A few more thoughts on Patch.com
My Thursday posting of an e-mail from a Patch.com local editor who considers herself overworked and underappreciated brought an unusually strong reaction from Media Nation readers — many of them, no...
View ArticleA great day for the Huffington Post’s investors
Arianna Huffington My theory as to why Arianna Huffington would sell her successful website to a troubled company like AOL is that her investors wanted to cash in and weren’t particularly interested...
View ArticleWill HuffPo prove to be AOL’s MySpace?
Click for full cartoon at Politico Does AOL have a MySpace problem? You may recall that MySpace was a social-media phenomenon when Rupert Murdoch bought it back in 2005 for $580 million. It wasn’t...
View ArticleIndies fight back against Patch
Thirty independent community news sites have banded together to tell the world, in effect, “We are not Patch.” The project, called Authentically Local, includes such well-known sites as Baristanet,...
View ArticleAOL would be profitable without Patch
Talk about burying the lede. The New York Times today reports on the latest regarding AOL’s long, slow slide into oblivion. Near the end is this: Other ideas include closing Patch, AOL’s local news...
View ArticleSalvaging something from the rubble of Patch
If you haven’t heard AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong’s nauseating conference call with Patch employees — complete with the mid-call firing of Patch creative director Abel Lenz, who had the audacity...
View ArticleGlobe cuts Your Town staffing in half
Just catching up with this. Jon Chesto of the Boston Business Journal reports that The Boston Globe’s Your Town sites are being trimmed by six correspondents — approximately half the staff. Your Town,...
View ArticleEzra Klein and the problem with top-down control
Ezra Klein This commentary was published earlier at the Nieman Journalism Lab. What should a 21st-century news organization look like? A single entity, run from the top, with a common set of values? Or...
View ArticleThe story behind the Barry Crimmins documentary
Barry Crimmins (via Twitter) Don Aucoin’s feature on the new Barry Crimmins documentary in today’s Boston Globe goes into harrowing detail about the sexual abuse Crimmins suffered at the hands of a...
View ArticleBarry Crimmins gets his overdue due in ‘Call Me Lucky’
Barry Crimmins in “Call Me Lucky” What can you say about a film that stars someone you know and admire telling the world about being raped repeatedly — and nearly killed — when he was 3 years old?...
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