Ezra Klein Archive: Journalism
Is the NYT's web site worth billions?
If you assume "average revenue per user" is the right way to measure value, and the valuation on the Huffington Post is even in the general ballpark, then that's what you get: About 35% of the HuffPo’s users come form...
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| February 15, 2011; 9:29 AM ET |
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Don Draper: Scourge of business, hero of information
At the beginning of Ken Auletta's "Googled," Auletta talks with Mel Karmazin, then the CEO of Viacom. Karmazin is aghast at Google's campaign to measure the effectiveness of advertising by tallying clicks. "I want a sales person in the...
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| December 6, 2010; 9:00 AM ET |
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Blogs vs. articles
Farhad Manjoo's piece on the collapsing distinction between blog posts and Web articles (or even normal articles) hasn't attracted as much bloggy navel-gazing as it deserves, so let me try to add some. I write both blog posts and articles....
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| October 21, 2010; 12:01 PM ET |
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Zuckerberg on 'The Social Network'
Mark Zuckerberg's response to "The Social Network" is quite perfect, and gets at some broader problems in both the fictional and the factual media: As he says, it's really peculiar that the movie was obsessive about accurately portraying his T-shirts...
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| October 20, 2010; 9:33 AM ET |
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Do opinionated outlets have a hiring advantage?
I was interested to see that Peter Goodman, one of the New York Times' marquee economic writers, was heading to the Huffington Post. But I was more interested to read why: "For me it's a chance to write with a...
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| September 22, 2010; 11:04 AM ET |
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Do the news media spend too much time on news?
The graph above comes from Pew's study of the media's coverage of health-care reform, and on first blush, it makes the media look, well, not great, but not awful. There really were a lot of stories devoted to the...
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| June 22, 2010; 9:06 AM ET |
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