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PEW, there’s cable in my internet
The PEW Project for excellence in journalism recently published its annual survey on the state of the news media. The report framed readers of online news media as mysterious strangers with dubious...
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obtruded upon the public – the spectator, speculations, and the shift to digital
Knowledge, instead of being bound up in books and kept in libraries and retirements, is thus obtruded upon the publick –Spectator no. 507 on the Spectator, 1711 One imagines the libraries and...
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newspapers and paper news: the legacy of the hot news doctrine and AP v INS
The facts do not owe their origin to an act of authorship. –Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Feist v Rural Telephone, 1991) But does the hunt, the research, the interviews? Or perhaps its organization into...
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bloomberg and the drive to commodify the news
From our first day in business, Bloomberg was making news, with numbers –Mike Bloomberg and a modest ambition While most news organizations today are listing in the high seas of the digital world,...
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getting started with earned media
There was a time when daily prices for US Treasuries were hand-written on two or three sheets of paper from a yellow legal-pad and run by messenger to the Associated Press and Dow Jones. The AP needed...
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newspapers, paper news, and technology
London Review of Books and a startlingly nice piece on the intersection of news, newspapers, paper news, and technology. And a quote from the editors at The National Review: observations on...
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expert networks, controls, and the SEC
Is the smoke clearing for expert networks? From a modest hotel room in the Omni Shoreham in Washington DC, the SEC gathered a smattering of reporters, lobbyists, and others for a best practices...
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decimalization, make-or-take, and the markets today
Some 33% of US stock trading activity takes place outside of exchanges. Four years ago, only 20% of trading did. What does that mean? Now, only two-thirds of trading actually sets the price of a stock...
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hot news doctrine, preempted by copyright law
The plaintiffs’ claim against the defendant for ‘hot news’ misappropriation of the plaintiff financial firms’ recommendations to clients and prospective clients as to trading in corporate securities is...
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machine readable news, redux
News stories glue portfolio managers and analysts to their screens. Each story feeds into a positive or negative bias. What if I could automate that? What if I could read everything as it comes out and...
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