Does sponsored content suspend credibility in your eyes? Before you answer that, let's take a look at the issues. In the spirit of full disclosure - I received the draft report for review directly from Forrester. Since both Josh Bernoff and Jeremiah Owyang are analysts I read, follow, and quote, I r...

The discussion about micro-payments and "pay to read" goes round and round because it ignores a basic fact. Most people, most of the time, do not read newspapers. They view, scan and search newspapers. Selling words to viewers, scanners and searchers is hard, but since viewers and scanners are alway...

This is one in an occasional series on MediaShift where I discuss issues in-depth with thought leaders in online media. The format has changed to give you a profile of the person, as well as more of our dialogue. If you have suggestions for future Q&A s or want to participate yourself, drop me a...

New York Times, one of the most widely read websites on the web is planning to make access to its online content paid once again. NYtimes used to follow paid subscription model for its content till two years back when it made the content open and free. The idea was to test out advertising revenues b...

While banks, the world over, are going bust, getting bailed out, or facing the worst economic crisis the world has seen this side of World War II, if someone tells us one particular bank is insulated from the crisis and then goes to explain the reasons for that bank’s marvelously rosy future, ...

The quote is from Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion.  Keep in mind, he wrote this in 1922, not 2002. This insistent and ancient belief that truth is not earned, but inspired, revealed, supplied gratis, comes out very plainly in our economic prejudices as readers of newspapers. We expect t...

Kara Swisher and Rafat Ali are reporting yet another injection of funds into the blogging market segment. This time its the turn for Silicon Alley Media, the parent company of Silicon Alley Insider. Silicon Alley Media is founded by Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman, and Henry Blodget. Henry Blodget is no...

Here’s what little I know about David Sullivan — he’s a journalist in Philadelphia — I believe a copy editor — and primarily a person of print lineage — and new to blogging. And in his first week of blogging about the newspaper business — and keep in mind, S...

It’s time for the ubiquitous “best of 2007″ lists, so why not one for Copyblogger? I’ll go ahead and do a round-up of the year’s best-received posts, with a bit of commentary on what was notable from each month. So, if you missed anything from 2007, here’s a secon...