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A founding father of online journalism, 15-year-old Slate.com now finds itself in a whole new world of aggregation, content farming and SEO. We spoke to Slate editor David Plotz about how the “Slate sensibility” has helped distinguish and extend… more
The South by Southwest interactive media festival kicked off this weekend and it’s as inspiring and overwhelming as you would imagine. Our editor reports from the scene in Austin, Texas. more
Publishing
Is Rupert Murdoch’s new “iPad newspaper” traditional media’s saving grace, or a last-ditch effort to monetize online content the old-fashioned way? Spafax USA’s Jose Lizarraga reviews The Daily and finds lots to like in a heavily curated… more
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Bob Garfield is a perfect fit for Sparksheet. For 25 years, he wrote Advertising Age’s AdReview column, where he surveyed the 30-second TV spot. He is the co-host of NPR’s On The Media, and his new book The Chaos… more
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Blogger, professor and What Would Google Do? author Jeff Jarvis is America’s shrewdest media iconoclast. In an interview for Sparksheet, media scholar Valérie Bélair-Gagnon asked him what Google would do with its own airline or magazine… more
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As The New Yorker's first Web editor, Blake Eskin has led the iconic magazine brand into the digital age. We spoke about the challenges of maintaining editorial excellence - and earning ROI - with blogs, podcasts, social media...and the… more
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From the iPad and Kindle to digital barcodes and iPhone apps, the magazine industry has seen a striking number of new developments in the last year. We talked to journalism professor and media critic Susan Currie Sivek about custom publishing,… more
We spent a weekend this month at the BlogWorld conference in Las Vegas. The global gathering brought together everyone from corporate bloggers and PR professionals, to travel journalists and Twitter-happy… more
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The ongoing shakeup in print media has changed the game for advertisers, journalists and consumers. We spoke to world-renowned media economist Robert G. Picard about branded content, online… more