According to Captain Obvious, the news media landscape has changed dramatically in the last decade.  It seems like every few days a media outlet is announcing cuts, putting up a pay wall, declaring bankruptcy, or taking other drastic measures to stay in the black.  As media “geeks,” we at Goff Public work hard to analyze [...]

It’s almost the beginning of a new year, which means it is time once again to predict what might happen in the media world here in Arbitron market #16 – also known as the Twin Cities. Change will remain in the air in 2012 for both traditional and new media.  Media companies face content and [...]

A growing number of online news outlets (most recently the St. Cloud Times) have started using the Facebook platform in their reader comment sections.  This could be a huge breakthrough, as it could signal the end of anonymous postings.  Under this new platform, readers must have a Facebook account in order to post a comment.  [...]

During the Civil War, Chicago Times Editor Wilbur F. Storey supposedly told one of his reporters, “Telegraph fully all news you can get, and when there is no news, send rumors.” With orders like that, it is no wonder that government and military leaders, among others, became suspicious of what they read in the newspapers [...]

A recent PEW Research Center survey shows that Americans are spending less time reading newspapers, but more time consuming news (an average of 70 minutes per day). It’s no surprise that the growing number of digital news options caused the change. The GH Spin wants to find out how you get the news. Please take [...]

Charlotte Hall, editor of the Orlando Sentinel, recently offered a refreshing perspective on the state of journalism. In the digital age, she claims that newsrooms have become an even more important part of the public discourse. Social media and live chats provide readers an opportunity to interact with reporters and enrich their news experience, according [...]

This morning I learned about the Minnesota Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Pawlenty’s unallotments not through a traditional news source but through Twitter. The past two weekends, I avidly followed the DFL and GOP conventions through Twitter. Even though I didn’t attend either convention, I knew the instant endorsements were made thanks to my fellow [...]

Online comments are supposed to stimulate an “open dialog” about issues in blogs, news stories, and other Internet forums. But when comments are anonymous, they often disintegrate into a cesspool of hateful, nasty words directed at the author or subject of the article. A Cleveland judge recently discovered that anonymous postings are not always so [...]

Over the past decade, the Internet has transformed news consumption into a social experience. Readers can now participate in the news process by sharing articles that they find interesting. This dissemination of news often takes place through social media. According to a recently released survey by the Pew Research Center, 52% of online news consumers [...]

It’s widely held that the format of news content and advertisements printed on thin paper, delivered to our homes or offices, and lying around the local greasy spoon or barber shop – something which used to carry the dignified name “newspaper” – is like a dinosaur near the end of the Cretaceous Period. We’re just [...]