Please join Citilista and EchoParkOnline as we take part in Coastal Clean Up Day at the Echo Park Lake! What does picking up trash all the way in Echo Park have to do with the ocean? Well according to Ida Talalla, who is organizing the Echo Park clean up in partnership with Central City Action [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Newspapers finally fight back
First New York Times Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet (former LA Times big wig) told the obvious truth about Fox News (now that’s what I want in a journalist), and then the LA Times makes a guest appearance on Project Runway.
Newspapers will not go quietly into that dark night. And these are stands and smart [...]
The reader is not an advesary who needs to climb a wall to get to your website
Editor and Publisher is running a series of in-depth stories that go over and over and over again how newspapers can start charging readers for access to their online content.
Their opening paragraph is indicative of their misunderstanding of the situation and their small world view:
“On the day Michael Jackson died, the Los Angeles Times [...]
Mass Marketing doesn’t work for individuals with choices
At one time three channels were enough. Not so long ago, you could only buy one or two kinds of flour – now there are a dozen types at Whole Foods.
It’s not that people were all that different than they are today. You watched either Lawrence Welk or “I Love Lucy” or “The Munsters” [...]
Bakersfield Californian considers closing its community web sites instead of giving them to the community
The pioneering spirit that got Bakersfield Californian into online social networking is gone. The paper is considering closing local community events and classifieds site Bakotopia, and the Bakersfield Voice.
“The social networks have really never made us money,” said Wells, the paper’s ad, marketing, circ and operations VP.
The Californian began selling [...]
Communities will have to supply their own journalists; opportunities abound
“You don’t need to work at the L.A. Times anymore to be a significant journalist in L.A.” said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, at a Sept. 2 presentation at USC Annenberg.
Instead of celebrating the ability to interact with the people most affected by the day’s events, instead [...]
Every day more and more people are going online
In 1998 Bart Simpson went to the mall to get his ear pierced. As he walked, store after store was a Starbucks. Some were being closed and turned into Starbucks. When he finally found the place to get his ear pierced, the guys says have to do this quick, in five minutes Starbucks is taking [...]
Jounalism 3.0
For 500 years, those who could afford a printing press had access to influence and power.
Pulitzer, Hearst, Chandler and others bought newspapers to influence local and national politics while choosing all the news that was fit to print and charging readers to see the information. Newspapers in general don’t want a conversation with readers and [...]
The Daily Citilista
Citilista is a reminiscent of the community newspapers that used to serve every neighborhood.
The difference is that in this digital age that disposable product turns into a permanent, searchable online collection of every trivial tidbit that makes your town special.
While the main audience are the locals who provide much of the content, the [...]
Crowdsourced, online newspaper sells for $25 million to owner of LA Galaxy, Examiner newspapers, Staples Center
NowPublic, an online collaborative newspaper, was bought for $25 million by Clarity Media, owner of Washington D.C. Examiner, The San Francisco Examiner and Examiner.com, a network of local sites. Philip Anschutz owns Clarity, O2 Arena, part of the LA Lakers and Michael Jackson before his death/
Other potential buyers included AP, Fox News, Glam Media and [...]