All entries tagged: economy
Newspapers better hope Nick Denton’s wrong on advertising in ‘09
Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker Media, has backed up his recent dire forecast of a potential 40-percent decline in advertising with a set of “doom-mongering” charts and graphs. His focus, naturally, is on Internet advertising — and he took his premonition to heart yesterday by consolidating two of his sites and putting a third up [...]
Morning Links: November 12, 2008
— Blog company Six Apart announces layoffs. But interestingly, they repeat the argument I mentioned in my talk with Jeff Howe: that a declining economy is good for innovations in new media:
We’ve been reminded lately that blogging was born out of the last recession in 2001-2002, and that during tough economic times creative voices look [...]
