven’t even...
View ArticleBy: Martin Langeveld
Stephen, Rather ironically, that link doesn’t work, since the story in question is behind a pay wall. I did say that, in the context of reflecting back on my thirty years in the business. It’s what...
View ArticleBy: Dan Pacheco
Quick question for everone. When a news stories appears about you, a company or organization you are involved in, or something you want to save for later — and you find it first online — what’s the...
View ArticleBy: Not Another Mindshare Blog | Retro-engineering the future
[...] than spend the time working this out, this article does the thinking for [...]
View ArticleBy: A giant digital copier: individuated news, Océ-style » Nieman Journalism Lab
[...] pointed out a few weeks ago with some puzzlement the plans for “individuated news” announced by MediaNews Group. Because that scheme involves requiring readers print their [...]
View ArticleBy: A giant digital copier: individuated news, Océ-style :Newspaper Ad Rate
[...] pointed out a few weeks ago with some puzzlement the plans for “individuated news” announced by MediaNews Group. Because that scheme involves requiring readers print their own [...]
View ArticleBy: Michael Lieberman
Thought this might be of interest–We are currently handling the archive of Austin Cooley, the inventor of the rayphoto device which dates back to the mid 1920’s. The issue then was that the technology...
View ArticleBy: Future of Direct Marketing and Newspapers is Personalization | Nuze.me
[...] personalized newspaper and direct mail offerings possible and feasible to deliver. For example, Microsoft has come up with a “I-News” ” …. MediaNews Group, the fourth-largest [...]
View ArticleBy: Gutenberg 2 le Retour | Pour ceux qui aiment le Net
[...] jour de cette annonce Martin Langeveld, blogueur du Nieman Journalism Lab (Harvard) a fait remarqué que ce genre d’expérience a toujours échoué; la première [...]
View ArticleBy: I-News. OMG. Stupidest Idea Ever | Laird Farquharson
[...] reported by bizjournals.com and niemanlab.org (and others), MediaNews Group has announced plans for “I-News” or “individuated [...]
View ArticleBy: 島田範正のIT徒然 » よくわからない朝日新聞「News Plaza」
[...] そこでハーバード大学ニーマン・ジャーナリズムラボのブログに新聞業界歴の長いMartin Langeveldは、カスタマイズされていようとFax新聞を歓迎できるようなイメージはもてない、と記します。その理由は①プリントカートリッジの支出がばかにならない②専用装置に金を払う人がいるか、とし、第三に「Serendipity」が失われると...
View ArticleBy: 090309 Newspaper Links | HR Examiner with John Sumser
[...] Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper” “Haven’t we seen this before? Yes indeed. It was in 1939 that radio station W9XZY, owned by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...
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