Journalism Archives - Dave Margulius

Lifting Paywalls: A Public Service That’s Also Great For Business

‘We’ve lifted the paywall on our coverage’ has become a common phrase lately, whether for hurricanes, fires, mass shootings, elections,

Sometimes when you know a city really well, and you see some detailed data about it, it just makes sense

Today I spent a couple of hours in a basement archive belonging to the New York Times. It was a

Think these over before meeting with potential funders from the tech world. More and more journalist-entrepreneurs are looking to Silicon

In January 1984, I got offered a summer reporting internship at the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk Virginia. On hearing about it,

The recent Online News Association event in Austin was great – full of passionate, committed local journalist-entrepreneurs all trying to figure

I recently spent 24 hours in Pensacola, and stumbled across a ghostly reminder of how far local journalism has fallen

They’re facing a lot of change, and the same tough questions. Google ‘what do teachers and journalists have in common’

Paywalls have dramatically failed journalism. In an attempt to adapt to the Internet, American newspapers of all sizes have erected

Why does The New York Times only have two million digital subscribers, when there are two billion smartphone users on

Note: due to low viewership, I’ve decided not to go forward with this experiment… its not worth the time. While

Newspapers (the printed kind) may be on the ropes, but they want you to know that they’re not dead yet.

I woke up this weekend to the news The Times had finally sold off The Boston Globe to a local

I wrote this article in 1989 for one of the first issues of PC Computing magazine, which started as a

I wrote this article in 1989 for (I believe) the inaugural issue of PC Computing magazine, which started as a