James Sturdivant
Signs and Symbols of a Shrinking Craft
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The picture is poignant. In a New York Times article this week, there's a photo of a handwritten poster illustrating the inverted pyramid for the staff of DeWitt Clinton High [...]
Is Yahoo asking itself the right questions?
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After the news broke about Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr, I paid a visit to Yahoo.Com (it has been quite a while) to get a sense of what all these aggressive [...]
Time Spent With Print Still a Compelling Argument for Advertisers
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It's always kind of fun when some disruptive news drops that shakes up the "print is dying" narrative. This week, it was a research report from McKinsey and Company, which [...]
Bad e-mail management delivers only confusion
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The other day, I decided to change my account settings with NASDAQ OMX's GlobeNewswire. I was getting way more e-mails than I wanted, and most were not relevant to my [...]
Is being offensive online the latest in shock marketing?
Lately, there have been a string of offensive ads forcing corporations to retract and apologize—among them an ad for Ford India featuring tied-up women, a Hyundai ad joking about suicide, [...]
Back in March, my Publishing Business Group colleagues and I paid a visit to the Brown Printing Company plant near Allentown, Pa. According to their website, Brown prints over 180 [...]
How do you get employees and partners to build an entirely new series of conferences and expos, all by volunteering their skills and services in their spare time? Business-to-business media [...]
Philadelphia: Publishing ‘Wit’
Throughout the month of June, Hidden City Philadelphia, a website devoted to writing, photography, and the city's "dormant and hidden places," is holding a series of artistic happenings at derelict [...]
Learning to Be a Good Gatekeeper
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Ron Matejko's blog last week caused a bit of a stir, in its suggestion that the New York Times should not have taken down its paywall during the height of [...]
A Newspaper’s Decline, Writ Large
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A photo essay by photographer Will Steacy chronicling the decline of the Philadelphia Inquirer's newsroom has gotten a lot of attention in the last week, with articles in Paid Content [...]