Posts Tagged ‘David Carr’

After he dropped in to cover mediabistro Circus, Beet.TV’s Andy Plesser headed over to yet another media conference happening during this busy Internet Week in New York, the IWantMedia conference.

Plesser asked Craig Newmark whether his list helped kill the newspaper as we know it. Newmark calls that kind of talk “urban legend” and New York Times media columnist David Carr agrees, sort of, saying Craigslist may have “shot the back end off of newspapers but if Craig hadn’t done it somebody else would have.”

mediabistro.com’s managing editor Rebecca Fox is at the MPA’s “Magazines 24/7″ conference today in Times Square. She’ll bring us posts from the one-day event which brings together thought leaders, digital pioneers, journalists, and reps from all sides of the magazine business.

Speakers include YouTube’s Jordan Hoffner, Marketwatch Founder Larry Kramer and David Carr, the New York Times media columnist.

The event will also feature the MPA Digital Awards Luncheon, honoring digital excellence for consumer magazines.

Check back with WebNewser all day for updates…

The International Herald Tribune has an analysis of what could arguably be called the original new media station.

The fact that MTV doesn’t show videos much anymore is one of the oldest jokes in the cable TV industry. But as media columnist David Carr points out, they’ve also built quite a successful following as a reality show and lifestyle-programming pioneer. Yet the question remains: is MTV still relevant in a world of YouTube, cell phones that play video, and on-demand television?

Obviously, MTV thinks so. In the article, MTV President Christina Norman suggests that “there [are] few media brands better-suited to coming up with content for cellphones,” and she added that “the virtual communities around shows like Laguna Beach have created opportunities for both viewers and advertisers.”

Do They Still Want Their MTV? A Changing Format (via IHT)