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Silicon Valley VC Andreessen predicts massive growth in business of news media | ZDNet

Silicon Valley VC Andreessen predicts massive growth in business of news media | ZDNet | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Marc Andreessen is famous as an extremely successful investor in Silicon Valley startups and that means he knows a thing or two about a thing or two but probably not the business of news. His recent analysis of the news media business has not impressed those in the news business. 


Ryan Chittum at the Columbia Journalism Review said Andreessen “has some outlandish predictions about the future of the journalism business.”  


He picks apart Andreessen’s claim that the news industry will grow by 10 times to as much as 100 times over the next 20 years....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Tom Foremski links to a variety of critics of Andreessen's analysis of the news business.

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59% Of Journalists Worldwide Use Twitter, Up From 47% In 2012 [STUDY] | AllTwitter

59% Of Journalists Worldwide Use Twitter, Up From 47% In 2012 [STUDY] | AllTwitter | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

In a study titled “The New Normal for News,”Oriella PR Network surveyed more than 500 journalists spanning 14 countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US).


The main finding? Digital media is more entrenched than ever before.


Oriella’s Global Digital Journalism Study 2013, the organization’s sixth annual investigation into the role and impact of digital media in newsrooms and news-gathering worldwide, reveals some interesting insights about tech age journalists. A few poignant highlights...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Shows how digital the job is for journalists.

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